Project Developers & Real Estate
We guide project developers, property developers and investors from land acquisition through construction contracts to exit, on solid legal footing and with an eye on the schedule.
From the first acquisition review to handover to the investor, we cover the legal decisions that shape your projects.
Foreign capital in German locations, German developers in foreign markets: we think in both directions.
German Companies Abroad
German developers building or investing abroad face unfamiliar land and permitting regimes.
International Companies in Germany
International investors and funds financing or acquiring German projects need orientation in German real estate and construction law.
Construction projects rarely fail on the idea. They fail on delays, disputed change orders and securities that do not hold when it counts.
We work along your milestones. Acquisition, financing and construction start interlock instead of blocking each other.
We test guarantees, land charges and contractual penalties for enforceability. What is on paper must also carry in court.
Acquisition, construction contract, financing and letting stay in one hand. You speak with the same partners who have known the project from the start.
Foreign capital, international construction partners, unfamiliar legal systems: we coordinate the parties involved and keep the contracts consistent.
Bring us in early. We review the structure before the purchase agreement reaches the notary, and accompany the project through to handover.
That depends on tax burden, liability and existing agreements. In an asset deal you acquire the land directly through a notarial purchase agreement; in a share deal you take over the shares in the property-holding company together with all its liabilities. We review real estate transfer tax, legacy agreements and the municipal pre-emption right and recommend the structure that fits your project.
The Broker and Property Developer Ordinance prescribes when and in what amount you may demand purchase price instalments from the buyer and which securities you must provide. We draft the agreement so that instalment plan, guarantees and construction progress fit together and sales can proceed on a sound legal basis.
Through clear deadlines with contractual penalty provisions, an orderly change order procedure and valuable performance and warranty securities. Whether the VOB/B or the German Civil Code construction contract is the better basis is a decision we take with a view to your role in the project.
A forward deal secures the sale before the building is finished and gives you early planning certainty for the financing. Purchase agreement and construction contract must be cleanly interlocked: in forward funding the buyer co-finances the construction costs, in a forward sale the buyer pays only on completion. We structure both variants and the handover mechanics that go with them.
