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Complex property transactions

 Strictly speaking, complex real estate refers to the interweaving of intangible volumes that cannot be satisfied with a basic legal organisation.

By extension, complex property transactions are those involving multiple specialised professionals and in which various legal issues and economic interests – both conflicting and converging – intersect and overlap.

These operations are the heart of our profession and epitomises our know-how. The majority of the firm’s solicitors devote their time to these operations, which has enabled ALCAIX, already a key player at local level, to be entrusted with this type of major files throughout France.

Housing promotion and co-ownership

An in-house department of two solicitors and about fifteen associates is in charge of managing new building programmes: an average of fifty are handled simultaneously, from the drafting of the co-ownership regulations to the signing of off-plan sales before completion agreements (VEFAs).

Thanks to the efficiency of this team, our firm is able to meet the expectations of its clients, large national or local developers, in terms of deadlines, volumes of programmes and lots, with a capacity of almost 500 notifications per week.

Leasing and real estate financing

The least financial institutions expect from their solicitors is the legal security of their contracts and guarantees.

When this legal security comes up against the borrower’s desire to assume certain risks, ALCAIX does not simply detect these risks. As often as possible, we endeavour to add reliable alternative solutions to our analyses, with well thought-out proposals presented to the stakeholders in an educational manner.

Thus, when ALCAIX acts as solicitor for a bank or a lessor, far from acting as a brake on operations, the firm always intervenes with a concern to safeguard the relationship between the financial institution and its client.

This approach is also applied when we are called upon to draft a structured loan, particularly in managing the relationship between a mezzanine lender, the Seniors, and the borrower.

Institutional real estate

ALCAIX regularly advises real estate professionals and has a perfect command of the practices required to carry out transactions for institutional investors (setting up datarooms, analysing and drawing up audit reports, negotiating and drafting agreements and contracts) when it comes to real estate assets for tertiary, commercial, industrial or residential use.

Our solid experience as well as our teams dedicated to each case enable us to deal with property, construction, urban planning and tax issues in a responsive manner.

Land use planning and public law

A forerunner in this field, ALCAIX assists and advises private and public project owners on all their development operations, the setting up of complex operations and the choice of town planning authorisations.

ALCAIX also supports its clients in the context of private or public competitions and tenders.

ALCAIX provides this support thanks to dedicated and specialised teams, who work on each case under the supervision of a Senior partner. The firm offers its clients the benefit of its experience gained over more than 30 years working in these fields, while participating in most of the major development operations in the Lyon Metropolitan Area.