Competence
Real Estate & Construction
SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz provides comprehensive advice to investors, project developers and construction companies on all issues of real estate law as well as construction and architectural law.
Range of services
Real Estate
- Real estate transactions, national and international
- Financing of real estate transactions
- Tax law and company law structuring
- Structuring and negotiating real estate joint ventures
- Structuring of sale and lease back transactions
- Acquisition or disposal of real estate in insolvency-related scenarios or from insolvency proceedings
Project Development & Construction
- Purchase of land
- Project and real estate development
- Advising on project and awarding structuring as well as on contract models
- Support regarding tenders
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts
- Legal advice during construction
- Assertion or defense of claims for defects (claim management)
- Review or justification of addenda
- Advising on the consequences of obstruction and extension of construction time
- Preparation and monitoring of acceptances
- Warranty management
- Advising in liability and crisis situations in construction
- Representation before courts and arbitration tribunals
- Accompanying of out-of-court mediation and reconciliation proceedings
Use and management of real estate
- Commercial tenancy law
- Real estate brokerage law
- Real estate-related public law
- Public-private partnerships
- Procedural and arbitration law
Client mandates (selection)
- VIB Vermögen AG in the context of the takeover by DIC Asset AG
- Büschl Group in connection with the acquisition of extensive properties in downtown Munich, including a listed former logistics center
- Büschl Group regarding the acquisition of a 50% stake by Bauwens
- Isaria Wohnbau AG on the sale of major real estate projects to Deutsche Wohnen
- Isaria Wohnbau AG on the sale of ONE Group to project developer Soravia
- IBI Group, Toronto, in the acquisition and development and disposition of a 1,300-apartment development; including the implementation of cross-country tax planning
- Advising ZUG Invest in the acquisition of the Galileo real estate development in Munich as well as the follow-on sale to an Austrian consortium
- Neo Capital on the mezzanine financing of a high-rise project in Frankfurt am Main
- Advising emodrom in the context of the establishment of an automotive Experience Center for Porsche at the Hockenheimring racetrack
Thinktank
Foreign Entities holding Real Estate in Germany must register in the German Transparency Register by 30 June 2023
The reporting obligations now include real estate in Germany held by foreign corporations and partnerships.