Real estate
The real estate market has many facets and changes continuously. Professional real estate investors have diversified geographically at a global basis, and have also moved beyond classical real estate assets (such as offices and retail property) into alternative real estate investments such as elderly/nursing homes and infrastructure, producing long-term, indexed fixed income streams. Non-professional real estate investors increasingly see their real estate assets as another means to finance their core activities and optimise their cash flow.
Professional and non-professional real estate players are confronted with various challenges such as prevention of tax leakage, adequate risk management and control, optimisation of real estate revenues, unlocking value from real estate, securing continued access to funding, creating added value and many more.
In addition, fast moving real estate markets are subject to highly diverse and complex regulations that can impact the structures under which real estate is developed, owned, financed and managed.
Top tier legal and tax advice from professionals with in-depth real estate industry expertise is thus key to creating value and competitive advantage.
PwC real estate legal specialists working closely together with our real estate tax team and other PwC real estate specialists on a daily basis.They assisting clients in managing their real estate portfolios efficiently by providing legal services related to:
- Real estate fund design and structuring (from investment and investor perspective)
- Bid support in the acquisition/sale process
- Acquisition and finance structuring
- Securitisation and bid models
- Sale-and-lease-back agreements
- Financial and operational leasing based on various rights in rem or in personam
- Deal negotiation and transaction assistance, including vendor or buyer due diligence and contract drafting
- Corporate law aspects including advice regarding choice of most appropriate legal vehicle, joint venture setup, optimisation of dividend distribution schemes, governance, and many more.
