Юридическая фирма VERBA LEGAL

All practices

Real Estate. Land. Construction

Our Practice

Our legal experts are adept in orchestrating investment projects, including the appraisal of territorial potential and appeal, discerning restrictions and encumbrances on assets, orchestrating transactions, offering all-around project support, and dispensing legal advice on pertinent legislations to our firm's patrons.

The scope of the practice's engagements spans over 60 regions of the Russian Federation, with an aggregate value exceeding 200 billion RUB. Our clientele encompasses sector-specific enterprises, infrastructural conglomerates, and civic organizations engaged in ventures across the industrial, domestic and inbound tourism, agricultural, and residential construction sectors.

Services

Conducting legal due diligence for properties of diverse functional designations, encompassing production, public-business, leisure, residential, and agricultural use properties.

Structuring and facilitating transactions involving real estate assets, including the preparation of contractual agreements, engagement in negotiation processes, and aiding in governmental registration.

Assessment of the urban planning potential of land plots, identification of the limits for new construction and reconstruction of objects within the boundaries of the plots.

Development of roadmaps for formalizing land and property relations, overcoming barriers to investment project implementation, including the lifting of infrastructural limitations, amendments to land use and zoning regulations, alteration of permitted land uses, etc., with legal support to achieve the outcomes specified in the roadmaps.

Drafting assessments concerning the construction and utilization of real estate assets and natural resource exploitation.

Engaging with state authorities and local governance bodies, establishing a collaborative dialogue with interested parties.

Structuring of investment projects and legal support in the implementation of construction, reconstruction, major repairs, and modern adaptation of cultural heritage sites, including support for transactions, collaboration with key project stakeholders, preparation of contract drafts for the delegation of responsibilities to the technical client, design and survey contracts, as well as construction and installation works, participation in all phases of project condition approvals.

Experience Highlights

The Firm's attorneys performed legal due diligence for a land parcel and an office center under construction in the Khoroshevsky District of Moscow, expediting the property sale and purchase transaction.

Acting for one of the largest dairy producers, the Firm's legal team carried out legal due diligence for agricultural land plots and shares in the common ownership of such plots, encompassing over 1,600 hectares in the Kostroma Region.

Our consultants provided guidance to a client, a major textile manufacturer, on production expansion issues, including the reconstruction of existing production premises, acquiring adjoining land plots from state ownership, and building new facilities, with modifications to the Moscow Urban Planning Code.

The Firm's attorneys undertook legal due diligence of a cultural heritage site in the Central District of St. Petersburg, aiding in the site's adaptation for contemporary use.

Our team facilitated a project to establish a joint venture for constructing and managing a maritime terminal in the Far East, with sections to be situated on land, in internal sea waters, and in the territorial sea.

The Firm's lawyers supported transactions for the acquisition of land plots and the structures within their perimeters in a resort town in the Krasnodar Territory, preparing the contractual documentation for constructing a health resort complex.

For an all-Russian public organization and a charity foundation, the Firm's lawyers rendered a legal assessment concerning the establishment of a memorial complex in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Territory, considering the unique features of the site and relevant restrictions.

The Firm's lawyers appraised the urban development potential of land plots in the Yaroslavl and Sakhalin Regions to determine the feasibility of building a shipyard within their confines.

For a prominent real estate developer, the Firm's legal team conducted an asset review of a major Moscow developer, encompassing a full work cycle, including the land bank of the corporate group, ongoing, and prospective projects.

Our team supported the formation of joint ventures for constructing and operating hotel complexes and attendant infrastructure in the Primorsky Territory, the Kaliningrad and Kemerovo Regions as part of the “Tourism and Hospitality Industry” national project.

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