Real Estate Assets & Resources
Real Estate
Development Regulatory and Environmental
Project Development and Privatisations
Energy and Natural Resources
Real Estate
Consistently recognized as a leading force, the department stands out for its unique breadth and depth of coverage across the entire real estate realm. The team is dedicated in pursuing outstanding business outcomes backed by solid legal argumentation and applies a thorough 360o approach to assets and development scenarios. The detailed approach allows clients to factor in the relative perspectives of sponsors, financiers, governmental agencies and affected stakeholders.
The firm advises on all aspects of investment in real estate are supported, including zoning, planning, construction, development, real estate finance, environmental issues, licensing, and acts for clients within categories with varying requirements, including developers, contractors, financial and strategic investors, lenders, governmental agencies, corporates, high net worth individuals.
In addition, the experience of the department is showcased by the range of asset and property configurations, types and sizes investigated, including opportunities in the urban, industrial, commercial, infrastructure, governmental, commercial, residential, hospitality-related and agricultural segments. In the complex interdisciplinary setting of projects of significant size, experts from other fields know we understand both the business and their concerns.
The firm is equally effective dealing with due diligence, transactional, advisory or enforcement work.
Development Regulatory and Environmental
The firm's niche expertise in spatial and urban planning, zoning, uses of land, regulatory development regimes and environmental issues makes its service offering unique. The firm has unparalleled experience advising clients on regulatory due diligence for real estate development and infrastructure development projects.
The key objective of our practice is to help identify opportunities, risks and limitations stemming from the legal and regulatory environment, that are likely to affect the feasibility of a project. This includes a thorough review of the fundamental suitability of an asset for its intended use, the key parameters affecting the size and scale of permitted works, as well as limitations on key design features. Timely identification of parameters limiting desired uses, or having an impact on the configuration, scale or mode of construction, can serve as a basis for assessing construction cost, timing, bankability and marketability.
We also routinely advise and support clients on planning, managing and implementing complex licensing procedures for their investments. Our work includes reviewing and contributing to applications, technical and environmental supporting documentation and other submissions to administrative bodies of various levels in respect of approvals relating to spatial plans, urban plans, construction, operating or special licenses.
The firm's teams are keenly familiar with the process of working efficiently side by side with the client's technical advisors and other experts to explore available options and validate conclusions on the factors likely to give rise to concerns on execution, or compatibility of a particular investment with mandatory norms.
Project Development and Privatisations
Alexiou - Kosmopoulos has an outstanding track record advising on, and bringing to successful close important projects and privatisations. The firm's substantial experience includes the first Greek PPP transaction and several privatizations (including Piraeus Port Authority and Astir Palace, both closed in 2016). The firm has been successful from whatever role or perspective it has acted; as lenders' counsel, sponsor/investor's counsel, lead co-seller counsel.
Our experience shows that leading significant, complex projects to success requires the parallel completion of a number of work streams. Transactional objectives tend to be more predictable than those relating to procurement, transparency or other regulatory compliance. More often than not, however, the most time-consuming aspects are those involving technical, regulatory and legal level maturity, or dealing with public opinion and controversy in the public arena.
The firm's work is comprehensive and consolidates unique experience dealing effectively with transactional, compliance, project development, execution and "soft" issues. The firm has achieved this by taking on an open, realistic, collaborative, transparent and proactive approach that is conducive to forging consensus, based on straight talking.
Energy and Natural Resources
Our team provides clients with advice across the full spectrum of energy industry sectors.
Our experience, combined with our strength in multiple disciplines, enables us to provide our clients with truly commercial and balanced legal advice on all aspects of energy projects, from the consenting and planning process, through to the construction, financing, operation, maintenance and, ultimately, their refinancing or sale. Our legal expertise includes project finance, regulatory matters, tax matters, litigation, corporate issues and reorganizations and restructurings.
Furthermore, we bring clients innovative solutions related to issues arising from acquisition, exploration, development and operation of natural resources projects and provide comprehensive compliance assistance in the natural resources context.
