Real estate investment is a major asset for both natural and legal persons. Its complexity requires technical know-how.

Lexlor assists its clients in all types of real estate transactions: acquisition, sale, rental of property, financing and construction of a real estate project. Lexlor provides its expertise to the client throughout the complexity of the project.

Our driving force is the profitability of a transaction and the efficiency of its structuring.

We work both on specific, one-off issues and on the strategy of a real estate project as a whole: transactional strategies, project development and management, management of a property portfolio, etc.

By analysing market trends and anticipating the effects of new regulations, we can offer you the best solutions for your real estate assets.

We also act in real estate litigation.

Our real estate activity is based on a real estate agent activity, the construction andacquisition of buildings (offices, hotels, warehouses, concessions, etc.).

At Lexlor, our lawyers base their action plan on their knowledge, experience and professional intuition.

Why use a real estate lawyer?

Any person who calls upon the services of a real estate lawyer benefits from :

• the guarantee of non-presentation of funds up to 35 million euros;
• the civil liability insurance taken out by the lawyer.

Our lawyers act as agents in real estate transactions and advise our clients on the management of their assets. Their mission is to define the best investment strategy to meet their clients’ needs. Our lawyers therefore take care of the management of their assets, which consists in particular of carrying out all the acquisition, sale and rental operations of the property or real estate portfolio entrusted to them. In addition, our lawyers deal with the management lease of businesses, the management of shares in real estate companies resulting in the allocation of premises or the management of shares in a company when the company’s assets include a building or a business.

Our lawyers are present at every stage of the management of your assets.

As access to bank finance becomes increasingly restricted, alternatives to disintegrating finance are emerging, opening up new possibilities for project owners (lenders, borrowers, real estate business providers). These alternatives can take the form of bond financing, loans granted by alternative investment funds or participatory real estate financing (in the form of loans, donations or financial securities).

In view of the risks and complexity of such operations, the assistance of a real estate professional with legal expertise is necessary for the effective and harmonious implementation of the project. Our lawyers will work with you as legal and real estate professionals to help you carry out your project, whether you are a French or foreign investor, a banking institution, a company (from multinationals to SMEs) or a real estate developer.

Our lawyers have solid expertise in real estate law, private equity and tax law, which enables them to apply their know-how in complex structured financing. They will support you throughout the entire project: from the legal and tax structuring of your transaction to the completion of the acquisition or disposal and its financing or refinancing.

The multiplicity of issues (new lifestyles, speed of construction, lower costs, efficiency, concern for the environment and the community) is confronted with the multiplication of rules governing the property market. In this context of constant change, LEXLOR’s mission is to provide you with the best legal solution for your project.
LEXLOR is present at every stage to advise and support the project owner (investors, owners, developers, lessors, lessees) in complex construction or renovation operations. It carries out the necessary acts in terms of drafting contracts, and monitors construction operations and any litigation procedures.
Our target group includes all private and public operators involved in construction projects and real estate purchases. We intervene upstream:

• On the definition of contractual arrangements, legal and financial structuring, the financial vision of the project or even the tax arrangements of the financing and validation of the tax assumptions of the model;
• On the negotiation and drafting of project finance and security agreements.

Our support in your real estate transactions includes the following services:

• Assistance in the drafting and negotiation of all construction-related contracts;
• Assistance in the monitoring and execution of construction contracts;
• Assistance in litigation.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of real estate disputes, the result of an increasingly complex legal framework (Alur, Pinel and Macron laws, law on energy transition for green growth, reform of contract law). Litigation generally arises in relation to unpaid bills, latent defects, conflicting interests of the parties to the contract, for example between those of the lessor and the lessee, or between the interests of public actors and those of builders.

In order to prevent such conflicts, the primary mission of our lawyers is to secure all real estate transactions entrusted to them. He may also be called upon to assist his client in the event of a dispute.

Our lawyers specializing in real estate law use their experience in this field to advise you and defend your interests, with ardor and professionalism, if a pre-litigation or litigation problem should arise.

Our team is active in many fields, including

• Litigation in rental matters: revision and termination of leases, amendments to leases, recovery of rent and charges, renewal of commercial leases, revision of commercial rents, etc;
• Litigation in construction matters: legal and contractual guarantees, liability of the parties involved, litigation relating to town planning rules (appeal for excess of power, compensation appeal, etc.), preventive summary proceedings, expert summary proceedings, etc;
• Taxlitigation

LEXLOR advises its clients on the tax framework of their planned real estate investment. Our lawyers work in particular with SCIs (real estate investment companies) subject to both income tax and corporation tax, with owners of professional and non-professional furnished rentals, as well as with other real estate investor profiles. For better profitability, it is important to optimize the taxation of real estate holdings of individuals and companies, in particular through the tax optimization of construction, purchase and resale operations.

The firm also assists you in matters of inheritance by setting up a tax optimization strategy for the transfer of your real estate assets.

Our lawyers are involved in all aspects of real estate taxation in order to guarantee our clients a tax-efficient operation.