Real Estate & Tenancy Law

Our real estate team has extensive experience in real estate matters and a broad expertise to address our clients’ issues, including construction and planning law. We accompany French and international (in particular Italian and German) investors and companies from the real estate sector on the French market.

We advise our international clients and assist them in their investments or business start-ups in France, whether in the purchase or sale of commercial premises, offices, production facilities, shops, assets and goodwill or in the negotiation and conclusion of commercial leases.

We have many years of experience in the field of commercial tenancy law and act for renowned brands in the fashion sector (in particular in the fields of jewellery, perfumery, clothing, footwear and sportswear). We assist our clients throughout France both in setting up sales outlets and in the context of the operation of these outlets.

Our expertise also includes assisting our clients after the conclusion of a lease (subletting, renegotiation, review of the rent, execution of works, renewal and fixing of the renewed rent, assignment of tenancy rights) as well as representing our clients in court and in expert proceedings.

We also support our clients in the termination of a tenancy and assist them in moving out of the premises, in particular in the context of court proceedings to determine the eviction compensation. We also assist them in the extension of a tenancy, in particular in the renegotiation of the contract, but also in the setting of the rent for the extended tenancy, either by agreement or in court, as well as in the context of expert opinions.

Our team also supports our clients in the context of the sale of business operations or the assignment of tenancy rights.

Our areas of activity
  • Buying and selling in the real estate sector;
  • Commercial leases / advice on special French contracts in real estate law: leasehold contracts (Baux emphytéotiques) / heritable building right contracts Baux à constructions (BAC), contracts on real estate to be built (Baux en état futur d’achèvement (BEFA))
Our experience
  • Supporting our clients during the tenancy (contract negotiation, acceptance of work, assistance with handovers – handover protocol, etc.), during the renewal of the tenancy, disputes about the rent, rent reviews for many businesses.
  • Advising major French and international groups on the conclusion of commercial leases for office space (as well as for their headquarters, branches, production facilities and warehouses).
  • Opening of several sales outlets for various clients in the fields of jewellery, fashion, shoes, sporting goods, perfumery…
  • Litigation of disputes between large industrial groups, in particular in the automotive sector and in the area of electrical lifting platforms.
  • Drafting of leasehold contracts and contracts for properties yet to be completed (BEFA for short) with sub-agreements.

Partners, Heads of Department

Pierre Le Breton Partner

Valérie Orsini-Morgado Partner

Christoph Schödel Partner