Real Estate

LTA offers a full range of services in areas including acquisitions and disposals, construction, financing, hospitality and leisure, land use, planning and development, leasing, environmental law, insurance and tax. Our lawyers are expert in orchestrating complex, long-term projects that involve drafting documentation, facilitating negotiations, navigating legal and regulatory issues and, when necessary, litigating on their behalf.

 

Specific areas of focus include:

 

  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Corporate outsourcing (project management of both real estate matters and ancillary facilities management issues)
  • Joint ventures, partnerships and equity investments.
  • Development projects.
  • insolvency-related disputes - advising insolvency practitioners, advising on a landlord's remedies in the face of an insolvent tenant.
  • Neighbour disputes - rights to light claims, nuisance, boundary issues, restrictive covenants, rights of access.
  • Financings, including syndicated lending, securitizations and other capital markets transactions.
  • Bankruptcy and restructuring work, including workouts, distressed real estate investment and loan restructurings.
  • major property transaction disputes - construction disputes between contractor and developer, failures to complete, warranty claims, joint venture disputes.
  • enfranchisement - in respect of prime and super prime residential premises, advising landlords and tenants in respect of lease extension and collective enfranchisement (freehold purchase) claims.
  • Leisure, hospitality and gaming transactions.