Pact lawyers has extensive experience in the area of real estate transactions in terms of both commercial office space and buildings as well as residential property. Our dedicated team of specialists combine their knowhow and experience in (international) transactions with a transaction-oriented approach.

We have the skills necessary to draft your sale and purchase documentation, to negotiate these documents and oversee the transaction process. Our focus is primarily on the mitigation of all legal risks, but you can also rely on us to ensure the transaction is finalised as quickly and efficiently as possible. We advise and support you in the preparatory phase, for example in drafting an agreement of intention and undertaking due diligence research. We make use of modern filing facilities and can share all due diligence documents and reports with you digitally. We can also establish a virtual dataroom for you should you wish.

Our real estate lawyers also have an impressive track record in litigation and real estate transactions. These include for example proceedings related to easements, perpetual clauses, guarantees and indemnities, hidden defects, financing, conditions subsequent, breach of contract and penalties.

Our team of tenancy law specialists advises and litigates on all aspects of tenancy law in relation to both office or business space and residential property. These include proceedings and advice in relation to maintenance or defects, safety and environment, security of tenure, closure or relocation of a business, renovations, change in rent, service costs, zoning issues, termination of rental contract, substitution, eviction, nuisance, co- and subletting.

In addition we naturally also advise and support you in drafting or reviewing your rental contract. Practice shows that careful drafting of a rental contract, with clear demarcation of responsibilities, prevents legal problems in the future. Our lawyers know where things tend to go wrong and how to make your rental contract ‘future-proof’.

Should you need advice or information about renting or letting property, or about a (threatened) legal proceeding or dispute, please feel free to contact one of our real estate experts.

The regulations governing owners associations, or ‘VVE’ as they are known in Dutch, are different in every country. The Netherlands is no different. Pact lawyers offers a special owners association desk that handles all your legal issues relating to these bodies. We also have good contact with association managers and other service providers specialised in owner associations.

Pact lawyers advises and litigates on all matters relating to the law governing owners associations. In addition, we keep you informed about all relevant developments and court decisions relating to owner associations through our specially established website on this topic, www.vve-advocaat.nl.

Pact lawyers litigates and advises on various corporate law matters that real estate businesses encounter in practice. For example, perhaps your real estate transaction or financing demands that particular attention is paid to your corporate structure. When entering into a financing, security will have to be provided (for example, pledges, mortgages and deposits). For entry into joint ventures and other forms of collaboration in real estate, tailored collaboration agreements must be drawn up. Pact lawyers looks for a cost efficient solution and keeps the future in mind: whether profits are high or low, your corporate form needs to be flexible with you.

Our lawyers litigate and advise on the following real estate corporate law matters, among others:

• founding a company and the choice of legal form
• drafting shareholders and other collaboration agreements
• advising on articles of association of a private company with limited liability
• determining the relationships within a (general) partnership or a limited partnership
• financing and security (for example rights of pledge and mortgage, deposits and bank guarantees)
• appointment and removal of directors, managers and employees
• liability of directors and shareholders
• overseeing the takeover of a real estate company
• insolvency and bankruptcy (including requesting or averting bankruptcy and issues relating to the entering into of financial obligations in the face of bankruptcy)

Naturally you can always contact Pact lawyers for any other property-related issue. We have extensive expertise and experience in the following areas, among others:

• liability and non-fulfilment of contracts
• trade disputes with debtors or creditors
• drafting and reviewing various sorts of commercial contracts
• leasehold and building rights and other commercial rights
• ownership and prescription
• debt collection
• seizure and enforcement procedures
• foreclosure auctions