Salans is a full-service international law firm with offices in Almaty, Baku, Berlin, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Warsaw.

Salans' Russian Real Estate Practice provides legal advice on a full range of real property-related issues and transactions, such as:

• Real estate acquisitions, including land rights and property development
• Real estate development and construction
• Real estate leasing and financial leasing
• Structuring of real estate development projects and investment optimisation
• Project finance
• Property management (hotels, office buildings)
• Litigation

Our clients range from governments, international financial institutions, pension funds, commercial banks, investment funds, construction companies, developers and promoters to private, family-owned enterprises. We advise them on cross-border financings, acquisitions, development and leasing involving hotels, residential and office buildings, shopping centres, amusement parks and industrial properties.

In all of the jurisdictions where we are present, we provide a full-service real property practice, from tenant representation to assisting developers and lenders seeking to package new real estate development and finance concepts and negotiating with state executive and administrative bodies for the acquisition of rights to state-owned objects of real property. We also handle dispute situations arising out of real estate transactions.

Our Real Estate Group frequently works with members of the tax, corporate, M&A, private equity and banking groups to deal with related issues in complex real property transactions or projects, and as a result we have developed the ability to deal with all aspects of such transactions.

Salans is highly recommended in the Corporate Real Estate area by PLC WhichLawyer? (former Global Counsel) and Chambers Global.

Last year Salans won a Euromoney Real Estate Award in the category "Real Estate Advisor - Emerging Europe". Euromoney survey provides a qualitative and quantitative review of the best services in real estate, organised by geography and areas of service. It is an objective guide to the various players in real estate worldwide.

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