Real estate litigation
Your most technically complex and strategically important real estate disputes require a team with the global resources and contentious expertise to deal with them. Across Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa and the Middle East our team of real estate litigation specialists advises the world’s leading developers, investors, landlords, financial institutions and joint venture partners on every type of relevant dispute.
Our aim is always to offer the right strategic and tactical advice for you to avoid litigation or to settle on the best possible terms through various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. If court action is required anywhere in the world, you will find us to be determined, robust and decisive. We have particular experience of disputes arising from the recession, such as actual and potential breaches of high value contracts, distressed developments, security enforcement, professional negligence actions and all types of insolvency.
Our development expertise includes restrictive covenants, easements, land options and overage disputes, UK Telecommunications Act issues and strategic land assembly planning. You can rely on our comprehensive landlord and tenant expertise, including in rent review, interim and terminal dilapidations, assignments and underlettings, service charge disputes, contested lease renewals, injunction and forfeiture actions and leasehold enfranchisement. We will also guide you through compulsory purchase and land compensation matters, business rates disputes, including empty rates and challenging rateable values, and interference with land actions, such as trespass and squatters actions.
We offer you
- specialist real estate expertise, both contentious and non-contentious
- mastery of all forms of dispute resolution
- global breadth to handle multi-jurisdictional disputes