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Lawyers for public real estate, urban planning and development

Carrying out a real-estate operation, whether it is in the housing, office, commercial or industrial sector, requires knowledge of all the legal tools needed to carry out your projects, as well as of the relevant risks.

The CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats team offers you a comprehensive range of legal services to help you successfully complete of your real estate operations, regardless of your project’s size.

Whether you are a public or private contracting authority or a private operator, our team can advise you, as well as represent you before the various courts, at every step in the arrangement and completion of your development and construction project.

We thus provide support during your acquisition of real estate from public and private entities (right of urban preemption, right of expropriation for public utility) or when taking a lease (perpetual administrative lease, perpetual administrative enhancement lease, authorisation to occupy the public domain, etc.), but also in the scope of complex real estate operations that involve issues of volume and co-ownership. We are supported by our property law team when necessary.

Some real estate operations require thinking about the need to develop the perimeter of the operation (road works, public facilities, networks, etc.). In this respect, we can help you with the various public entities (local public entities, territorial groupings and public development agencies or institutions) and operators (mixed-economy companies, local public development companies, etc.) so that we can determine together the legal, contractual, financial and tax approach for carrying out your development operations.

In addition, we provide advice tailored to your operational issues in relation to the adaptation of urban planning documents necessary for your project (changes in the local urban planning rules, public consultation procedures, public enquiries, etc.) and in the development, follow-up and implementation of administrative authorisations (urban planning permits, change of use permits, commercial use permits, ICPE declarations/permits, water law, land clearing, etc.).

We have developed special expertise in the area of urban planning taxation which enables us to inform you and defend you in connection with compiling your files and when your urban planning taxes are collected (development tax, RAP, tax for creating offices, commercial premises and storage in the Greater Paris region, etc.) and recurring taxes (TEOM, CFE, etc.) generated by your project.

Our being members of the ORIE, GRIDAUH and SERDEAUT working groups enables us to keep a close eye on all changes to legislation, regulations and case law that may affect your projects.

 
Chiara Corrasco
Chiara Corrasco
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Chiara Corrasco joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023. She works in the following areas: urban planning and development law, environmental law and renewal energy law for businesses, property professionals...
Lea Gauzail
Léa Gauzail
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Léa GAUZAIL joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in January 2023, first as a trainee lawyer and then as a lawyer, pending her swearing-in. She specializes in real estate law, particularly public real estate law...
Jean-Pierre Malili
Jean-Pierre Malili
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Jean-Pierre Malili joined the Public law / Infrastructure Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023. He is involve in public business law and in particular in the following areas: public contracts (including...
Laure Mimoun
Laure Mimoun
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Laure Mimoun joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023 and is an associate in the Public and Real Estate Department. She is involved in urban law, real estate and environmental law
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Audrey Pichon-Varesio
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Audrey Pichon-Varesio is a French Attorney at Law (“Avocate”) in the Real Estate & Public Law team. She advises and litigates on issues related to urban planning and environment, in particular for...
Anne Plisson
Anne Plisson
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Anne Plisson joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018. She acts in non-contentious and contentious matters in relation to urban planning, environment and renewable energies. Before joining CMS Francis Lefebvre...
Pierre-Edouard Vino
Pierre-Edouard Vino
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Pierre-Edouard joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in October 2019. Lawyer since 2013, he previously practiced in the public law department of the law firms De Guillenchmidt et Associés and Peyrical & Sabattier...
Christelle Labadie
Christelle Labadie
Professional Support Lawyer - Real Estate & Construction
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Christelle joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in January 2018. Christelle formerly worked as a real estate lawyer at White & Case and Unibail-Rodamco. Christelle possesses expertise both in public and private...