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We offer the benefit of longstanding experience in the real estate and construction market. In an increasingly active property market, we can advise you on complex cross-border property portfolio sales and acquisitions across the region and we can provide industry-specific advice such as leasing agenda, construction and development projects and construction litigation. Whether you are in the logistics, retail, office, residential, hotels, infrastructure or energy sectors, we have the specialists to help.

We work for governments and other public bodies, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, professionals, banks and financial institutions on a wide variety of different projects. This means we understand the issues from all perspectives and can identify solutions quickly.

Through decades of experience of doing deals across the world, our multi-jurisdictional teams adhere to the same templates, processes and standards, including project management. This means we can deploy specialist teams to advise you immediately, irrespective of where the real estate assets are. If you are launching or operating a real estate fund or setting up a real estate related joint venture, our funds and corporate experts can give you country-specific support.

Our construction team works for governments and other public bodies, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, professionals, banks and financial institutions on a wide variety of different projects. This means we understand the issues from all perspectives and can identify solutions quickly. We can also introduce specialists from related areas such as construction insurance, environmental law, planning, public procurement, health and safety, PFI/PPP and secondary markets.

High­lights of our ex­per­i­ence in Real Es­tate & Con­struc­tion in Brazil
Açu Shipyard, Rio de Janeiro state on nu­mer­ous high-value con­struc­tion con­tracts and con­tracts for the pro­cure­ment of heavy equip­ment and in­stall­a­tions.Bal­mor­al Off­shore En­gin­eer­ing on the ac­quis­i­tion...

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28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
15/09/2022
CMS An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments: An In­ter­na­tion­al...
We are pleased to an­nounce the pub­lic­a­tion of the 2022 edi­tion of our in­ter­na­tion­ally fo­cused An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments. Now in its twelfth year, the An­nu­al Re­view sum­mar­ises...
21/07/2022
CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - 2022 Sum­mer Edi­tion
The sum­mer edi­tion of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, a bi-an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion that high­lights, ex­plores and ana­lyses the latest trends in the glob­al dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion sec­tor, is now pub­lished...
01/06/2022
CMS Next
What’s next? In a world of ever-ac­cel­er­at­ing change, stay­ing ahead of the curve and know­ing what’s next for your busi­ness or sec­tor is es­sen­tial.At CMS, we see ourselves not only as your leg­al ad­visers but also as your busi­ness part­ners. We work to­geth­er with you to not only re­solve cur­rent is­sues but to an­ti­cip­ate fu­ture chal­lenges and in­nov­ate to meet them.With our latest pub­lic­a­tion, CMS Next, our ex­perts will reg­u­larly of­fer you in­sights in­to and fresh per­spect­ives on a range of is­sues that busi­nesses have to deal with – from ESG agen­das to re­struc­tur­ing after the pan­dem­ic or fa­cing the di­git­al trans­form­a­tion. We will also share with you more about the work that we are do­ing for our cli­ents, help­ing them in­nov­ate, grow and mit­ig­ate risk.To be able to provide you with the best sup­port, we im­merse ourselves in your world to un­der­stand your leg­al needs and chal­lenges. However, it is equally im­port­ant that you know who we are and how we can work with you. So, we in­vite you to meet our ex­perts and catch a glimpse of what is hap­pen­ing in­side CMS.En­joy read­ing this pub­lic­a­tion, which we will up­date reg­u­larly with new con­tent.CMS Ex­ec­ut­ive Team
20/05/2022
Amended IC­SID Rules to enter in­to force on 1 Ju­ly 2022
On 21 March 2022, the Mem­ber States of the In­ter­na­tion­al Centre for Set­tle­ment of In­vest­ment Dis­putes (IC­SID) ad­op­ted a com­pre­hens­ive set of amend­ments to IC­SID ar­bit­ra­tion and con­cili­ation rules (“IC­SID...
27/02/2022
Hand­ling the new EU and UK sanc­tions against Rus­sia
Since 2014, the EU and the UK have pro­gress­ively im­posed sanc­tions on Rus­sia in re­sponse to the crisis in Ukraine. Fol­low­ing the latest events, both the EU and the UK, as well as many oth­er coun­tries...
22/02/2022
New FID­IC Green Book Re­leased: a rival to the First Edi­tion Red and Yel­low...
FID­IC has re­cently pub­lished the second edi­tion of its Short Form of Con­tract, the “Green Book”, as an up­date to the 1999 edi­tion. This re­lease is im­port­ant not only in terms of the re­vised or new...
12/01/2022
CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - 2021/22 Winter Edi­tion
Wel­come to the winter edi­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, a bi­an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion that ex­plores, ana­lyses and provides com­ment­ary on the latest trends in the world­wide dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion mar­ket...
04/11/2021
Up­date: CMS Ex­pert Guide to In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion – Amer­icas
We are pleased to an­nounce that the fifth volume of the CMS Ex­pert Guide to In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion has been pub­lished, cov­er­ing sev­en jur­is­dic­tions in the Amer­icas: Ar­gen­tina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile...
17/09/2021
CMS An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments: An In­ter­na­tion­al...
We are pleased to an­nounce the pub­lic­a­tion of the 2021 edi­tion of our An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments: An In­ter­na­tion­al Per­spect­ive. Now in its el­ev­enth year, the An­nu­al Re­view...
21/06/2021
CMS In­fra­struc­ture In­dex shows mar­kets are buoy­ant
New re­port CMS In­fra­struc­ture In­dex: Ac­cel­er­at­ing trans­form­a­tion ex­am­ines the trends im­pact­ing the in­fra­struc­ture sec­tor, ranks 50 coun­tries by at­tract­ive­ness for in­fra­struc­ture in­vest­ment and ana­lyses...