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Real Estate Lawyers

As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium or asset manager, your real estate deals are executed to tight deadlines within complex local legal systems. If, for example, your property assets cross international markets, you face issues based on differing real estate law as well as cultural and economic contexts. Whether you are in the retail, residential, hotels, infrastructure, care home, office, logistics, renewable energy or student accommodation sectors, we have the specialists to help. 

Through decades of experience of doing deals across Europe, 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. This approach allows us to guide your tax, planning, debt financing, construction and management issues in addition to your traditional real estate portfolio and property management work.

 
Pascal G. Favre
Dr Pascal G. Favre
Managing Partner
Switzerland, Geneva
Pascal Favre is the head of the Corporate/M&A and Competition Practice Groups of CMS Geneva. Pascal Favre regularly advises clients on all types of international and domestic M&A deals, transaction and...
Olivier Carrard
Olivier Carrard
Partner
Switzerland, Geneva
Olivier Carrard mainly focuses on Sports law, litigation, arbitration, commercial law, construction law, inheritance law and bankruptcy. Graduated from the University of Fribourg (1982), he was admitted...
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Dr Stefan Gerster, LL.M., MRICS
Partner
Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law
Switzerland, Zurich
Stefan Gerster is a partner with CMS Zurich since 2001. His practice focuses mainly on real estate law. He is the head of our internal practice group Real Estate & Construction. Among the clients of Stefan...
Daniel Kinzer
Daniel Kinzer
Partner
Switzerland, Geneva
Daniel Kinzer advises and defends businesses and individuals in regards to contentious matters in the areas of criminal law, economic criminal law, administrative criminal law, contractual and financial...
Sidonie Morvan
Sidonie Morvan
Partner
Head of the Real Estate Practice Group
Switzerland, Geneva
Sidonie Morvan is a lawyer specialising in property and construction law. Her practice covers all the major areas of real estate: real estate transactions and legal due diligence, development of real...
Sibylle Schnyder
Dr Sibylle Schnyder, LL.M.
Partner
Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law
Switzerland, Zurich
Sibylle Schnyder specialises in real estate law and mainly deals with real estate acquisitions and divestments, portfolio transactions, construction and development projects, landlord and tenant law...
David Hofmann
Dr David Hofmann
Counsel
Switzerland, Geneva
David Hofmann specialises in civil procedure as well as public and administrative law. He also practices in the field of lease law, construction, and urban planning. David Hofmann graduated from the Faculty...
Sylvain Marchand
Dr Sylvain Marchand
Counsel
Switzerland, Geneva
Sylvain Marchand is a Professor at the University of Geneva and an Associate Professor at the University of Neuchâtel. He teaches contract law, law of obligations and debt enforcement law. He also teaches...
Maxence Carron
Dr Maxence Carron
Senior Associate
Switzerland, Geneva
Maxence Carron is mainly active in the field of litigation, commercial law and contracts law as well as construction and real estate law. He graduated from the Universities of Fribourg (MLaw bilingual...
Delphine Di Nolfi
Delphine Di Nolfi
Senior Associate
Switzerland, Geneva
Delphine Di Nolfi completed her law studies at the University of Geneva and worked as a trainee at the Federal Administrative Court in the field of law of foreigners and citizenship. She then worked...