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Real Estate & Construction

Portugal

CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut Real Estate Practice has the experience and the legal know how to advise on mainstream real estate work, complex investment structures, including real estate funds, property finance, environmental, construction and planning law.

We provide advice to investors on real estate transactions with domestic and international dimension involving construction and sale of real estate assets and related financing.

Recent experience includes advising on:

  • The Construction of Retail Parks and Shopping Centers
  • Housing Projects
  • Touristic Developments
  • Real Estate Management players on the Draft and Negotiation of Operation Agreements 
  • The Construction of Industrial Complexes, including the acquisition of Real Estate Properties, execution of protocols with municipalities, licensing and other legal issues

Included in our real estate practice area we have a team specialized in the regularization of the legal situation of a great number of properties.

This team has the experience of some projects in which thousands of properties belonged to big portuguese companies and located all over the country were handled.

Acknowledgement

Band 4: "The team provides quick answers and a high quality of service."
Chambers & Partners 2015
Band 3
Legal 500 2015
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09 February 2021
BAT con­clu­sions for large com­bus­tion plants an­nulled – What next?
On 27 Janu­ary 2021 the Gen­er­al Court of the European Uni­on de­clared the so-called BAT con­clu­sions for large com­bus­tion plants an­nulled. It is worth con­sid­er­ing what this rul­ing really means and what it...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
14 January 2021
The rise of the glob­al ex­pert ser­vices prac­tice: Court of Ap­peal guid­ance...
A Court of Ap­peal de­cision earli­er this week has up­held an in­junc­tion gran­ted by the TCC pre­vent­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pert ser­vices firm from act­ing for more than one party to an in­ter­na­tion­al con­struc­tion...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
15 December 2020
Five years after Hua­wei ZTE FRAND li­cens­ing ob­lig­a­tions again be­fore the...
On 26 Novem­ber 2020, the Düs­sel­dorf Re­gion­al Court an­nounced that it would sus­pend a pat­ent in­fringe­ment pro­ceed­ing and refer key ques­tions on com­puls­ory li­cens­ing of stand­ard es­sen­tial pat­ents (SEP)...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
15 September 2020
Meet the Law
Lei n.º 45/2020, de 20 de agosto Al­ter­ação do re­gime ex­cecion­al de mora nos con­tratos de ar­ren­da­mento não hab­itacion­al En­qua­d­ra­mento Foi pub­licada a Lei n.º 45/2020, de 20 de agosto, que vem al­ter­ar...
Newsletter Real Estate & Construction
27 August 2020
Tail­ings Man­age­ment and New Stand­ards of Reg­u­la­tion
Tail­ings dam fail­ures have put the min­ing in­dustry in the head­lines for the wrong reas­ons in re­cent years. Dam fail­ures can have dis­astrous con­sequences in terms of loss of life and en­vir­on­ment­al dam­age...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
07 August 2020
Treaty claims for can­celled or mod­i­fied in­fra­struc­ture pro­jects in the...
A re­cent IC­SID tribunal has denied an in­vestor’s claim con­cern­ing the de­vel­op­ment of an air­port pro­ject in Latvia. The in­vestor was un­able to pro­ceed with the con­struc­tion of its pro­ject due to nu­mer­ous...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
05 June 2020
Ad­vance pay­ment bonds: “step­ping down” pro­vi­sions and more guid­ance on...
Last month we re­por­ted on a TCC de­cision which con­sidered the re­quire­ments for mak­ing and re­ject­ing a de­mand un­der an ad­vance pay­ment bond sub­ject to the URDG. Very sim­il­ar is­sues have now been con­sidered...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
01 June 2020
Meet the Law | Law 17/2020, of May 29th
On the 29th of May 2020, the Law 17/2020 was pub­lished, and came in­to force on the 30th of May 2020, mak­ing pub­lic the first amend­ments to the ex­cep­tion­al re­gime re­gard­ing the de­fer­ment of rents due pur­su­ant...
Newsletter Real Estate & Construction
07 May 2020
The use of ex­perts in in­ter­na­tion­al con­struc­tion dis­putes: con­flicts of...
A re­cent de­cision of the Tech­no­logy and Con­struc­tion Court ap­pears to be the first re­por­ted Eng­lish de­cision to up­hold a fudi­ciary duty of loy­alty in an ex­pert wit­ness ap­point­ment. The find­ing in this...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
07 May 2020
GRESB 2020 – It’s Ques­tion Time!
GRESB has launched its 2020 Real Es­tate As­sess­ment. GRESB is the lead­ing glob­al En­vir­on­ment­al, So­cial and Gov­ernance (ESG) bench­mark for the real es­tate and in­fra­struc­ture in­dus­tries. It is a vol­un­tary...
Law-Now Real Estate & Construction
28 April 2020
In­dir­ect and con­sequen­tial loss ex­clu­sions: Eng­lish law holds the line...
A Tech­no­logy and Con­struc­tion Court de­cision last week has con­sidered a dir­ect at­tack on the tra­di­tion­ally nar­row in­ter­pret­a­tion giv­en by the Eng­lish courts to in­dir­ect and con­sequen­tial loss ex­clu­sion...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
16 April 2020
Meet the Law | Min­is­teri­al Or­der no. 91/2020 of April 14th
On 15th April 2020, the Min­is­teri­al Or­der No. 91/2020 entered in­to force, densi­fy­ing the re­gime of the morator­i­um on rents and es­tab­lish­ing the mech­an­isms for the demon­stra­tion of the de­crease of in­come.We...
Newsletter Real Estate & Construction
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