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Mr Pascal Schmitz
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Pascal Schmitz is a Partner and heads the Paris Real Estate group.
As a renowned property investment lawyer, Pascal has developed a strategic expertise in corporate real estate and in investment transactions (acquisitions and disposals, M&A) as well as in acquisition financing, joint ventures and in structuring investments including negotiating financing, partnership agreements and structuring funds.
In addition, he also has extensive experience in all areas of property management, such as commercial leases, development agreements and construction law.
Pascal advises German, French, European and US investment funds on transactions throughout France and Europe.
Career
Real Estate Partner, Dentons (2018 – present)
Real Estate Partner, King & Spalding, Paris (2012 – 2018)
Real Estate Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (2002 – 2012)
Languages
English, French
Memberships
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1995
Member of the Urban Land Institute’s French Chapter
Education
Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), 1990, Postgraduate degree, Real Estate Law
Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), 1989, Master’s Degree, Business Law
Lawyer Rankings
France > Real estate
‘Responsiveness, skill and tenacity’ are the calling cards of the team at Dentons, who are active on a range of real estate investment transactions including acquisitions, disposals, sales and leasebacks. Development work, property management and litigation are additional core skills. Property investment specialist Pascal Schmitz heads up the group, which is also home to key figures Véronique Lagarde and Maxime Simonnet. Audrey Arnaut-Lacombe and Charlotte Rossi support the partners across the gamut of matters and also garner client praise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Employment
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- EU, competition and distribution
- Insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Private equity: LBO
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Tax
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation