Skierfe Advokatfirma KB

Skierfe is a boutique law firm focusing on the real estate industry. We provide legal services throughout the real estate’s entire lifecycle, including financing and acquisition, management, development, and the divestment of real estate.

Our clients consist of Swedish and international real estate companies, funds, investors, and developers. With the ambition of working as a cohesive team where each lawyer has a full understanding of our clients’ businesses, we value long-term client relationships. Therefore, we carefully consider the possibility of maintaining high quality and presence before taking on new clients.

Specialized expertise and industry knowledge are our key focus. For each new matter, we evaluate the specialist competence required in addition to our services. With a well-developed network of lawyers, tax advisers, and financial advisers, we assist in assembling and coordinating a comprehensive specialist team.

Practice Areas

Commercial Lease

Skierfe has extensive experience in commercial lease and regularly represents clients in the drafting and negotiation of complex lease agreements, renegotiations, and terminations. We assist our clients on a regular basis in all types of commercial lease structures within different segments such as retail, office, industrial, hotel, etc.

By working closely with our clients in development projects, we provide strategic advice regarding restructuring during upcoming renovations and demolitions. We also secure our clients’ future position by drafting and negotiating lease agreements that take the entire project into account, regardless of unforeseen delays in the project and similar risks that are associated with real estate development.

Construction

Construction projects are often complex and involve several actors over a long period of time. Skierfe assists in the drafting and negotiation of construction contracts and phased partnering projects, based on the standard contracts developed for the construction industry. We also regularly provide customized contracts tailored to the clients’ specific businesses, to facilitate the procurement process within their organizations.

Both forward funding and forward commitment transactions and other types of development projects require a good knowledge of construction contracts, the implementation of construction projects, and the establishment of consultant and project management agreements. In order to effectively manage all aspects of construction related matters in both the initial structuring of a transaction, as well as the drafting and negotiation of transaction documentation, we tailor each transaction team with specialists within construction law.

As the workflows within construction projects continue long after the completion of a construction contract, we work in close consultation with our clients and provide ongoing advice on strategic and contract-related considerations that arise during and after the completion of a construction project.

Financing

Skierfe has extensive experience in real estate financing. We provide legal advice to our clients with regard to real estate funding solutions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, property management and project finance. Our team has in-depth knowledge of both traditional bank facilities as well as more complex structured finance arrangements.

We regularly assist investors, real estate developers, and capital partners in the financial aspects of development projects. To ensure access to the necessary funding throughout the project, we often assist in structuring and executing transactions, as well as the implementation of complex preference share schemes in connection with joint ventures and other collaborative structures.

Fund structures

With technical expertise, extensive market experience, and a clear focus on the real estate industry Skierfe offers legal advise in the establishment of fund structures with real estate as underlying assets. Our work encompasses structuring, management, and investments. Through close collaboration with advisors in tax, regulatory compliance, and capital markets, we may act as project managers for all matters that may arise during fund structuring and investments.

Hotel/Hospitality

Skierfe regularly represents Swedish and foreign investors, developers, and long-term owners of hotel properties. Having vast experience of hotel properties and projects, we are accustomed to handling all types of real estate related issues that may arise within the hotel sector. We assist owners and developers of hotel properties in connection with acquisitions and investments as well as the structuring and implementation of hotel development projects.

With our key expertise in project development, financing, and construction, we can assist hotel developers throughout the entire project, adding valuable insight into the industry-specific issues that often arise during hotel development projects.

Real Estate Transactions

Skierfe regularly advises clients in real estate transactions, whether structured as transfer of real estate or as a transfer of shares. We have extensive experience in providing legal advice regarding acquisitions, sales, restructuring and joint ventures, and are often involved in complex development projects where we assist in all phases of the project.

We are often engaged by clients at an early stage of the transaction and can therefore bring added value already during the structuring phase of the project. With experience from real estate transactions in various forms, we understand the entire lifecycle of the transaction and can assist in developing an effective sales and acquisition strategy.

With our size, experience, and expertise in transactional advisory, we have the capacity to assemble bespoke teams for all types of transactions, whether they concern strategic and structured deals, re investments, or forward funding/forward commitment transaction, and whether the transaction includes portfolios or single assets.