The Linklaters real estate group has a broad scope and brings ‘vast experience and expertise,’ to M&A, joint ventures, investment and development projects, real estate finance, public procurement and much more. Practice head Yves Moreau is ‘a legal legend – very professional and solution-driven’. For project finance, Pieter Puelinckx and managing associate Lothar Van Driessche have ‘experience and a pragmatic approach’. Counsel France Englebert focuses predominantly on the hotel sector.
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Testimonials
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'Real estate team has a vast experience and expertise, is oriented to solve problems, is fast, always reachable and available, knows their clients, great transaction team.'
'Yves Moreau and his team are excellent advisors.'
'Very experienced, very good lawyers.'
‘In-depth knowledge of the project finance business.’
‘The experience and pragmatic approach of Pieter Peulinckx and Lothar Van Driessche’
‘Professional, commercial (thinking with the business), available, multilingual, cross-border team with high knowledge of the real estate market.’
‘Very accessible and efficient.’
‘Very high-level team with a large scope of work, from real estate leasing, to capital markets transactions, including litigation. Good mix of senior and junior lawyers - very efficient organization.’
‘Individuals in the team are very talented lawyers who understand well what their clients are looking for in terms of advice.’
‘Very strong Real Estate practice and robust knowledge of the legal framework and marvelously combining it with litigation aspects.’
‘Peter Puelinckx has a very pragmatic and solution driven approach. Always available to provide qualitative advices, it is a real pleasure to work with him on complex cases.’
'Team is very professional and has high knowledge of complex legal real estate matters.'
'Yves Moreau is a legal legend. Very professional, solution-driven and - important - has a great sense of humour.'
Key clients
- Cofinimmo
- Befimmo
- CBRE Investment Management
- Ageas / AG Insurance / AG Real Estate
- McDonald’s Restaurants Belgium
- La Française Real Estate Managers
- IRET
- John Cockerill
- Solvay
- Ineos
- Weerts Group
- Macquarie
- Baltissimmo
Work highlights
- Advising La Française Real Estate Managers on the divestment of a group of Luxembourg and Belgian companies, of which two are B-REIFs (FIIS/GVBF), owned by Korean (Hyundai Investments) and French (LF Europimmo) investors, to Green Real Estate FundComm.V., a fund managed by Whitewood in which the Federal Holding and Investment Company (SFPI-FPIM), i.e. Belgium’s “Sovereign Wealth Fund”, is participating, owning together two office buildings in Brussels, headquarters to Engie.
- Fedimmo, subsidiary of the Belgian Real-Estate Investment Trust (SIR-GVV) Befimmo: advising on the divestment of a portfolio of twenty-five properties, having a combined surface area of around 115,000m², to Downtown Real Estate and Straco. The properties are or were formerly let to several Federal Public Services.
- AG Insurance and Incresco, represented by AG Real Estate: advising on the divestment of six nursing and care home properties located in the Flemish and Brussels regions through a combination of share deals and asset deals to Healthcare Activos Yield SOCIMI S.A., for whom this constituted the first investment in Belgium.
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Yves Moreau