Stibbe
The real estate transactions group at Stibbe is well positioned to handle large-scale real estate transactions, acquisitions, leases and property developments. The team acts for real estate companies, domestic and international property developers, financial institutions, private equity firms and governmental agencies. Boris Cammelbeeck and Maarten de Bruin co-lead the practice, with Cammelbeeck specialising in real estate transactions, including purchase, sale and financing deals, while de Bruin focuses on both the industrial and real estate sectors, handling both finance and tax issues. Real estate expert David Orobio de Castro is experienced in dealing with real estate projects, project finance and real estate and concession contracts. Ingmar de Groot, Jan van Oosten, and Johan Vrolijk are also integral to the team.
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‘The Stibbe real estate team has great strength in depth. They have a wide array of capable practitioners both within the team itself and within related teams which makes them a very good option for one stop shop reliable advice. They have a very good understanding of our commercial needs.’
‘Boris Cammelbeeck is one of our lead advisors in this team. He has a calm and considered approach and has developed a very good understanding of our business needs.'
Key clients
- AccorInvest
- Aedifica
- Blackstone
- BPD
- Breakthrough Properties
- British American Tobacco
- FedEx
- Forum Estates
- Genmab and Merus
- Granite REIT
- Great Grey Investments Datacenter (GGID)
- Staedion
- Inditex
- KLM
- Louis Vuitton
- Mitiska REIM
- Morgan Stanley
- Municipality of The Hague
- Neinver
- Prologis
- Q-Park
- SEGRO
- Tupla Vastgoed
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Work highlights
- Advised Blackstone Group on its equity investment together with Landmark in a portfolio of HighBrook Investors with a value of approx. €180,000,000.
- Advised AccorInvest on the sale of its 40% equity stake in TGRE, the owner and operator of Hotel Sofitel The Grand in Amsterdam, to Schroder Real Estate Investment Management.
- Advised SEGRO on (i) the sale of a non-core asset in Westzaan to Cabot (ii) the sale of part of the SEGRO Park Amsterdam Airport to SELP and (iii) its lease with DHL.
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Boris is a specialist in large-scale real estate transactions. He advises on the purchase, sale and financing of real estate. His field of work also includes advising clients on all aspects of their corporate real estate and on matters involving project development and real estate contracts concerning commercial and residential properties. For such matters, Boris acts on behalf of corporates, real estate companies, project developers, investors, banks, global retailers and municipalities. In 2019, Boris obtained his Master of Real Estate (MRE) from the Amsterdam School of Real Estate with a thesis on the main civil law and tax differences between a ground lease and a contractual lease regarding commercial properties. He is the co-editor and co-author of the second revised edition of the Handbook Commercial Lease Law and publishes regularly on his expertise. He is also a permanent guest lecturer at the University of Groningen. Boris holds master’s degrees (both with honours) in both civil law and corporate law from the University of Leiden. He also attended Hastings College of Law in San Francisco on the L.L.B exchange program. In 2012, he completed the postgraduate course in lease law (with honours) of the Dutch Association of Lease Lawyers. Boris is a member of the Master of Real Estate Alumni Society and the Dutch Association of Lease Lawyers.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Boris Cammelbeeck, Maarten de Bruin