Commercial Leases

Family-owned or institutional real estate companies, insurance companies, investment funds, property managers of shopping centers, hotel and restaurant professionals, together with SMEs and SMIs in other sectors can all benefit from our support in the management and contract management of their commercial leases.

Advisory activity:

• Drafting and negotiating commercial leases, professional leases, and sale before completion property leases (Baux en l’Etat Futur d’Achèvement or BEFAs in France)
• Legal management of commercial lease portfolios for property asset managers or institutions: legal and contract management of property portfolios made up of commercial leases: annual or triennial indexations and rent reviews, formal repossession orders, notice to quit with lease renewal offers, lease termination, etc.

Clients have access to a Dashboard where they can consult the legal monitoring of their commercial or professional leases, exchange with the firm's legal experts, and take decisions to reorganise or restructure their assets.

• • Audits for the acquisition or sale of all types of property (commercial premises, offices, logistics warehouses, etc.)

• • Reviews of leases for property asset managers (re-invoicing of charges and work performed, indexation clauses, VAT, de-capping, asbestos diagnostics, energy performance diagnosis, annual digital attestation of energy consumption, etc.).

• • Drafting of legal documents (notice to quit with lease renewal offers, triennial review requests, disputes, etc.)
  • Transfer of business and leasehold rights (set up and management of networks).

Legal activity:

Litigation relating to the following issues is a particular area of focus for our expert:

• Litigation relating to construction: during the course of work or after completion of the work, expert appraisals, challenges to biennial and ten-year constructor liability;
• Litigation relating to the enforcement of the lease: claims, disputes over charges, disputes over work carried out, setting the revised or renewed rent, etc.
• Litigation relating to termination of the lease:

Eviction indemnity: determination of eviction or occupancy compensation.
Refusal to renew without eviction indemnity or obtaining a cancellation clause. Legal termination of leases.