We offer a complete range of legal services related to all aspects of real estate transactions and our broad range of experience includes acting on behalf of individuals, corporations, and institutional clients. Our real estate lawyers and associates have a successful combination of technical property expertise, local market knowledge, industry insight and global experience. We provide support to lenders, realtors, developers, and contractors.
We are well-versed in the handling of all types of real estate transactions and contract negotiations. Our extensive experience allows us to solve problems concerning real estate quickly and efficiently. Our lawyers have extensive experience in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions in various regions in Serbia, as well as in transactions in other countries of the region.
Our legal team is ready to advise clients in all official languages of the local jurisdictions, as well as in English and German.
OUR PRACTICE
CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating construction contracts
- Preparing commercial building contracts, infrastructure and engineering contracts, process and energy plant contracts
- Reviewing supply contracts and purchase orders
- Preparing operation and maintenance contracts
- Preparing professional services contracts
- Preparing collateral warranties, third party rights schedules and notices and third-party duty of care undertakings
- Preparing pre-construction or early construction start arrangements
- Preparing asset protection agreements
- Preparing legal analysis of performance security, including bonds, guarantees and project accounts
- Preparing and reviewing FIDIC agreements
REAL ESTATE LITIGATION
- Analysis and assessment of legal risks related to disputes over legal titles to real estate
- Drafting court submissions in disputes concerning real estate
- Representing clients before regular courts in disputes concerning real estate
- Representing investors before administrative courts and state administration in disputes concerning building permits and zoning decisions
- Representing clients in landlord and tenant disputes
- Representing clients in environmental disputes
- Dealing with toxic torts litigation
- Representing clients in premises liability cases
- Representing clients in secured credit, lien priority and foreclosure disputes
- Representing clients in title, trespass and boundary disputes
- Representing clients in property tax disputes
- Representing clients in FIDIC disputes
REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS
- Participating in lease negotiations and drafting lease agreements
- Supporting in site acquisition
- Preparing and executing sale and leaseback structures, conveyancing and mortgages
- Preparing real estate management contracts
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
- Due diligence of target real estate
- Drafting of sale and purchase agreements
- Clearing and transferring of the title
- Reviewing and preparing financing agreements
- Drafting escrow agreements
SPATIAL PLANNING AND ZONING
- Preparing legal analysis and drafting legal documentation related to zoning
- Representing investors concerning cooperation with relevant authorities by development of a zoning plan
- Legal analysis of the impact of zoning plans on ownership rights
- Representing investors before state authorities and administration courts in disputes concerning zoning decisions
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND PPP PRACTICE
- Analyzing legal aspects of investment projects with public partners
- Drafting agreements concerning cooperation and realization of joint investments related to infrastructure projects
- Representing of public and private investors in realization of infrastructure projects
HOW WE STAND OUT?
We have assisted leading realtors, developers, and contractors in the region. We specialize in complex domestic construction and engineering projects such as commercial offices, corporate and bank headquarters, sport centers, major international energy and infrastructure projects. This experience gives us an excellent understanding of the wide spectrum of issues that arise across various sectors, making sure all solutions meet our clients’ requirements.
As a special recognition to the quality of our service, we are one of very few law firms (if not the only law firm) from Serbia that is often invited by our international clients to take the role of their main legal advisor in legal matters involving other European jurisdictions (e.g. Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, etc.), when we cooperate with local legal counsels from the respective jurisdiction to provide best possible legal protection to the interests of our clients. For example: Managing Partner Slobodan Doklestic is often engaged by Turner International, a leading US-based construction company,to act as their regional counsel to advise them on their projects throughout Europe (e.g. Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, etc.).
CONTACT
MILOS PANDZIC
PARTNER
Tel. +381 (0)11 414 33 60 (switchboard)
+381 (0)11 414 33 69 (direct)
+381 (0)64 101 16 22 (cell)
E-mail: milos.pandzic@doklestic.law