Real estate (contracts, co-ownership, leases, expropriation, etc.)

All those in the real estate business, professionals or not, are confronted daily with legal issues of various types: drafting contracts, problems with permits, tax structures, environmental issues, judicial proceedings, etc…

The firm has a specialized contractual division that can assist you in the drafting of all your real estate contracts (sales contract, contract of enterprise, subcontracting contract, RDA (waiver right of accession), etc.).

The team also offers you efficient assistance for all consultations relating to the feasibility status, negotiations, or settlement of disputes in urban planning and environmental situations.

We support you in the event of expropriation

Expropriation for public utility is always a delicate procedure. For those who are subject to it, it precipitates their real estate situation into instability; for the administrations, it is a matter of heavy, long and expensive administrative procedures. Our team will accompany you efficiently in this procedure.

For expropriation files for public utility, Lexing provides the following services, according to your needs:

  • contesting the legality of the expropriation;
    • contesting the validity of the expropriation project;
    • challenging the legality of administrative expropriation orders;
  • amicable negotiation of the amount of compensation due for expropriation; or,
  • contesting – upwards – the amount of compensation proposed by the administration, when this is insufficient, through:
    • representation before the courts and tribunals;
    • follow-up of judicial expertise in the evaluation of the value of the expropriated property;
    • litigation, pleadings and appeals.

Our lawyers defend the interests of expropriated persons in this type of procedure. We also regularly represent the administration.

We can make company lawyers available to your company on a temporary basis (outsourcing) for a specific project.

In our attempts to provide you with the most effective way of resolving any dispute you might have, we give precedence to arbitration, collaborative law and mediation instead of legal proceedings. Many of our lawyers defend not only the interests of our clients in such cases, but are regularly called on as arbiters or legal experts.

We carry out the exequatur procedures aimed at granting enforceability to foreign judgments in the States where we are established.