Urban Planning & Development

Urban Planning & Development

• Review of the legal feasibility of development and real estate operations
• Advice and identification of the most appropriate legal arrangement and assistance in its implementation (concerted development zone (zone d’aménagement concerté – ZAC), development permit, building permit valid for division, urban partnership project, etc.)
• Assistance in obtaining the required authorisations for real estate projects
• Audit and validation of development procedures (creation and implementation of concerted development zones)
• Review of land transfer specifications
• Audit of urban planning authorisations (building permit, development permit, prior declaration, new tourist units authorisation)
• Assistance with procedures to modify urban planning documents: choosing the appropriate procedure, auditing files, and providing assistance during the procedure
• Assistance in negotiating and drafting development concessions
• Administrative litigation relating to authorisations, urban planning documents, and financial participations
• Judicial litigation relating to urban planning (compensation and demolition litigation, proceedings before the criminal court)

Land Management

• Preemption (advice and assistance, legality litigation, judicial pricing litigation)
• Expropriation (audit of expropriation procedures, advice, assistance, and litigation in administrative and judicial phases, transportation to the site, negotiation of transactions, negotiation of accession treaties)
• Assistance in negotiating, drafting transactions, and amicable dispute resolution (conciliation, mediation, arbitration)

Commercial Urban Planning

• Review of the legal feasibility and audit of commercial facilities projects (audit of applications for commercial operating licenses and building permits serving as administrative authorisations for commercial operation)
• Strategic advice and assistance for operators in their projects involving the establishment, creation, expansion, transfer, restructuring, or conversion of commercial facilities
• Compliance audit and legal security of commercial operations and assets
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