Offices: Brussels, Belgium

Real Estate & Real Estate Financing

Our lawyers have extensive experience in real estate and real estate finance. The Brussels office assists its clients in all aspects of real estate, from development and construction, to acquisition, sales and leases, including project finance and syndicated lending, representing banks, owners, landlords, tenants, contractors and developers.

Representative matters McGuire Woods’ Brussels office:

• a Dutch bank specializing in real estate development finance, as lender, for the re-financing of two of the largest shopping centers in Belgium, worth more than EUR 100,000,000 and EUR 265,000,000 respectively; for the financing of the acquisition of real estate in view of the development at the Belgian coast of a residential complex worth over EUR 80,000,000; as lender, for the financing over EUR 100,000,000 of the acquisition and renovation by a Luxembourg based real estate fund of three sets of office buildings in Brussels; as lender, for the financing some EUR 40,000,000 of the acquisition and redevelopment of a shopping center combined with offices and dwelling in the historical centre of Ghent
• a Belgian State owned real estate agency for the follow-up and implementation pursuant to the earlier signature of an MOU for the projected construction of the new seat for an international organization, for an amount over EUR 240,000,000
• a U.K. listed real estate company for the acquisition of an office building in the centre of Brussels
• another U.K. listed real estate company for the final closing agreement and breakdown upon the termination of a letting and renovation guarantee period in respect of the prior sale of a landmark office tower situated in Brussels; for the acquisition of a landmark research centre with laboratories, research facilities and offices situated nearby the University of Louvain-la-Neuve