Major real estate investment and development is frequently delivered through joint endeavors and private equity investment. Forming and shaping such joint investment is central to its success. At Dentons, our lawyers will listen to your goals and work with you to tailor the structure to the venture and the parties’ specific needs. Whether matching capital to skills, ownership to management or sharing risk between participants, our lawyers will apply their industry knowledge to help you select the appropriate vehicle and structure. We work with you to anticipate potential areas of commercial conflict and develop practical, appropriate mechanisms to resolve disputes. Our lawyers recognize the need to plan the parties’ exit from any joint venture as carefully as its formation.

Joint ventures are all about the allocation of risk and responsibility. By working with you to identify potential risk and to understand the needs of the venture from capital to skilled management, our lawyers ensure that the documentation reflects the underlying commercial agreement. Dentons’ clients have access to true real estate joint venture expertise.

As an integrated global practice we have team members that focus solely on real estate joint ventures every day. Few if any competitors can offer you the level of expertise that we provide through global staffing. We have closed dozens of transactions representing equity investors investing in and with development partners, and have represented numerous developers that sourced needed equity from partners.

Lawyers across our global offices represent some of the most active, sophisticated funds investing in real estate joint ventures in many jurisdictions. We can leverage our industry knowledge in acting for such funds as well as for landowners, developers, occupiers and managers. Our lawyers use this experience to identify key taxation, contractual or underlying real estate issues. Whoever your intended joint venture partner, Dentons will work with you to achieve your objectives.

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Industrial parks in Ukraine

May 15, 2024

Ukraine: Industrial parks operate in Ukraine under provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Industrial Parks” and a number of sub-law acts.

Consultation proposal to modernize Dutch partnership legislation

September 12, 2023

Netherlands: Existing Dutch legislation concerning partnerships largely stems from the year 1838. Therefore, this legislation is regarded outdated. The applicable rules are included in various Dutch laws (Book 7A of the Dutch civil code for the Maatschap and the Commercial Code for the V.O.F. and the limited partnership) and jurisprudence has modernized such rules laid down in Dutch law. 

Next Steps for B.C.’s Land Owner Transparency Act

November 8, 2021

Canada: The Land Owner Transparency Act came into force in British Columbia on November 30, 2020. This law created a publicly accessible database of information about certain individuals with an indirect interest in land in British Columbia – such as through a corporation, trust or partnership.

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Dentons bolsters its Saudi presence with the arrival of Edward Rose and Guy Danalis

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Dentons, the world's largest global law firm, has further expanded its Saudi Arabia practice with the recent hires of Edward Rose and Guy Danalis, from Jones Day, who both join the Firm as senior legal consultants based in Riyadh.

Dentons advises CR Investment Management on joint venture with CBRE Global Investors

October 2, 2019

Global law firm Dentons advised CR Investment Management on the establishment of a joint venture with CBRE Global Investors to offer boutique apartments to business travellers.