As our client you benefit from our longstanding experience in the core areas of private and public construction law. Whether you are a principal or a contractor — our highly professional and competent team advises you on all significant aspects of the field.

Look to Dentons for legal advice on private construction law, in particular in the following areas:

• Construction contract law
• Construction management
• Construction-related claims and disputes (pursuit of warranty claims, remuneration and compensation claims as well as independent procedures for taking evidence)
• Architect’s law (drafting contracts with architects, remuneration matters, liability issues, intellectual property law, professional law)
• Project development (plant construction, business parks, residential reconstruction, infrastructure agreements) and on public building law, focusing on:
• Planning (including urban development contracts), zoning and sectorial planning
• Complex plant admission procedures
• Regulatory procedures, especially building permit procedures
• Specific infrastructure planning
• Review of regulatory federal building regulations and provisions
• Litigation with the relevant specialized courts, especially with the administrative courts
• Public procurement law

Being part of a global law firm, we support you with your projects in Germany and abroad. Our clients encompass project developers, residential construction and real estate companies, municipal authorities, hospital companies, industrial companies, building companies, architects and engineers as well as private and public investors and their holding companies.

We advise project developments in retail, logistics and other segments, comprising construction, acquisition, development and redevelopment, ongoing asset management and, last not least, the sale of the properties.

We carefully assemble experienced teams to deliver tailored solutions for you which meet the service standard you may expect. Staying connected with you in order to achieve your individual objectives and personal legal needs at all times is our aim — no matter the size of your company. To ensure comprehensive counselling, we work on an interdisciplinary basis with professionals from our other practices, notably Real Estate, Tax and Employment.

Recognition

Dentons named Top International Law Firm in the JD Supra 2020 Readers' Choice Awards

May 7, 2020

Dentons was named Top International Law Firm in the JD Supra 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards. In addition, six lawyers from Dentons’ offices around the world received Top Author awards, in recognition of the visibility and engagement that their thought leadership earned among JD Supra’s readers in 2019.

Insights

Episode #2 – Talking to Björn Pfeiffer – real estate investment and ESG

January 20, 2025

Europe:  “ESG will play a key role in investment and asset management. Companies have their own ESG targets or targets from different regulations. So you can't not think about ESG when it comes to investing”. In the second episode of the series, Sabine Wieduwilt interviews Björn Pfeiffer, who co-authored the chapters "Investment and ESG" and "Management agreements" of the book “Implementing ESG into Real Estate Contracts”.

Episode #1 – Talking to Dr. Bertold Bär-Bouyssière – from the Rolling Stones to Competition Law

January 20, 2025

Europe: When thinking about ESG implementation, competition law does not immediately come to mind. However, on second thought, finding solutions for ESG requires collaboration. And for collaboration there are some things that may not be allowed based on competition restrictions. It may need a competition expert to find out what that is. In the first episode of the series, Sabine Wieduwilt interviews Dr. Bertold Bär-Bouyssière, a partner in Dentons Competition and Antitrust practice in Brussels, who authored the chapter on “Sustainability and competition law in real estate contracts” in the book “Implementing ESG into Real Estate Contracts”.

Manufacturing in Europe guide

December 11, 2019

Dentons has published its first Manufacturing In Europe guide. This comprehensive guide gives foreign investors a high-level summary covering everything you need to know about a given country, from establishing appropriate business vehicles, operating, buy side and sell side key checkpoints, and moving your production.

News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Partners Tim Heitling and Christian Schnell appointed Co-Heads of Dentons’ Energy group in Europe

May 15, 2023

Global law firm Dentons has appointed partners Tim Heitling and Christian Schnell as Co-heads of the Europe Energy group. In their new roles, they will be responsible for driving the Firm’s strategy, product offering and capabilities for clients in the energy sector across 18 countries in Europe and Central Asia.

Dentons advises Witten/Herdecke University on procurement procedure for the construction of an innovative new central university building

November 4, 2019

Global law firm Dentons advised Witten/Herdecke University on an integrated procurement procedure for its new central university building.

Dentons advises Bosch on acquisition of building technology company GFR

August 8, 2019

Global law firm Dentons has advised Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH, which is part of the Bosch Building Technologies division of Robert Bosch GmbH, on the acquisition of GFR − Gesellschaft für Regelungstechnik und Energieeinsparung mbH.

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