About

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Our Italian Real Estate practice assists domestic and international clients in all stages of the investment and development phases. Our practice covers all aspects of real estate law and works closely with our UK and US real estate teams. We provide transactional strategic advisory, serve the clients in all the areas of Real Estate investments, transactional, environmental, real estate finance, funds and regulatory, dispute resolution and tax. Our practice covers all sectors and value add asset classes including offices, logistics, data centers, social housing, student housing, senior housing, hospitality, retail and mixed use. With 10 years of experience, the team is one of the most recognized in the Italian market focused on foreign investments into Italy and in the expansion of Italian clients across Europe. Our experience includes structuring development transactions for real estate funds, pioneering the legal market for the negotiation and execution of construction contracts and designing project management agreements. We are recognized for advising on real estate transactions that involve forward purchase structures. Our practice includes the Town Planning and Environmental team, which provides our clients with a unique set of skills such as Real Estate development and redevelopment of existing buildings assisting clients throughout the administrative and urban planning process in advising co-living companies, in the redevelopment projects of areas used for this purpose

Chambers Review

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Real Estate - Italy
3
Band 3
What the team is known for

K&L Gates provides a widely recognised real estate practice that displays particular strength in acquisitions. The law firm provides support in portfolio transactions and logistic investments. The client base includes international asset managers, real estate companies and investors. Its lawyers have additional capabilities in tax-related matters.

Work Highlights

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  • K&L Gates advised Indotek Group on an investment in a real estate fund managed by Savills Investment Management SGR.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Francesco Sanna
2
Francesco Sanna
Head of Real Estate
2
Band 2

Francesco Sanna frequently represents multinational investment and real estate companies on a broad range of real estate mandates, including asset sales and purchases. He is also skilled in matters relating to project developments.

"Francesco has an impressive ability to negotiate."

"He is very supportive in the execution of transactions, facilitating dialogue with counterparties."

"Francesco is always reliable and possesses excellent qualities in handling disputes."

"He is always available and cooperative."

"Francesco is very dedicated to his clients and to getting deals done."

Ranked Lawyers at
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Francesco Sanna
2
Francesco Sanna
Head of Real Estate
2
Band 2

Members

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Francesco Sanna

Francesco Sanna

Head of Department

Clients

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AEW

Allianz Real Estate

Barings

CBRE

DeA Capital Real Estate SGR

DoveVivo

Generali Real Estate

Hines

Invesco

JLL

Lend Lease

Pilkington-NSG

StoneHill Group