Emmanuel Vital-Durand

Practice Areas

Emmanuel Vital-Durand is a member of Gide's Public Law and Environment, Real Estate Transactions & Financing, and Projects (Finance & Infrastructure) practice groups. He specialises in regulatory and operational urban planning, the development of the public domain, and institutional issues. He advises public and private authorities on developing and carrying out their real estate and planning projects: feasibility analysis, instructing and obtaining authorisations from the relevant authorities, land acquisition terms and conditions, urban planning participations. In these fields, Emmanuel also draws on significant expertise in dispute resolution on behalf of public and private bodies throughout France.

He assists numerous project owners in the development and implementation of their projects. He also advises local authorities on the conclusion and execution of contracts relating to the development of their public or private property. It also monitors major development projects whose completion is linked to the intervention of national and local administrations: restructuring of the Gare d'Austerlitz on behalf of the construction group (120,000 m² with the associated real estate programme), completion of the Lyon-Turin rail link on behalf of the public contracting authority (EUR 8 billion), development of the PSG training centre in Poissy (78), development of logistics centres throughout France (Loiret, Eure-et-Loir, Paris region, etc.).

Career

Member of the Management Committee, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2018-2020)

Joins Gide Loyrette Nouel (1999)

Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2007)

Admitted to the Paris Bar (1999)

Deputy General Secretary to a parliamentary group at the French National Assembly (1994-1998)

Deputy Director for Development and Public Amenities to the Permanent Assembly of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (1990-1993)

Planning Law Researcher at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1988-1990)

Postgraduate degree (DEA) in domestic public law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (1986)

Graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris - public service section (1985)

Publications

"The right of pre-emption of businesses, commercial leases and land" (Available in French only, Urbanism and Development, October 2022)