Contentious issues can arise in even the most carefully managed real estate portfolios. Our real estate litigation lawyers in Angola have the market understanding to offer legal advice about those issues that reflect our clients' business needs.
We also advise in relation to both high value and complex transactional work and day-to-day portfolio management issues, ranging from covenant and/or rights disputes on city center development sites to landlord and tenant issues such as the enforcement of tenant repair obligations.
Capabilities
We have extensive experience in complex and high-profile real estate disputes in land, residential, office, commercial, industrial and hotel business, and in particular, with respect to the following matters:
- disputes over the applicable law regime, termination, default and delivery of the asset in lease agreements
- disputes over non-compliance by the seller or buyer in the purchase and sale promissory agreements
- disputes over the definition of who owns the property right of the real estate and the request for delivery of the asset
- disputes over occupation of real estate assets and the judicial request for delivery and recovery of the assets
- disputes over lack of licensing of real estate assets and its judicial consequences
- disputes over the occupation and use of assets owned by other persons or entities and the definition of compensation
Experience has included advising:
- A real estate fund with large number of lease offices in lawsuits against tenants for non-payment of rent and / or delivery of offices;
- A technology company with a lawsuit against an occupant to recover possession of an important plot for construction of a building in Luanda CBD;
- A logistics company in a lawsuit for the repossession of land which was part its premises occupied by a third party and trespass claims and government revocation/acquisition of title to land;
- An investor who owns a shopping center with lawsuits against store users for termination or default of store-use agreements; and
- A client the in bankruptcy lawsuit of an Angolan bank that was a tenant, filing in the process a claim for outstanding rent recovery of real estate assets (offices and bank branch).