Madowo Advocates handles all elements of property and real estate transactions, including title due diligence, sale-purchase, leasing, construction-development, mortgages, and litigation, for industrial, commercial, and residential properties. Aside from standard sale and buy transactions, our firm has a diverse range of real estate practice areas, including the following:
- Entry Level Strategy Planning: Entry level legal advice and structuring of Foreign Direct Investment for individual foreign investors, foreign companies Foreign Institutional Investors and NRIs/PIOs.(write these in full and put abbreviations in brackets).
- Location & Site Analysis and Title Due Diligence: Legal assistance for finalizing most favorable/preferred location and other allied searches including vetting of documents and verification of title.
- Due Diligence: Carrying out thorough and exhaustive client specific and also client specified (in particular instances) Due Diligences and similar exercises before advising clients.
- Legal Risk Identification and Appraisals: Identification of legal risks and arriving at appraisals through experts for real estate transactions, development projects and infrastructure projects.
- Drafting and execution of legal documentation like shareholder’s agreement, joint venture agreement, collaboration agreement, technology transfer agreement, Intellectual Property Right license and assignment agreements, indemnities etc.
- Finance and Re-financing: Legal assistance and advice for arranging project finance and also for arranging re-finance on existing projects. Auctioning/Bidding: Legal assistance and advice for auctioning, bidding and contesting for deals.
- Representation and liaising with Government authorities for securing various clearances from various Government authorities. Tax Structuring and Planning: Legal advice in structuring taxation strategy for Real
- Estate Projects (Income-Tax, Corporation tax etc.) and Tax Planning for the same. Transactional Compliance: Assistance in mandatory legal compliances for various transactions.
- Joint Ventures and Joint Developments: Advice on structuring of domestic as well as cross-border joint ventures and Joint Development Agreements. Real Estate Legal Advisory &
Litigation: Our Firm is adept in handling advisory and litigation in real estate related projects including the following work-
- Lease related Legal Assistance and Administration.
- Construction and Development of projects and related contracts.
- Complete legal procedural advice for regular Pre/Post Purchase/Sale and all relevant documentation including, Issuance of Letter-of-Intent, Public Notice, Agreement-to-Sale, Sale Deed etc.
- Appointment of Broker, Project Manager, Architect, Interior Decorator, Certified Surveyor, Certified Valuer, Civil Contractor and other Contractors and Sub-Contractors for the entire/part transaction/deal/project.
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation including Landlord/Tenant Proceedings: CRI’s(Write this in full and abbreviations in brackets) Litigation Practice Group handles, represents and advises client concerns in litigation and Dispute Resolution on a case-to-case basis vis-à-vis Landlord/Tenant, Buyer/Seller, Lessor/Lessee matter