UAE Law and Practice Contributed by: Duncan Pickering, Nicola de Sylva and Sean Cope, DLA Piper Middle East LLP
DLA Piper Middle East LLP has a market- leading real estate offering, with an international multidisciplinary team of lawyers that can serve client needs globally across the real estate sector. The firm has more than 750 real estate lawyers operating in more than 40 countries around the world, serving clients in key real es - tate markets, with strongly established teams in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. DLA Piper works with clients through all stages of the real estate life cycle, including planning, acquiring, finding, develop -
ing, leasing, completing, trading and divesting. Working through this cycle, it offers the following services: financing, acquisitions and disposals, asset management, construction, cross-border investment, development, fund formation, joint ventures, leasing, litigation, planning, zoning and environmental issues, public-private part - nerships, REITs, restructuring and tax. The team works alongside investors, lenders, developers and managers on every aspect of their real es - tate activities. Nicola de Sylva is a legal director based in DLA Piper’s Abu Dhabi office, and has more than 17 years’ experience. She has been working in the region since 2013 and has extensive real estate experience, having been involved in a range of acquisition, divestment, project development, design build and lease agreements; commercial and retail leasing transactions; project developments (including mixed-use developments, retail, industrial and office premises); subdivision, community/strata titling and development schemes in respect of mixed-use developments; and development and establishment of hotels and serviced apartments (owner/operator).
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Duncan Pickering leads DLA Piper’s Middle East real estate practice group. He has more than 25 years’ experience in advising clients on real estate transactions, including
investment acquisitions and disposals as well as transactions with cross-border/complex structuring elements. He acts on the development and leasing of large mixed-use schemes. Duncan undertakes advisory engagements for clients across the Middle East relating to the design and implementation of regulatory systems for the registration and management of real estate at national and project levels. Duncan is now based in the UK, but his practice is still exclusively focused on clients and transactions in the Middle East.
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