Anton Cox > Linklaters > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Linklaters
AVENUE JOHN F. KENNEDY 35
L-1855 LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Anton is a real estate lawyer who has advised on transactions in Belgium and Luxembourg since 2001. He has headed Luxembourg’s downstream real estate practice since the beginning of 2015 and was promoted to Counsel in 2017.

Anton advises on the full range of issues within real estate, including incorporation and sale and purchase of real estate companies or real estate assets, real estate financing, environmental and town planning matters, litigation and structuring of projects. Anton’s practice also incorporates general commercial and contract law, construction law, agency and distribution law and projects.

Anton regularly speaks at local and international industry events, including the Meetincs annual Real Estate conference where he looked at “Commercial leases” and the IFE session on Real Estate in Luxembourg. Anton moderated Linklaters Luxembourg’s first Real Estate conference, gathering over 100 guests.

Languages

French, Dutch, and English

Memberships

Country of Admission: Belgium

Education

>2000 – 2001 Saint-Louis Fac. University, University Degree

>1997 – 2000 UCL Catholic University of Louvain, Law Degree

>1995 – 1997 Saint-Louis Fac. University, Law candidate

Lawyer Rankings

Luxembourg > Real estate and construction

Leaning into the firm’s broader corporate, banking, tax and investment funds practices, Linklaters deploys a cross-disciplinary approach to real estate work, providing ‘flexible, technical and commercial’ advice to institutional investors, end users and developers across a range of downstream investment work relating to office, retail and logistics buildings. Corporate real estate counsel Anton Cox is the main contact for this work and provides ‘straightforward and deal-oriented advice’ on acquisitions and disposals through share deals, as well as being well-versed in commercial leases and environmental and town planning matters. Patrick Geortay and Melinda Perera also handle finance work in the sector for borrowers and lenders.