Fielding a ‘well-established team with extensive knowledge of the real estate business’, Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría's four-member team is mandated to advise on a raft of real estate projects and deals, including residential condominiums and apartment buildings. The full-service real estate practice also covers office complexes, shopping centres, hotels, and urban and rural property development. Representative experience for the group ranges from tender offers, joint ventures and purchase and promissory sale agreements, to ownership title studies, incorporation of real estate companies, and sales and post-sale services. It further assists with construction agreements, urbanism, condominium regulations, marketing agreements, and mixed-use project-related co-owner relations, as well as financing, tax structures, M&A-related real estate assets, environmental impact studies, and real estate investors’ partnership agreements. The extensive real estate practice of department head José Tagle encompasses residential projects, office buildings, hotels, shopping centres, mixed-use developments, multi-family projects, and agricultural real estate investments. Tagle’s expertise further includes real estate investment funds, urban law and corporate real estate matters. In the associate ranks, principal Cristóbal Uriarte, ’performs exceptionally well in the real estate field’; while senior Macarena Gaitán has notable experience in high-stakes real estate transactions, in relation to residential developments, offices, energy projects, and agricultural and forestry-related investments.
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Testimonials
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- ‘A well-established team with extensive knowledge of the real estate business, which helps clients to find solutions.’
- ‘They respond quickly and are proactive.’
‘Speed and pro-business. PPU helps find solutions.’
‘The team works perfectly, being very diligent in responding to all company needs.’
‘Billing is handled very accurately and as agreed.’
‘Cristóbal Uriarte performs exceptionally well in the real estate field.’
Key clients
- Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
- Zofri
- Deka Inmobiliaria Chile One
- DWS | Rreef Management
- Royal Caribbean Cruises
- Abercrombie & Kent
- Desarrollos Inmobiliarios
- Corporacion Nacional Del Cobre De Chile (CODELCO)
- Anglo American
- Forest Investment Associates
- Credicorp Capital
- Territoria Apoquindo
Work highlights
Advised Deka on a new lease agreement entered into with CBRE for offices in the Titanium Building in Santiago.
Advised Royal Caribbean Cruises on the acquisition of 50% of the shares of Turismo y Hoteles Navarino, the owner of a hotel in Puerto Williams in southern Chile.
Assisted Forestal Santa Rosa Chile with the sale and purchase, via leasing, of a property in an industrial zone in Santiago.
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Practice head
José Tagle