Real Estate and Infrastructure

Outstanding Team

Real estate and infrastructure is an integral part of our legal services.  The practice comprises an exemplary team of lawyers with professional competence and extensive practical experience.  Our lawyers are regarded highly and trusted by our clients and have remained at the forefront of infrastructure and real estate legal practice.  Prior to joining Han Kun, many of our lawyers practiced with China's best-known real estate and infrastructure law firms and have been involved in many influential real estate deals.

Han Kun's real estate and infrastructure practice provides clients with comprehensive services, including land acquisition, project development and construction, EPC contract review and negotiation, project operations, investment exits, and others.  We lead the market in real estate and infrastructure-related investments and financings and have expertise in deals that include investing in and establishing real estate funds, project mergers and acquisitions, domestic and overseas REIT issuances, and various financing arrangements.

Han Kun provides one-stop real estate legal services throughout the entire deal process, including primary land development, area development, urban renewal, warehousing and logistics, industrial parks, shopping malls, hotels, long-term rental apartments, and rental housing.  Han Kun also has extensive experience in advising on infrastructure projects, such as highways, water affairs, rail transit, solid waste, hydropower, and wind power.

Core Practice Areas

• Mergers and acquisitions

− Legal structuring of onshore and offshore real estate acquisitions

− Legal due diligence of real estate and infrastructure deals

− M&A transaction documentation and negotiation

− Foreign exchange, tax, anti-trust and HSE matters related to M&A

• Investment and financing

−  Registration of onshore and offshore real estate funds

−  Public-private partnerships

−  Private equity investment and financing

−  Issuance of corporate bonds and special bonds

−  Real estate asset securitization, quasi-REITs and CMBS

−  Asset management under various financing arrangements

• Property management and commercial management

− Commercial arrangements related to property management and commercial management

−  Tax planning related to property management and commercial management

−  Acquisition of property management companies

−  Listing of property management companies and commercial management companies

−  Lease-related legal services

−  Drafting and negotiating hotel management contracts

• Listing and refinancing

−  IPOs of real estate and infrastructure companies on domestic and overseas capital markets

−  M&A and restructurings of real estate and infrastructure companies

−  Spin-offs and listings of real estate and infrastructure companies

−  Establishment and listing of real estate investment trusts (REITs)

−  REIT follow-on fundraisings [HK1] and asset acquisitions

• Land development

−  Formulation of various land development models and related commercial conditions

− Land investment and development agreements, land use right pre-application agreements, and land transaction agreements

−  Comprehensive land development

−  Urban renewal

• Dispute resolution

−  Dispute resolution related to real estate financing

−  Dispute resolution related to real estate investment

−  Dispute resolution related to EPC contracts

−  Dispute resolution related to franchise contracts