Having completed important investment deals in 2015 and with several more transactions now in the offing, Wilson & Partners and its specialist real estate team continues to enjoy the kind of success that catapulted it into the Band 1 ranking it achieved in the Chambers & Partners directory. The Band 1 ranking is one of the highest honors legal firms can attain, as Chambers & Partners is regarded as providing one of the most comprehensive and accurate rankings of legal companies of any in the world.
The real estate team consists of 4 partners and 13 additional qualified lawyers, which together provides broad coverage of all stages of the real estate transactional and development life cycle. Wilson & Partners has extensive experience in high-end real estate, M&A, financing and leasing cases, and has acted for countless A-list developers and investors.
Clients aren’t faint with their praise of the company. “You can get these lawyers on the phone and feel like you are speaking to someone who gets the concepts, so I find them to be a very good sounding board to get a general feel for legal situations from a practical point of view.” They’re reassured by the firm’s strong track record with the most important commercial investors, as it indicates an ability to get deals done. Among its references, Wilson & Partners can point to Ballymore Properties, Deka Immobilien GmbH and Portland Trust. It also assisted Atrium European Real Estate with the acquisition of a majority stake in a partnership owning Arkady Pankrac shopping centre in Prague.
Among the firm’s top practitioners are Bryan Wilson, whose clients claim he has the rare ability to think both as a lawyer, and also as a businessman. “He is the best negotiator I know and my number one pick,” says one client. Of particular note is his commercial approach to large-scale property mandates. Martin Bendik is known as an attentive, highly client-centric real estate and commercial lawyer who knows the market well. He recently acted for BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management Germany and & Invesco Real Estate. Daniel Navratil, meanwhile, is valuable for his wide-ranging activities across the entire gamut of the Czech property market, having been involved recently with the acquisition of Slovansky Dum.
