CEE Legal Matters
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Unauthorized constructions have been a prominent issue in Greek reality for decades, leading to repeated legislative attempts to address it. Currently applicable legislation (law 4495/2017) provides for legalization of such unauthorized constructions, as well as arbitrary changes of use, subject to conditions and further to submission of statements, payment of fines, etc.
Papapolitis & Papapolitis has advised Intrakat on the acquisition of a EUR 600 million real estate portfolio from Prodea Investments.
Several provisions of the new Act on Hungarian Architecture ("Architecture Act") entered into force on 1 October 2024, as a result of which the previous Building Act was repealed. The Architecture Act has taken over and supplemented many of the provisions of the previous Building Act, however, also contains a number of new rules.
Dentons has advised Cavare on the sale of the Ostrobramska Project in Warsaw to LifeSpot. Rymarz Zdort Maruta advised LifeSpot.
While legal professionals may not possess the solution for upcoming winter to the widely discussed problem of frozen Tesla door handles or expertise in selecting personalized lock sounds for electric vehicles (EVs), we do offer valuable advice for landlords aiming to integrate their current property infrastructure with the growing prevalence of EV charging stations.
DWF Poland has successfully represented Mostostal Warszawa in a commercial dispute against one of its contractors.
Linklaters has advised Resi4Rent on the acquisition of a plot of land at 127 Kilinskiego Street in Lodz.
