The real estate practice of Gasparini, Barbosa e Freire Advogados focuses on ensuring legal certainty in structuring and implementing real estate transactions and on preventing and resolving administrative or judicial obstacles to their completion.

The Firm’s activities include assistance with property rectification and regularisation procedures and possessory actions, updating property records, and advice on zoning, land use and development controls. The Firm advises on real estate developments, land subdivisions and the establishment of condominiums, including reviewing and drafting contracts for residential and commercial urban leases, rural leases, gratuitous loans for use of real property (comodato), purchases and sales of urban and rural properties, encumbrances over real property, real estate partnerships and property exchanges. Gasparini, Barbosa e Freire Advogados structures transactions to raise funds in the domestic market for real estate projects, including real estate investment funds, private equity investment funds, securitisation of real estate receivables and build-to-suit transactions. The Firm also has extensive experience in advising on the regularisation and acquisition of rural properties for timberland investments in Brazil and is recognised as a leading law firm in this field.