All too often, it is the most immobile investment goods that call for the most flexible strategies. Whether you are looking at an individual property or a group of properties, an asset deal or a share deal, a sale-and-lease-back transaction, spin-off or refinancing: We handle all aspects of a transaction, including tax and antitrust law, financing, corporate law issues and environmental law. Asset management and project development are additional focal areas.

In building law, we advise real-estate developers, construction companies, architects and specialty construction consultants in all phases of a construction project.
Our expertise extends from the contract structure through consultative services during the construction phase to the final inspection, including litigation that may arise. From the start, we strive to minimize the potential for conflict among the different parties involved in a construction project: by providing transparent contractual solutions customized to the respective project.
Aside from risk management, claim management is one of the key requirements for successful project management. Especially in regard to extensions of construction-completion dates, the importance of claim management can hardly be overestimated. In this respect, we help our clients during the construction phase manage and structure the documents needed to enforce justified claims and fight unjustified ones.
The goal is to prevent conflict from the start through transparent contractual design and communication.

Graf von Westphalen has won the annual Acquisition International Legal Award for "Real Estate Law Firm of the Year 2011."