Real Estate Disputes

Experience - Stibbe acts as transaction counsel to Floating PV NV, a vehicle set up by Sibelco, Groep Machiels and Luminus to build five hectares of floating solar panels at Sibelco’s Schansheide quarry in Dessel, Flemish Region, Belgium, integrating various innovative techniques such as solar tracking that allows the panels to rotate with the sun, an adjusting slope angle, double-sided panels and active cooling.

Experience - Stibbe advises Aedifica, a Belgian listed company investing in health care real estate, for the fourth time within a short period of time.

Experience - Stibbe advises the Utrechtse Tulp consortium (Mourik/Volker Wessels) on a dispute with the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management in respect of the project concerning extensive maintenance and preparation of the extension of the national highways A27 and A28.

Experience - Stibbe advises A-Lanes A15 Mobility (Strabag, Strukton, Ballast Nedam) with regard to various discussions with Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat, RWS) in connection with the DBFM project A15 Maasvlakte-Vaanplein.

Experience - Stibbe advises Rabobank on the legal aspects of the renovation of its former head offices "the Spiegel Building" in Utrecht.

Experience - Stibbe advises the consortium of 3i, Heijmans, John Laing and Jan de Nul in connection with their bid for the contracting and financing of the Sealock IJmuiden PPP project. The project concerns the Design, Build, Financing and Maintenance for 26 years of the IJmuiden Sealock.  

Experience - Succesfully defended Ballast Nedam and Royal BAM in legal proceedings against the Province of Groningen regarding the "Blauwe Stad" (Blue City).

Experience - Advising Praxis since 2006 on legal support - both advice and litigation - concerning real estate related matters such as expansion and/or relocation of new and existing Praxis-branches.

Experience -   Stibbe represented the New Zealand listed logistics company Mainfreight in a post-M&A dispute. The dispute concerned a significant claim from Mainfreight following the acquisition of a major Dutch logistics group and also involved environmental and lease issues. The dispute was settled amicably in August 2013, culminating in an after tax gain for Mainfreight of NZD12.7 million.  

Experience - Advising DSM on the redevelopment of the DSM industrial site in Delft.