Blatter Seynaeve,
law firm specialising
in real estate law
and commercial
and professional leases.

Attorneys

For almost 50 years, Blatter Seynaeve has been advising, defending and training its clients on the complex legal issues arising from real estate transactions and leases of all kinds (particularly commercial and professional leases).

A true French institution in the field of commercial lease law, Blatter Seynaeve’s signature is synonymous with technical excellence, unanimously recognised by its peers and clients, and with extensive practical experience in a wide variety of economic sectors: luxury business, mass distribution, real estate development, banking, insurance, publishing, advertising, manufacturing, etc.

Jean-Pierre Blatter has brought together a group of attorneys specialising in real estate and lease law, with the aim of providing highly technical support, combining knowledge, pedagogy, anticipation, imagination and strategy, essential qualities for players in a constantly changing real estate sector.

In order to fully accomplish their mission, the firm’s attorneys strive to provide expert advice as well as to take an active role in litigation.

Their mission consists in anticipating in order to prevent disputes, defining a strategy and rigorously drafting the deeds which seal agreements and contracts. In litigation, Blatter Seynaeve focuses on asserting and protecting its clients’ rights, structuring the solution to the dispute, setting a timeframe for it, pleading, settling and conciliating, if necessary, in order to reach a successful outcome. In this spirit, the firm constantly involves its clients in the choices to be made and keeps them informed of the progress of their cases.

For almost 50 years, Blatter Seynaeve has been advising, defending and training its clients on the complex legal issues arising from real estate transactions and leases of all kinds (particularly commercial and professional leases).

A true French institution in the field of commercial lease law, Blatter Seynaeve’s signature is synonymous with technical excellence, unanimously recognised by its peers and clients, and with extensive practical experience in a wide variety of economic sectors: luxury business, mass distribution, real estate development, banking, insurance, publishing, advertising, manufacturing, etc.

Jean-Pierre Blatter has brought together a group of attorneys specialising in real estate and lease law, with the aim of providing highly technical support, combining knowledge, pedagogy, anticipation, imagination and strategy, essential qualities for players in a constantly changing real estate sector.

In order to fully accomplish their mission, the firm’s attorneys strive to provide expert advice as well as to take an active role in litigation.

Their mission consists in anticipating in order to prevent disputes, defining a strategy and rigorously drafting the deeds which seal agreements and contracts. In litigation, Blatter Seynaeve focuses on asserting and protecting its clients’ rights, structuring the solution to the dispute, setting a timeframe for it, pleading, settling and conciliating, if necessary, in order to reach a successful outcome. In this spirit, the firm constantly involves its clients in the choices to be made and keeps them informed of the progress of their cases.

1971

Founding of the firm

1994

First edition of the Treatise on Commercial Leases (Traité des baux commerciaux)

1997

Arrival of Jean-Luc Seynaeve

2004

Arrival of Philippe Chatellard, Winifred Blatter Hodara and Samuel Guillaume

2017

Sixth edition of the Treatise on Commercial Leases (Traité des baux commerciaux)

Where tradition

meets modernity

   Once laws are drafted, they remain as they were written. Men, on the other hand, never stand still; they act.   

Portalis

Real estate law, and more specifically lease law, is one of the most evolving areas of French law. Originally rarely codified, legislators and case law are constantly upgrading it, making it ever more complex.

Practicing in the field of real estate implies working hand-in-hand with a specialist who masters both the scientific background of the subject and the objectives pursued by legislators in order to fulfil the clients’ aspirations.

From the outset, Blatter Seynaeve has conciliated a theoretical and practical approach, and has made its extensive doctrinal activity an essential pillar of its field support, making clarity in each of its solutions and pedagogy for its clients its key commitments.

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A diversified customer base

Very large French and international companies, CAC 40 companies, listed and unlisted real estate companies, investment funds, banks and insurers, public companies and local authorities, property and asset managers, as well as private lessors or lessees, make up the firm’s regular clientele and value its availability, its strict commitment to ethics and business confidentiality.

Engagements

Anticipation

Embracing a perspective of anticipation and long-term management.

Responsiveness

Responding with the vivacity required in business life.

Precision

All partners are certified specialists in real estate law and commercial and professional leases.