EXPERTISE 

Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Edouard has been a partner with K&L Gates (9 years), Simmons & Simmons (5 years) and an associate at Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) (4 years) where he headed their real estate group after spending 8 years with major French law firms

Edouard Vitry, a partner in the firm’s Paris office, has more than 30 years of experience in real estate. He advises on all commercial real estate matters, with a particular focus on investment, finance, construction, real estate development and commercial leases. He has experience in all types of real estate work including due diligence, sale and purchase process, securitisation, drafting and negotiating contracts and leases, property disputes and ADR

Edouard acts for international and French clients including real estate funds, asset managers, developers, banks, builders, real estate companies, landlords, occupiers and insurance companies

Edouard's experience includes:

• Advising global interconnection and a data center company on the French real estate matters relating to an 80:20 joint venture agreement with a Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund to develop six hyperscale data centers in Europe for more than US$1 billion
• Advising an investment fund manager specialising in industrial assets related to seven French logistics assets acquisition for EUR 175 million from a real estate asset manager.
• Advising on the British Normandy Memorial project, to be built overlooking Gold Beach in Ver-sur-Mer (Calvados) where the D-Day landings took place on 6th June 1944 which commemorates the British military services and members of the civilian services who lost their lives in the Normandy Campaign, will record the names of the 23,000 men and women who died under British command
• Advising an investment firm based in Hong-Kong on the purchase of a luxury hotel in Paris from one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds for 344m €
• Advising a cooperative universal banking and insurance group and a funding institution on the financing of the largest youth hotel in France developed by an investment company