Catherine
Castro

Catherine Castro advises on a wide range of property-related matters, including the acquisition/sale of buildings, whether constructed or in a future state of completion, the acquisition/sale of property portfolios, sale and leaseback, leases (including commercial leases in a future state of completion), construction and property development.
It is involved in all types of assets: offices, warehouses, shops, factories, logistics sites and complex buildings. She has carried out a number of transactions in the hotel sector in France and abroad (sale, acquisition, financing, sale and leaseback), as well as drafting and negotiating management contracts and building hotels.
When it comes to commercial leases, she advises and assists occupiers in particular, including in carrying out works and implementing good environmental practice. She also advises on construction projects for factories and logistics sites (project structuring, construction contracts, assistance with handover).

Capabilities

Practices

Sectors

Focus

Languages

• French
• English

Qualifications

• Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1996
• 1994 Postgraduate diploma (DESS) in computer law and new technologies, University of Paris-XI
• 1993 Master’s degree in private business law, University of Paris-XI

Bars

• Paris

Publications

• Speeches and training :
• April 2020: Webinar “Covid’s impacts on the renewable energy industry: what to do?”
• November 26, 2019: Breakfast conference for the legal commission of the Fédération Française de la Haute Couture: “Image and brand in real estate contracts”.
• November 2019: Training on commercial leases at the Val de France Immo real estate company
• October 18, 2019 : Breakfast conference for our customers and prospects, in collaboration with Alain Bétaille, legal expert, and Laurence Sprung, head of the investment department at Angéris: “Des Travaux et de Baux” (“Work and leases”).
• October 1, 2019: Breakfast conference for our customers and prospects: “Loi énergie climat: nous la décryptons pour vous” (“Energy and climate law: we decipher it for you”).
• April 12, 2018: Breakfast conference for our customers and prospects, co-hosted with Muriel Guillin-Modaine: “Commercial lease news”.
• March 30, 2017: Breakfast conference for clients and prospects, co-hosted with Muriel Guillin-Modaine: “Commercial lease news: case law and reform of the law of obligations”.
• January 2016: Training for the entire ICADE Group legal department on the reform of the law of obligations and real estate.
• Conference organized by SNCF’s legal department: “Commercial leases, the lessee’s opinion” (2012).
• Publications:
• May 4, 2020: Covid 19 and the suspension of professional and commercial rents: deconfinement and then what?
• April 24, 2020: Covid 19: stop or continue?
• March 31, 2020: Covid 19 and professional and commercial tenant obligations
• Catherine Castro, “Law firms conquering the real estate market”, Droit & patrimoine, November 2011
• Catherine Castro, Henri-Nicolas Fleurance, “The impact of the Grenelle laws on the valuation of real estate assets”, Option droit & affaires, December 2010
• Catherine Castro, Henri-Nicolas Fleurance, “Choosing between SNC and OPCI”, Option droit & affaires, December 2010