De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Structure Division: The activities of the Structure Division cover litigation and transactional work in connection with economic actor’s assets, governance and financing.

Firm partner, Catherine Castro has strong expertise in the real estate sector: acquisitions/takeovers of completed or in future state of completion buildings, acquisitions/takeovers of immovable assets portfolios, sale and leaseback, leases (commercial leases, including in future state of completion), construction and property development. Catherine Castro specialises in all kinds of assets: offices, warehouses, complex buildings. She participated in numerous transactions in the hotel industry in France and abroad (takeovers, acquisitions, financing, sale and leaseback) as well as in the drafting and negotiation of management or construction agreements. In terms of commercial leases, Catherine Castro assists and advises more particularly occupants including for the performance of works and the implementation of good environmental practices.

French, English.

Catherine Castro was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1996.

Postgraduate degree (DESS) in IP/IT Law (Paris-XI University, 1994); Master's degree in Private Business Law (Paris-XI University, 1993).