This book is designed to systematize the legal framework governing the construction investment activities and to come up with a construction investment algorithm and to fill the vacuum and avoid the "secrecy" prevailing in the procedures for issuance of permits and authorizations for construction purposes

N. Dotsenko-Belous
Year of publication - 2006
Publisher - Yurydychna Praktyka
Number of pages - 544

This book is designed to systematize the legal framework governing the construction investment activities and to come up with a construction investment algorithm and to fill the vacuum and avoid the "secrecy" prevailing in the procedures for issuance of permits and authorizations for construction purposes. To this end, consideration is given to the legal status and role of each participant of the investment process in construction and legal relationship between them.

The publication offered for readers is an attempt to take an integrated approach to the consideration of a real estate construction cycle: from obtaining the building permit to operating the real estate.

Particular attention is focused on existing and prospective, traditional and exclusive construction financing schemes enabling the optimization of taxation.

In order to save the readers from troubles which may be caused by contractors, the guide particularly emphasizes the existing court practice and its development trends and, relying thereupon, offers legal strategies as an efficient weapon for combating competitors and mala fide contractors.

The publication provides "means of survival" and contains practical advice for each participant of the investment process.

This guide is intended for managers, lawyers, accountants, financial experts of the construction, investment, engineering, development, finance, and real estate companies, private equity investment institutions, and all those interested in legal aspects of the construction investment business.