An attorney since 2013, Simon Estival founded the property department of INLO Avocats in 2022.
Simon started at the Sorba Payrau law firm in 2013, before joining CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2015. His practice focuses on property law, where he works alongside public and private-sector clients to help them carry out their activities and implement their projects, particularly in the areas of property sales law, construction and property development law and leases, both as counsel and in litigation before the courts and in alternative dispute resolution (judicial mediation, conciliation and settlement).
Simon holds a certificate of specialisation in property law (CNB, 2022) and is a lecturer for the Master’s degree in property law (Tenancy Law) at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is also co-author of the Commercial Leases Francis Lefebvre Memento.
LANGUAGES :
- French
- English
Professional experience
- 2013-2015: associate at Sorba Payrau
- 2015-2022: associate at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
- Since 2022: partner at INLO Avocats
Education
- Certificate of specialisation in Property Law (CNB, 2022)
- Bar exam (French Bar School, 2013)
- Master’s degree in Property and Construction Law (Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 2012)
- Master’s degree in Asset Law (Paris XIII, 2011)
Associations & Networks
- AJEDIM-ASSAS
Publications
- “Home charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: what deployment for charging points in condominiums?” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – April 2021
- “Short-term rental of furnished tourist accommodation and change of use: prior authorisation regime and the respective obligations of lessors and intermediaries” – La Lettre de la Promotion et de l’Urbanisme – July 2020
- “ELAN Law and the sale of social housing: a simpler approach for HLM organisations?” – La Lettre de l’Immobilier – Option Finance – January 2020
- “Commercial lease and entry inspection: a reminder of current practices prior to the Pinel law” – La Lettre des Baux Commerciaux – January 2020
- “The energy renovation obligation: ELAN law, tertiary sector decree and draft tertiary sector order” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – December 2019
- “Work on existing buildings and failure to comply with earthquake-resistant standards: the applicability of the ten-year guarantee” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – December 2019
- “The end of the construction lease: the siren calls of substantive law” – La Lettre de l’Immobilier – Option Finance – November 2019
- “Sales in the future state of completion: late delivery clauses” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme.
- “Precarious occupancy agreement for an unapproved subtenant” – La Lettre des Baux Commerciaux – (French only).
- “Setting the eviction compensation in the event of the tenant’s voluntary departure” – La Lettre des Baux Commerciaux – July 2019
- “Property development contract (CPI): subcontractors’ direct action against project owners” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – June 2019
- “Non-conformity of works carried out by contractors and liability of the project manager: scope of the project manager’s mission under the architect’s contract” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – June 2019
- “Action in contractual liability against a contractor in the absence of acceptance of the works: request for expert appraisal, interruption and suspension of the period of limitation” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – June 2019
- “Dysfunctions in the sewage system and application of the ten-year guarantee: the unwritten nature of the clause in the deed of sale excluding the builders‘ ten-year guarantee” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – June 2019
- “The interim relief judge does not have the power to order the termination of a lease” – La Lettre des Baux Commerciaux – April 2019
- “Application to ongoing proceedings of the new definition of latent defects” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – March 2019
- “Conditions for the application of res judicata in matters of structural damage” – La Lettre de la Construction et de l’Urbanisme – March 2018
Contributions
- Training of a group of commercial property consultants on the subject of ‘leases in the future state of completion’.
- Presentation on the deployment of charging infrastructure in co-ownership buildings as part of a webinar on the subject of ‘Ecological transition – What legal, tax and social framework for the development of electric mobility in France? Key elements, points for attention and prospects’
- Training for a property developer on ‘the main provisions of the ELAN law’.
- Training for a property administrator on the law of 2 January 1970 regulating the conditions for carrying out activities relating to certain transactions involving property and business assets.
- Training for an electricity production and supply company: ‘Practical workshop: negotiating and drafting commercial lease clauses’
- Training for a French company in the construction sector on the subject of ‘Exercising project management’.
References
- Assistance to a project owner/user in the negotiation and drafting of contracts relating to the construction of a real estate complex for industrial use of approximately 150,000 m².
- Assistance to lessee with a bulk sale of 20 businesses.
- Assistance to lessee in the negotiation and drafting of a lease in the future state of completion relating to a retail area of approximately 7,500 m².
- Assistance to a landowner in the sale of more than 20,000 m² of land to be used for building.
- Assistance to a construction lessor in connection with the expiry of a construction lease on land on which a national chain hotel had been built.
- Acting as a subcontractor to leading law firms for the audit of leases in connection with the takeover of the assets of a transport and logistics company by a shipping company.
