Company: Avigna Private Limited

Office Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience: 7 Years

Department: Real Estate

Sub-Profile : Real Estate & Investments

Project Geography : Pan India - Primarily Karnataka Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra.

Organisation is seeking a field-oriented core Real Estate Research Lawyer to conduct on-ground due diligence for land and asset aggregation, acquisitions, or mergers helps identify legal risks, confirm ownership and rights, and ensure the transaction is properly structured and documented. The exact scope depends on the jurisdiction, asset type, and transaction documents.

Key responsibilities

1. Define and coordinate the due-diligence review

- Agree the scope, timetable, materiality thresholds, and required documents with the client and transaction team.
- Set up or review the legal due-diligence checklist and data room.
- Coordinate with tax, finance, planning, environmental, technical, and other advisers.
- Track information requests, missing documents, and key deadlines.

2. Verify title and ownership

- Review title deeds, land-register or cadastral records, surveys, and historical transfers.
- Confirm the sellers legal ownership and authority to sell or transfer the property.
- Identify mortgages, liens, charges, easements, rights of way, covenants, restrictions, claims, or competing interests.
- Check boundaries, access, possession, and whether the land described in the documents matches the land being acquired.

3. Review land rights and property interests

- Examine leases, licences, tenancy arrangements, concessions, options, rights of first refusal, and development agreements.
- Assess rent, term, renewal and termination rights, rent reviews, security deposits, defaults,



and change-of-control or assignment provisions.
- Identify occupants, informal users, disputed possession, or vacant-possession requirements.

4. Assess regulatory and development matters

- Review zoning, land-use designations, planning permissions, building approvals, and development obligations.
- Check permits, registrations, certificates, and other statutory approvals relevant to ownership or use.
- Identify restrictions affecting construction, redevelopment, subdivision, or a change in use.
- Coordinate specialist reviews for environmental, contamination, heritage, infrastructure, and building-condition risks.

5. Review corporate and transaction authority

- Verify the legal status, ownership, and authority of the seller, target company, or asset-holding entities.
- Review constitutional documents, board and shareholder approvals, and relevant financing or shareholder agreements.
- Identify consents required from lenders, landlords, tenants, regulators, partners, or other stakeholders.
- Assess whether the transaction triggers change-of-control, pre-emption, or transfer restrictions.

6. Examine contracts, liabilities, and disputes

- Review property-management, construction, service, utilities, insurance, and other material contracts.
- Check for litigation, arbitration, enforcement notices, tax disputes, unpaid charges, defaults,



or threatened claims.
- Identify obligations that may transfer to the buyer or remain with the target after completion.

7. Advise on transaction structure and risk allocation

- Compare an asset purchase with a share or merger transaction from a property-law perspective.
- Explain material risks and recommend protections, such as conditions precedent, warranties, indemnities, retentions, escrow, or specific covenants.
- Advise on title regularisation, required consents, and steps needed before signing or completion.
- Support aggregation of multiple parcels or assets, including coordinating titles, access rights, and transfer mechanics.

1. Report findings and support closing

- Prepare a explicit due-diligence report or risk matrix that ranks findings by significance and recommends actions.
- Draft or review purchase, share, merger, transfer, disclosure, and ancillary definitive documents.
- Manage or support signing and completion requirements, including registrations, releases of security, delivery of title documents, and post-completion filings.
- Confirm that agreed legal remedies and outstanding actions are reflected in the transaction documents.

A strong due-diligence review distinguishes between deal-critical issues, risks that can be managed through contractual protections and items that require further investigation. Property registration procedures, title systems, planning rules, and statutory requirements vary by jurisdiction, so local counsel and relevant technical specialists are often essential. If the role matches, please share your profile to [email protected]

Thanks & regards,

Revathy H

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📌 Real Estate Research Lawyer, Bangalore, Male, Immediate Joiner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Avigna Group
📍 Bengaluru