Annette Relou

Annette Relou

Legal Director
Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam N.V.

Biography

Annette Relou is a legal director within Amsterdam Real Estate and focuses on commercial real estate transactions in the Netherlands.

Practice Focus

Annette has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, real estate development projects and real estate (re)financing.

She advises national and international clients on the legal aspects of commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, working closely with corporate teams and other specialists from real estate related disciplines such as tax advisers and (asset) finance specialists.

Her main focus is on data center developments, logistics, e-commerce/ retail business and transactions in the hotel and leisure sector.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised Intermediate Capital Group as purchaser with the EUR 100 million acquisition and the subsequent leaseback of the approximately 89,000 sq. m. Syngenta-facility located in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
  • Advised Archer Daniels Midland on a built-to-suit construction project for Olenex Edible Oils (a JV with Wilmar International) comprising a warehouse with offices, production hall, laboratory, experience center, car parking, truck waiting area, loading docks and facility services located in Zaandam.  
  • Advised ORPEA (as seller) on the sale and lease back transaction concerning a portfolio of 32 retirement homes and one office building located in the Netherlands, with Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance, acting on behalf of the Achmea Dutch Health Care Property Fund, as purchaser. 
  • Advised Petrofac in connection with a large off-shore project tendered by Dutch company TenneT. 
  • Assisted Abbott Laboratories B.V. with the development and construction of an extension of the existing Abbott plant located in Zwolle.
  • Advised Regeneron on a fit-out project for their offices located in Amsterdam. 

Admissions

  • Netherlands~Netherlands (2011)

Education

  • Maastricht University (Law Degree) (1987)

Languages

  • Dutch
  • English