Christopher Szostak is a partner in the Real Estate team of Gide in Paris. He advises on investments, developments and joint ventures. He also has a lease and litigation practice.

Christopher is active in a wide breadth of industry segments including offices, retail, residential, industrial, self-storage, hotels and serviced residential. He acts on behalf of investors (listed property companies, funds, financial institutions), operators and end-users.

He was recently involved in the sale of a Paris shopping centre, and various acquisitions (office building in the Paris CBD, industrial asset forward sale, self-storage assets). He also advised on hotel projects (acquisitions, disposals, developments, hotel management agreements) and forward leases (e.g. industrial lease for around 120,000 sq.m., shopping centre anchor, office building in Paris CBD, self-storage asset).

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2002, Christopher has been a Solicitor since 2000. He holds an LL.B. in English and French law from King's College, London and a master's degree in private law from Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).