Real estate

Global presence for a global asset class

The scope, diversity, and complexity of projects in the real estate sector require holistic coverage, both geographically and technically, to support you with reliable and creative solutions in the successful implementation of your goals. This is exactly what our team of more than 500 real estate lawyers worldwide offers. We make it our priority to position you today safely for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.

For decades, a large number of different clients have relied on our advice. These include leading institutional investors, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, fund sponsors, public and private REITs, national and multinational companies, and real estate development, financing, and asset management players. We offer you a strong, integrated team that understands your business and can effectively, efficiently, and predictively answer all your real estate-related questions anywhere in the world. No other law firm can match our combination of many years of experience in the real estate sector, current industry knowledge, and global presence,

"They have deep working relationships with opposing attorneys from all over the globe, leading to efficient deal structuring and documentation."

We are convinced that a successful mandate relationship nvolves more than just executing individual transactions and formulating short-term solutions. Rather, we build long-term partnerships with our clients in which we anticipate challenges and opportunities that are on the horizon. Together with you, we develop creative and reliable solutions that fit your individual strategy.

IN GERMANY

Increasing sustainability requirements and advancing digitalization are also driving developments in the real estate industry. Construction and life cycle, investment decisions or financing options - new legal issues arise in almost all areas. Popular asset classes such as data centers are criticized by the enormous energy and water consumption, are particularly in focus as part of critical infrastructure and offer new options such as waste heat utilization. This example shows that it is fundamentally important to think interdisciplinary and beyond the currently existing legal and regulatory framework in all project phases, be it a new planning or existing real estate projects. Our aim is to develop reliable and secure answers to relevant questions for you in the future.

This is precisely where one of the strengths of our real estate practice lies in combination with our established sector approach: Thanks to broad expertise with a very high degree of specialization and an internationally comprehensive network, we can think beyond the legal horizon and at the same time pragmatically and efficiently develop new solutions for our clients.

We rely on a full-service approach and advise you in all areas of law relevant to the industry in a centrally coordinated manner from a single source. This includes asset management, transactions, financing and restructuring Furthermore, we offer extensive expertise in real estate, rental and construction law, in the legal support of real estate transactions and in infrastructure projects as well as in real estate financing. We advise on tax-efficient and complex investment structures, always with the aim of implementing our clients" projects quickly and legally, Our sector expertise, such as in the areas of energy and infrastructure as well as technology, ensures that we can see the big picture and also cover special aspects outside the traditional real estate industry. For example, we see and understand relevant questions about data protection or cybersecurity not only when advising on smart buildings or other propTech projects .

Our consulting priorities:

Land or portfolio purchase and sale, if necessary with preparatory due diligence and the establishment of data rooms

National and international real estate transactions . All facets of commercial tenancy law including appropriate litigation

Constant advice on all everyday issues of property management, location development, rental concepts, etc. for large administrative properties or property managers

Advising open and closed-end real estate funds in all legal matters

Advice on classic project developments, use and exploitation concepts

Special properties (industrial parks, leisure facilities, hotels, etc.)

Structuring of real estate assets

Advice on all construction law issues in coordination with participating specialist consultants

Real Estate Leasing, Sale and Lease Back, Real Estate Financing and Project Financing at Home and Abroad

Advising on corporate, tax and public law issues relating to real estate