Real Estate
Europe Guide 2024 : Germany
Band 3
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Provided by Linklaters
Linklaters advises leading international investors, asset managers, companies, property owners and sponsors on complex challenges in the real estate sector. Our clients trust in our integrated expertise in all areas relevant for real estate transactions. As a full service provider offering advice on legal and tax issues in the real estate industry, Linklaters can rely on the necessary resources to meet the client’s requirements and demands in any respect.
Our cross-practice team not only includes real estate experts, but also experts specialising in corporate, tax, finance, investment and regulatory law. Our team is well-established and able to cover all relevant topics with specialist advice due to its broad-based approach. More than 40 experts provide real estate advice from our offices in Germany; globally, there are more than 350 lawyers, tax advisers, auditors and notaries. As a result, we are able to provide our clients with integrated and seamless advice, including comprehensive services, nearly all over the world – assuring a constant degree of high quality service. Despite their different legal backgrounds all our advisers have one thing in common: their passion for the asset class real estate.
We are specialists in the area of: real estate acquisitions and sales (including portfolio transactions), project development, real estate financing, issues facing [German] institutional investors abroad, notarisation.
Chambers Review
Linklaters' transactional real estate team advises real estate investment companies, private equity firms and financial institutions on big-ticket, multi-jurisdictional portfolio acquisitions and sales, as well as classic real estate M&A and joint ventures. The team is also experienced in advising multi-jurisdictional investor consortiums. The firm is particularly strong in the logistics sector, while also handling deals in the commercial and retail property fields.
Work Highlights
- Linklaters advised CBRE Investment Management on the acquisition from Vonovia of a EUR560 million portfolio of five properties with 1,350 residential units located in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are very conscientious of multi-jurisdictional frameworks and provisions due to their global coverage, and this is invaluable for us."
"They are very flexible and agile. The team works with us more as colleagues than external vendors."
"They are some of our best partners in Germany to get our deals over the line, with excellence, incredible attention to detail and a highly commercially driven approach."
"As a team, they have been very efficient in organising and analysing the due diligence results, advising us of the risks and seeking solutions for any material findings."
"They are very conscientious of multi-jurisdictional frameworks and provisions due to their global coverage, and this is invaluable for us."
"They are very flexible and agile. The team works with us more as colleagues than external vendors."
"They are some of our best partners in Germany to get our deals over the line, with excellence, incredible attention to detail and a highly commercially driven approach."
"As a team, they have been very efficient in organising and analysing the due diligence results, advising us of the risks and seeking solutions for any material findings."
Notable Practitioners
Wolfram Krüger is head of the Linklaters transactional real estate practice. He acts for a range of domestic and multinational clients on the acquisition and sale of real estate assets, as well as taking on restructuring mandates and real estate M&A.
"He always seems to have a solution and always gives you comfort and confidence in his counsel."
"I appreciate Wolfram’s ability to stay calm in the most stressful situations and structure complex topics in a way that I, as a client, can make an educated decision."