GERMANY LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Wolfram H Krüger, Barbara Rybka, Markus Wollenhaupt and Alexander Zitzl, Linklaters
Linklaters is a full-service provider offering in - ternational advice on legal and tax issues in the real estate industry, which gives it a lead - ing edge in meeting client requirements and de - mands. The cross-practice team includes real estate experts and specialists in corporate, tax, finance, investment, competition and regula - tory law. With more than 50 real estate lawyers in the Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin offices and over 350 real estate lawyers globally, the firm’s real estate team is chosen by leading global investors, developers, occupiers and financial
institutions to advise on their largest and most complex or multi-jurisdictional real estate trans - actions and disputes. The practice, inter alia, advises private equity clients (eg, Blackstone, BlackRock, Cerberus), funds and institutional investors (eg, BNP Paribas REIM, CBRE Invest - ment Management, GARBE, DWS), as well as a number of Asian clients (eg, Hanwha, Frasers, Huazhu Group, Samsung, CapitaLand). The firm acknowledges with thanks the contri - bution made to this chapter by Isabelle-Carmen Weis at Linklaters LLP.
Authors
Wolfram H Krüger is a partner and leads Linklaters’ German real estate practice. Wolfram has extensive experience in advising investors, banks, insurance companies and institutional
Barbara Rybka is a managing associate at Linklaters and specialises in advising both national and international investors and banks on real estate issues. She is
funds on transactions across Europe, with a particular focus on portfolio transactions. His expertise spans the corporate, finance and tax elements of deals. He also advises on distressed assets and is a member of the firm’s Asia initiative. Wolfram has developed some of the market’s most innovative structures, including the joint portfolio sale by three funds with diverse histories, cultures and regulatory regimes. He is also a notary and the co-publisher and author of the comprehensive practitioners’ handbook on real estate transactions.
experienced in complex single asset and portfolio transactions, including sale-and- leaseback transactions. Her areas of expertise covers aspects of the entire real estate life cycle, from acquisitions through (re)financing, leasing, property and asset management, to sales and restructuring. Barbara is a member of the registered association Women in the Real Estate Industry (Frauen in der Immobilienwirtschaft e.V.) and is co-author of a 2020 real estate M&A guide for Germany.
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