Real Estate 2025

GERMANY Trends and Developments

Trends and Developments Contributed by: Carsten Loll, Otto von Gruben, Ivo Veit Wanwitz and Sebastian von Hornung Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins provides innovative solu - tions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, the firm’s lawyers advise clients on market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, as well as sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham’s real estate practice guides clients through complex and high-stakes real estate transactions of every kind everywhere in the world. It regularly advises a full spectrum of market participants, including public and pri - vate investors, private equity, institutional in - vestors, developers, financial institutions, and alternative lenders. The firm’s capabilities com -

prehensively cover multi-jurisdictional real es - tate transactions, ranging from acquisition, dis - position, and development of large properties or property portfolios to corporate and finance matters. These include corporate M&A, joint ventures, public offerings, and LBOs, as well as REIT and UPREIT transactions. Latham also advises on all elements of transaction financ - ing, including construction financing, mortgage financing, mezzanine financing, securitisation, warehousing, loan-on-loan transactions, and mortgage debt portfolio acquisitions and fi - nancings.

Authors

Carsten Loll is one of the leading German private equity real estate lawyers, advising clients on complex real estate and private equity transactions. He draws on extensive

Otto von Gruben advises German and international clients on complex M&A and private equity real estate transactions, often in a cross-border context. Drawing on his breadth of

experience to guide private equity funds, institutional investors, and asset managers on their highest-value domestic and cross-border real estate matters, including asset and share deals, portfolio transactions across all asset classes, including office, retail, and logistics, as well as joint ventures and real estate M&A. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the Advisory Board Germany.

experience across a full spectrum of transactional matters, he serves a variety of public and private companies, including strategic investors, private equity, and sovereign wealth funds. His work covers a range of industries, with a particular focus on real estate and infrastructure. His practice includes corporate real estate and real estate private equity transactions, M&A and private equity transactions, joint ventures and distressed transactions.

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