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Dr. Carsten Loll, one of the leading German real estate lawyers, advises clients on complex real estate and private equity transactions. Carsten Loll draws on extensive 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 Joint ventures and real estate M&A He is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a member of the Advisory Board Germany. From 2012 to 2018, he was Local Chair of the ULI in Munich and a member of the ULI Executive Committee Germany. He is also a member of the gif Gesellschaft für Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung e.V. / International Real Estate Society (IHRES), the German-British Lawyers Association and the German-American Lawyers Association.

Conrad Andersen is an infrastructure partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and serves as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group. Conrad advises a diverse range of infrastructure funds, investors, and financial institutions on all aspects of core and hybrid infrastructure on complex infrastructure financing and acquisition transactions. Mr. Andersen has significant experience advising infrastructure funds, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and pension funds. He has significant experience advising clients across all infrastructure sectors, including, among others, airports, energy infrastructure, digital infrastructure, and utilities.

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James Burnett is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm’s corporate department. His practice includes representing investment banking firms, private equity firms, and companies in public and private debt and equity offerings, bridge loans, acquisition financing and liability management transactions, with a particular emphasis on issuances of high yield debt securities and leveraged transactions.

Jeff Lawlis, Global Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Capital Markets Practice, advises companies, sponsors, and investment banks on cross-border corporate finance transactions involving complex structuring issues. Mr. Lawlis serves as a go-to advisor to many clients on their full range of financing needs. He brings particular experience in leveraged finance and high yield bridge and bond transactions, as well as other debt and equity capital markets offerings, including private placements, and liability management transactions. Mr. Lawlis regularly advises on the financing aspects of M&A transactions, while also providing advice on general corporate and securities law matters. Drawing on more than two decades of on-the-ground experience in Europe, Mr. Lawlis delivers sophisticated and business-driven counsel with a focus on the Italian, Spanish, and Greek markets.

John Colahan is a partner in Latham & Watkins’ London office. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Mr Colahan was the International Antitrust Counsel, based in London, for The Coca-Cola Company where his responsibilities included advising all operating groups on strategic planning and implementation of a wide variety of international joint ventures and acquisitions as well as the conduct of international antitrust litigation and investigations. Mr Colahan has also served as a legal adviser on European law to the European secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office and has represented the UK in numerous cases. He represents clients before the European Commission, national authorities in Europe and internationally, as well as conducting litigation in the European courts and numerous national courts. He has advised on a wide variety of international antitrust matters, including structuring and implementation of international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, cartel enforcement, single firm conduct and compliance counselling.

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Otto von Gruben advises German and international clients on complex M&A and real estate transactions, often in a cross-border context. Drawing on his breadth of experience across a full spectrum of transactional matters, Mr. von Gruben 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 the real estate, automotive, and healthcare sectors. Mr. von Gruben's practice includes: Corporate real estate and real estate private equity transactions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity transactions Joint ventures Distressed transactions Mr. von Gruben combines a results-driven sensibility and a knowledge of the key market players to complete both German and cross-border deals efficiently. In particular, he frequently navigates clients’ most intricate transactions involving novel structures and complex international considerations.

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Rebecca C. Crowley is a member of the Finance Department who focuses on the infrastructure and core-plus infrastructure sector, with particular experience in cross-border acquisition financing. She acts for sponsors, corporate borrowers, and lenders (infrastructure funds, bank lenders, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and pension funds) on a broad range of capital structures, including loans and notes structures. She has significant experience handling fiber and energy transactions.

Seonaid Todisco is a partner in the Finance Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins. Ms. Todisco specializes in all aspects of core and hybrid infrastructure, acting for a wide range of infrastructure funds, bank lenders, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and pension funds.

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Thomas Forschbach is a partner in Latham & Watkins' London and Paris offices. He has advised international clients on mergers and acquisitions and private equity for over 25 years and is one of Europe’s most experienced and renowned lawyers in his field.