About

For over 20 years Ekkehart Orth has been legal counsel to DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe’s security division. The bank has 4,000 employees and administers funds amounting to €172bn. Orth is in charge of all matters pertaining to investment funds and the market is full of praise for ‘his almost unique experience in terms of both its exceptionally broad range and its length’. Apart from countless large scale real estate transactions, he has also been key in resolving a range of real estate and investment law matters and cases. Whoever works with him realises from the very first moment that ‘again and again, with every new case, he takes a particular interest in it and displays incredible commitment’. ‘A lawyer to the core’.