Clifford Chance interdisciplinary approach focuses on real estate investment and transaction support, including related financing and tax structuring as well as property repositioning, project developments, joint venture structures, fund structuring and tenancies; this is complemented by expertise in related contentious matters. The team covers numerous asset classes with a particular focus on specialist properties such as logistics, data centers and hospitals. Practice head Christian Keilich supports both national and cross-border real estate investments, transactions and development projects. Fabian Böhm regularly assists with portfolio transactions and is frequently instructed by investors and banks on financing and refinancing, while Philipp Stoecker comprehensively covers civil law matters in the real estate sector and boasts additional expertise in transactions and investments.

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  • 'The team is always enthusiastic, insightful and familiar with our personal situation. Our contacts work longer than average at Clifford Chance, which seems to confirm the good internal cooperation.'
  • 'Very deep expertise, at the same time friendly advice.'
  • 'Thomas Reischauer understands our pragmatic way of working and therefore concentrates his advice on the topics that are important to us. This always led to the desired solutions. Thomas Reischauer has the gift of explaining complex topics in very simple words.'
  • 'Thomas Reischauer is very pragmatic and practical, an excellent lawyer.'
  • 'Great industry knowledge, strong team. One can see that Clifford Chance decided many years ago that real estate law was one of their areas of focus and has consistently followed through on this strategically.'
  • 'Christian Keilich has a good team in terms of seniority and professional specialization. Excellent internal collaboration also with the tax team in terms of structuring transactions (truly 'hand in hand').'

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Practice head

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Christian Keilich

Other key lawyers

Philipp Stoecker, Fabian Böhm, Thomas Reischauer