Christian Gerhards
Christian Gerhards
Christian Gerhards
Biography
Christian Gerhards is an associate in BCLP's real estate team in Berlin.
He advises national and international investors, banks, asset managers, insurance companies and project developers on all real estate-related legal issues, in particular on real estate transactions and ongoing asset management. One focus of his work is on the interface with corporate law.
Christian studied law at Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and subsequently completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main. Before joining BCLP, he worked as a lawyer in the real estate department of a major international law firm in Frankfurt.
Admissions
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Germany
Related Practice Areas
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M&A & Corporate Finance
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Corporate
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Real Estate Sector
Experience
- Advised TwentyTwo Real Estate on the acquisition of Center Parcs Allgäu in Germany, one of the largest and most recent Center Parcs in Europe.
- Avised HartVestIng GmbH, sole shareholder of Hartmann Ingenieure GmbH, on the sale of 100% of the company's shares to the Green Landscaping Group. The acquisition was financed by cash and a non-cash capital increase of Green Landscaping Group.
Prior to BCLP:
- Advised The Carlyle Group on the acquisition of the German self-storage operator myStorage including a portfolio consisting of seven self-storage properties. The acquisition was made as a joint venture together with the British self-storage operator Safestore.
- Advised Generali Real Estate S.p.A. on the acquisition of a fully leased historic office and residential building located in Berlin-Mitte with a total lettable area of 8,000 sqm. Seller is Real I.S. Investment GmbH.
- Advised DBAG on its acquisition of akquinet and two data processing centers.
- Advised Dow Chemical Company on its participation in Hanseatic Energy Hub GmbH (HEH), the project company for the future LNG terminal at Stade industrial park (Lower Saxony, Germany), near the port of Hamburg. Dow takes a minority stake in HEH and is contributing the land for the construction of the terminal as well as infrastructure services, off-gas heat, site services and mutual harbor use rights. HEH will plan and build an LNG terminal, which is expected to provide regasification capacity of 13,3 billion cubic metres a year from 2026 onwards.
- Advised Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG together with Universal-Investment as capital management company on the acquisition of the multi-tenant office property "BELT" in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The property comprises a total lettable are of 8,865 sqm. Seller is a joint venture of the private equity company HighBrook Investors and the asset manager Aerium.
- Advised Commerz Real AG on the acquisition of a portfolio of four neighborhood developments for its open-ended real estate fund "HausInvest" from the project developer QUARTERBACK Immobilien AG. This includes the developments: "Wohnen am Kulturgleis" in Dresden, "Wohnen am Mönchsberg" in Jena as well as "Krystallpalast-Areal" and "Eliseneck" in Leipzig. After completion of the properties, it is expected that around 650 apartments, a hotel with 282 rooms and around 20,000 sqm of commercial space will have been newly developed.
Resources
Publications
Stefan Glasmacher, Christian Gerhards
Aufsatz | Das Außenwirtschaftsrecht im M&A-Kontext | AnwZert HaGesR 6/2021
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