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21 October 2021
Dr. Dirk Debald
PartnerHamburg
Email [email protected]hoganlovells.com
Phone +49 40 419 93 523
LanguagesEnglish, German
Practice groupCorporate & Finance
very dedicated, excellent negotiator, also thinks commercially, with a good eye for detail when appropriate (client)
JUVE Handbook, 2020/2021
Dirk Debald focuses on real estate law. During his extensive career, he gathered particular experience and exceptional knowledge in real estate and corporate law as well as in commercial tenancy law.
Dirk's advice covers the entire life cycle of property – from transactions to financing, real estate outsourcing, real estate M&A, project development, portfolio management and renting. National and international investors, mainly of the institutional kind, open- and closed-ended funds as well as private family offices all belong to his clients.
Dirk has successfully completed many deals in the past in particular for special properties such as retail and office buildings, hotels, senior citizen homes and logistics centers. These contributed to Dirk being listed as "Recommended lawyer in the real estate sector" by Best Lawyers® for Germany and being a recommended lawyer for real estate in JUVE and Chambers Europe. Dirk is the head of the Hamburg real estate department. He went to university in Trier and spent some years in our Frankfurt office after that. Dirk spent quite some time working directly for one of our clients in Great Britain.
Awards and recognitions
2021/2022
Recommended lawyer and leading partner in real estate
JUVE handbook
2019
Ranked in Chambers Europe
Chambers Europe
2020
One of the world’s leading real estate lawyers
Who's Who Legal
2022
Listed for Real Estate
Best Lawyers™ in Germany
2021
Thought Leader Germany for Real Estate
Who's Who Legal
2022
Lawyer of the Year in Real Estate Law in Hamburg
Best Lawyers™ in Germany
Education and admissions
Education
Dr. iur., Trier University, 2005
Second State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court of Koblenz, 2002
First State Exam in Law, Trier University, 1999
Representative experience
Advising Groß & Partner on the acquisition of the FOUR T1 skyscraper by way of a forward share deal
Advising Union Investment on a number of projects, most recently on the acquisition of the headquarter of the shipping company Hamburg-Süd and on the acquisition of "Neue Balan Haus 27" in Munich
Advising Prologis on various projects, recently on the acquisition of 11 logistics properties in Berlin and the Rhein-Ruhr region with a total size of 548,200 sqm
Advising PATRIZIA on the sale of a logistics portfolio, the acquisition of a district center with a nursing home, the sale of Ericus-Contor in Hamburg and the acquisition of a nursing home portfolio
Advising Values Real Estate on the acquisition of the mixed-used district center “Zehlendorfer Welle” in Berlin
Advising MAS for example on the sale of a retail portfolio as well as on the acquisition of a shopping center in Flensburg as well as on asset management issues
Advising Warburg-HIH on the acquisition and sale of various office and logistics properties, recently on the sale of the office building "Schlump One" in Hamburg
Advising Commerzbank on the sale of its headquarters in Hamburg, on the lease of approx. 20,000 sqm of space in Hamburg and on the sale of two properties in Berlin
Latest thinking and events
Press Releases
Hogan Lovells advises Klöpfer & Königer on transfer of operations
24 September 2021
Press Releases
Hogan Lovells advises Groß & Partner on the sale of the FOUR T1 skyscraper in Frankfurt
30 July 2021
News
Reform of German merger control rules: Important changes for real estate transactions
20 January 2021
Events
Hogan Lovells at MIPIM 2019
12-15 March 2019
Awards and Rankings
Best Lawyers™ 2019: Hogan Lovells is ranked with 80 lawyers
22 June 2018
