Dr. Dirk Debald
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, German
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Legal 500 Germany 2023'Dirk Debald is the most responsive, knowledgeable and commercially minded real estate lawyer I have worked with in Germany’, client
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.
Legal 500 Germany 2024Dirk Debald is characterised by his responsiveness, his knowledge of the German market and his ability to find ways out of difficult situations.
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
Credentials
- Dr. iur., Trier University, 2005
- Second State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court of Koblenz, 2002
- First State Exam in Law, Trier University, 1999