Awards and Rankings
Best Lawyers™ Germany 2020: 86 Recognized Lawyers, five of them Lawyers of the Year
28 June 2019
Dr. Dirk Debald
PartnerHamburg
Email dirk.debald@hoganlovells.com
Phone +49 40 419 93 523
LanguagesEnglish, German
Practice groupCorporate
very experienced in the financing business and also on the asset side, pleasant negotiating partner (a competitor)
JUVE Handbook, 2018/2019
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
2018/2019
Recommended lawyer and leading partner in real estate
JUVE handbook
2019
Ranked in Chambers Europe
Chambers Europe
2019
One of the world’s leading real estate lawyers
Who's Who Legal
2020
Listed for Real Estate
Edition Best Lawyers™ in Germany
2019
Thought Leader Germany for Real Estate
Who's Who Legal
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 Union Investment on the acquisition of one of the high-rise buildings of the Four Area in Frankfurt and a logistics portfolio, each by way of a forward deal.
Advising Patrizia Gewerbeinvest KAG on the acquisition of an office building in Düsseldorf and Münster.
Advising alstria office REIT-AG on the acquisition of an office building in Düsseldorf and Hamburg, on the sale of logistics properties and different asset management issues.
Advising Hillwood on the acquisition, development, leasing and sale of logistics properties in Germany.
Advising Commerzbank on the sale of its headquarters in Hamburg and on the rental of approx. 20,000 sqm of space in Hamburg as well as on the sale of two properties in Berlin.
Advising BUSS Group, Hanjin, Disney and Barclay, each regarding a lease agreement for new office space in Hamburg and Frankfurt.
Advising Prologis on the sale of a logistics portfolio in Europe and the United States to an Asian investor as well as on asset management issues.
Advising Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate on the acquisition of the quarter at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and the sale of a logistics property in Krefeld.
Advising HansaInvest on the acquisition of a residential real estate portfolio by way of a forward funding share deal in Berlin.
Advising SEGRO on the sale of a logistics portfolio in Germany as well as on asset management issues.
Advising MAS on the acquisition of a shopping center in Flensburg as well as on asset management issues.
