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Claudia Hard

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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Partner/Rechtsanwältin

Career

Claudia Hard is a partner and heads the Finance & Banking Group in Germany. She focuses her practice on real estate, project and corporate finance.

Claudia has many years of experience in the field of acquisition and refinancing as well as restructuring in the real estate sector. In addition, she has deep experience in the area of Pfandbrief financing, both in Germany and in cross-border financing within Europe and the USA. Her clients include leading domestic and foreign banks, debt funds, loan servicers, private equity funds, institutional investors and public housing companies.

Claudia is recommended by leading lawyer directories as “smart and experienced” and “impressively good.” Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, she was a partner at Olswang Germany and previously worked in the real estate and the finance group at Freshfields and Clifford Chance in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and London.

Concentrations
Development Financing
Senior and Mezzanine Financing
Loan Transaction
Distressed Investments
Securitizations

Capabilities
Finance
Real Estate
Banking & Financial Services
Restructuring & Bankruptcy
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Real Estate Funds
Real Estate Finance

Admission to Practice
Germany
New York

Languages

German
English

Education

  • LL.M., The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
  • Second Legal State Exam, 2000
  • First Legal State Exam, Universität Potsdam /Germany, 1998

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Banking and finance > Real estate finance

(Hall of Fame)

Claudia Hard – Greenberg Traurig Germany

Greenberg Traurig Germany comprehensively advises on acquisition and development financing as well as financial restructuring, covering all real estate sectors, including office, retail and industrial. The team is instructed by both borrowers and lenders, which the team assists with bond agreements, refinancing, mezzanine structures and overall loan financing and also benefit from the firm’s international network in cross-border transactions. Both Anika Mitzkait and practice head Claudia Hard boast similar competencies; Hard also has expertise in bond financing and distressed investments, while Mitzkait is well versed in real estate law.

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