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Christian Schede

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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Rechtsanwalt/Managing Shareholder

Career

Christian Schede is Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig Germany and chairs the firm’s German Real Estate Sector Group. He focuses on complex M&A transactions in real estate, infrastructure and related financings as well as project developments.

Christian’s experience covers all real estate asset classes as well as projects in the energy and transportation sectors. His expertise includes advising on joint ventures, investment management platforms, and restructuring of property and infrastructure investments. Christian represents major national and international institutional investors, private equity funds, real estate companies and infrastructure funds as well as financiers, developers, investment managers and government bodies.

Christian is recognized by several legal directories as a leading lawyer in his field and ranked among the leading senior partners in the German real estate market by JUVE. He was awarded “Lawyer of the Year” for Real Estate Law by Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers several times. He is perceived as a “highly connected lawyer with considerable negotiating skills” (The Legal 500, 2017) and “excellent expertise with broad scope of work” and “goal-oriented working ethics” (JUVE, 2019). Christian frequently speaks at leading real estate industry events.

Prior to Greenberg Traurig, Christian used to be Managing Partner at Olswang Germany and was a partner in the Real Estate Group at Freshfields.

Concentrations
Corporate/M&A and joint ventures
Real estate transactions
Real estate financings and restructurings
Project developments and infrastructure projects
Investment regulations
Digital real estate

Capabilities
Real Estate
Real Estate Funds
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Real Estate Operations
Retail

Admission to Practice
Germany

Languages

German
English

Education

  • LL.M., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C./USA, 1996
  • Second Legal State Exam, Second Legal State Exam, Bamberg/Germany, 1995
  • Dr. iur., Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, 1994
  • Stagiaire, European Commission, Cabinet Schmidhuber, GD XXIII, Brussels/Belgium, 1994
  • First Legal State Exam, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, First Legal State Exam, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, 1992

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Real estate and construction > Real estate

(Hall of Fame)

Christian Schede – Greenberg Traurig Germany

Greenberg Traurig Germany is among the leading practices in real estate law and is experienced in pan-European transaction support including related financing thanks to the international network. The full service also covers project developments, asset management and restructuring pertaining to distressed properties and project developments, Henning Sieber is a key contact for the latter. Cross-practice capacities include supporting operator-run properties, such as co-working office spaces, student residencies, supported living accommodation, district developments as well as tenancy developments in interfacing tax, corporate and civil law matters. The team acts across all asset classes and places a focus on logistics and commercial properties. Practice head Florian Rösch complements this offering with relevant experience in dispute resolution, including litigation. Co-chair of the global real estate practice Christian Schede (transactions and financing) and managing partner of the German office and co-chair of the corporate group Peter Schorling (transactions) are other key contacts. Silke Köhler, who is experienced in advising real estate investors (commercial tenancy agreements, property and asset management), was appointed to partner in January 2023.

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