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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