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Dr Olaf Meisen

Partner

Frankfurt am Main

Meisen Olaf
Dr Olaf Meisen

Partner

Frankfurt am Main

Olaf is a member of the German Alternative Investments Group and heads the German Real Estate Finance department. He is an expert in national and international real estate finance and restructuring. He advises on all aspects of real estate finance, including mortgage loans, loans to be refinanced by German covered bonds (Pfandbriefe), senior and mezzanine loans, real estate development finance, real estate structured finance and MBS (Mortgage-Backed Securities) originations and securitisations, portfolio deals, sale-and-lease-back structures, share deals and asset deals, investment fund finance as well as loan sales (especially, non-performing loans).

His client base comprises German mortgage banks (Pfandbriefbanken), international banks, insurance companies and pension funds as well as institutional investors, private equity houses, housing companies, asset managers, real estate developers and real estate funds. He has particular experience of advising on complex cross-border transactions, major domestic financings as well as Pfandbrief financings. A second focus of his practice are cross-border restructurings and work-outs of German real estate financings.

Olaf chaired the working group responsible for preparing the German LMA facility agreement for real estate financing by the Loan Market Association.

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Office

Frankfurt am Main

Bockenheimer Landstraße 2
60306 Frankfurt am Main

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 2001

Academic

Dr iur, University of Cologne, Germany, 2006

Second German Law Degree, 2001

First German Law Degree, Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany, 1998