Dr Olaf Meisen
Partner
Frankfurt am Main
Dr Olaf Meisen
Partner
Frankfurt am Main
Contact details
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.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Dr iur, University of Cologne, Germany, 2006
Second German Law Degree, 2001
First German Law Degree, Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany, 1998
Experience highlights
A leading global asset manager and alternative lender as borrower on a financing in the amount of approximately EUR454m to finance the acquisition of 16 Karstadt properties in Germany.
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) on the refinancing of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. (Volume: EUR1.1bn)
Vonovia as long-standing client on a large number of financing and refinancing transactions with a total volume of several billion euros. We have been advising Vonovia since the GRAND restructuring (2010-2012), which is one of the largest European real estate finance and CMBS refinancings since the financial crisis (volume: EUR4.3bn).
Senior/mezzanine facility ""Treptowers"": A group of financial institutions as lenders in connection with a senior/mezzanine development facility for the ""Treptowers"" office building in Berlin (volume: approx. EUR630m).
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Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Dr iur, University of Cologne, Germany, 2006
Second German Law Degree, 2001
First German Law Degree, Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany, 1998
