Alternative Investments
Today, alternative investments, such as real estate, private equity, private debt, loan portfolios, energy and infrastructure investments, ships and aircraft, have become an integral part of institutional investor portfolios.
We provide comprehensive advice in this field from initial structural plans right up to exit. Our Alternative Investments Group pools all the necessary expertise and supports you in your investments on a global scale, be it foreign investments in German assets or supporting German investors in other countries.
Our scope of advice includes in particular:
- asset expertise and market intelligence in all fields
- advice on regulatory, tax and corporate law aspects (on the investment itself, as well as on fund structuring and documentation)
- banking law advice on structuring the various financing products, loan documentation or syndication options relating to loan funds in the interests of lightening your balance sheet
- due diligence
- end-to-end transaction advice on buying and selling via share deals or asset deals
- capital-market transactions, e.g. securitisations or investments in stock exchange-listed alternative assets
- additional advice on specialist areas as necessary, e.g. employment law, antitrust law or IP
Our clients include infrastructure funds and private equity funds, asset managers, banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and pension funds, as well as companies and corporate groups whose activities focus on alternative assets.
Our German Alternative Investments Group comprises lawyers from all the relevant legal fields: financing, regulatory law, M&A, project financing, energy & infrastructure, tax law, capital markets law, real estate law, real estate financing and public law and is part of our global Alternative Investments Group.
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Publications: 12 January 2022
Germany: future trends and challenges for the real estate market 2021/2022
In this video, Allen & Overy Partners Jochen Scheel and Christian Hilmes discuss the key trends they have seen develop in the German real estate market including the building investment pressure, the…
Publications: 12 November 2021
With its ruling passed on 9 November 2021, the German Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht; BVerwG) has put the brakes on the increasingly popular practice among local authorities…
Publications: 05 October 2021
The Berlin preliminary decision: Can housing companies be expropriated?
For some time now, Berlin has been experiencing a shortage of affordable and socially subsidized housing.
Publications: 02 July 2021
Clean hydrogen in Europe: The only way forward is together
Clean hydrogen is a central piece of Europe’s Green Deal goal of reaching climate neutrality.