Carsten Loll
Partner
He/Him/His
London / Frankfurt / Munich
carsten.loll@lw.com
+44.20.7877.6268
PRACTICES
- Private Equity
- Real Estate
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- LLM, King's College London, 2004
- Dr. jur., University Göttingen and University Frankfurt (Oder), 2003
- Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Zweibrücken, 2003
- First German State Exam, University of Heidelberg, Graz and Göttingen, 1999
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- German
PROFILE
Dr. Carsten Loll, a leading German real estate and private equity lawyer, advises clients on complex, cross-border real estate and real estate private equity transactions.
Carsten Loll draws on his sophisticated understanding of the German private equity real estate landscape and his market-leading transactional real estate experience to guide private equity funds, institutional investors, and asset managers on their highest-value matters, including:
- Asset and share deals
- Portfolio transactions across all asset classes, including office, retail, and logistics
- Joint ventures and real estate M&A
A strong relationship builder and keen strategist, Carsten serves as a trusted advisor to his clients at every stage of the investment life cycle, from acquisition through exit. He has completed transactions exceeding €25 billion in total.
Carsten is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a member of the Advisory Board Germany. From 2012 to 2018, he was Local Chair of the ULI in Munich and a member of the ULI Executive Committee Germany. He is a member of the gif Gesellschaft für Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung e.V. / International Real Estate Society (IHRES), the German-British Lawyers Association, and the German-American Lawyers Association.
EXPERIENCE
Carsten’s representative experience includes advising:
- Aermont on the €800 million sale of Marienturm, a high-rise building in Frankfurt, to DWS/NPS and the sale of neighboring office building Marienforum to Generali*
- AFIAA Investment Foundation for Real Estate Investments in foreign countries on the sale of Westfalen-Center Dortmund
- Apollo on its:
- €1 billion investment in Deutsche Wohnen SE
- €1 billion investment in the Northern Portfolio, a residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia
- €1 billion investment in the Suedewo Portfolio, a residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia
- Blackstone on:
- Acquiring numerous logistics assets and portfolios worth billions of euros*
- The €12.25 billion sale of logistics platform Logicor*
- BNP Paribas REIM on acquiring office buildings Deichtor Office Center in Hamburg, Franklin Haus in Berlin, and Kallmorgen Tower in Hamburg, as well as several healthcare objects*
- Brookfield on its preferred equity investment in a Cologne residential project
- Catella Real Estate on acquiring project development Auf AEG in Nuremberg in different development phases, in addition to other office objects*
- LaSalle Investment Management on acquiring:
- Office building Morrow in Frankfurt*
- Real estate portfolio ElseBella in Munich*
- MEAG, Munich RE's real estate asset manager, on its €400 million acquisition of retail portfolio Touchdown*
- OneIM and OCP on the acquisition of Adler Group’s €422.5 million “Cosmopolitan” portfolio, located in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Savills IM on:
- Selling office portfolio Max & Merle to WealthCap*
- Acquiring a large office complex in Munich*
- Swiss Life and BVK on acquiring office building OSKAR in Munich*
- Union Investment on:
- Its bidding process to acquire the Millennium portfolio from Generali Lebensversicherung, with a value exceeding €2.5 billion*
- Acquiring the Medicus portfolio, comprising six mixed-use properties in Berlin and Dusseldorf*
- Acquiring Media Works and the new German patent and trademark office in Munich, both with volumes exceeding €500 million*
- Acquiring Ericus-Contor in Hamburg*
- Versicherungskammer Bayern on acquiring the Calwer Passage in Stuttgart
- WealthCap on:
- Acquiring Gewandhaus in Ludwigsburg*
- Acquiring the Brain Lab AG headquarters in Munich*
- Concluding a joint venture for residential properties with Domicil and for retail properties with BBE*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham