Dr. Hans Felix Schäfer

• Group of investors on the sale of the Stollwerck to Panattoni
• CoRE Solutions on sale-and-lease-back with AMW pharma specialist
• Verdion Group/Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan on the acquisition of the former Royal Air Force Base Brüggen
• Mapletree Investments Group, Singapore/Amsterdam regarding ongoing real estate issues
• International hardware and software developer on the leasing and development of data centers
• Verdion Group/Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan on the sale of a logistics real estate portfolio with Amazon and SIEMENS AG as tenants
• Waterland/Helgstrand in connection with the carve-out of business units of Ludger Beerbaum Stables (equestrian centers)
• Jomoo Deutschland on the acquisition of assets from the insolvency of the Poggenpohl Group
• Ecolab Deutschland GmbH on ongoing real estate law issues
• DBAG on the acquisition of a radiology practice chain
• International consortium on a power plant project in Germany
• Prologis Group on various ongoing real estate law issues
• Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA and its subsidiaries on real estate and construction law issues
• Motorola Group with regard to real estate law issues, in particular the sale of sites in Germany
• Corestate Capital AG with regard to various residential and commercial portfolios
• Starion Group on the acquisition of the shopping center "A10 Center Berlin
• BBVA Banking Group on the acquisition of various residential investment properties in Berlin.
• Karstadt AG on the sale of the majority of its stores to a consortium of Goldmann Sachs/Karstadt AG
• Leading US shopping center operator on the planned acquisition of four shopping centers in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Degussa AG on the sale of Degussa's headquarters to DIC / Morgan Stanley
• ON AG on the sale of Viterra AG with a portfolio of 152,000 residential units and a portfolio of commercial properties to Terra Firma
• Triton Managers Limited on the acquisition of VTG Lehnkering
• Blackstone Group in the acquisition of a real estate portfolio of Deutsche Bank AG
• Peek & Cloppenburg KG in the acquisition and project development of the "Weltstadthaus" Cologne and subsequently in a legal dispute against HOCHTIEF AG

(includes work for other law firms)

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Since 2023
Partner at Rimôn Falkenfort

Since 2013
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

2004 – 2022
Lawyer at national and international  law firms

2004
Ph.D.
University of Cologne

2004
Admission to the bar in Germany

2004
Second State Exam in Law Düsseldorf

2002
First State Exam in Law University of Cologne

•  "Neue Betätigungsfelder des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks - Entwicklung und rechtliche Bewertung" [New fields of activity of public broadcasting - development and legal evaluation], series of publications by the Institute for Broadcasting Law at the University of Cologne, Vol. 91, 2004, C.H. Beck Publishers
• Schäfer/Steinkampf, "The Right of First Refusal in Tenancy Law, the Area of Conflict between Sec. 311b BGB and Sec. 550 BGB", in: Neue Zeitschrift für Mietrecht, NZM 2005, 49-51
• Schäfer/Steinkampf, "The end of project development; at the same time comment on the decisions of the Upper Regional Court Dresden of 31.08.2004 and the Upper Regional Court Naumburg of 07.09.2004", in: ZfIR 2005, 537 ff.
• Immobilienzeitung IZ, February 2007, "Grundsteuererlass bei strukturellem Leerstand" [Property tax remission in the case of structural vacancies].
• DVZ, February 2012, "Trend toward green leases"
• LogReal.direkt, September 2012, "Green leases on the rise"
• OLG Düsseldorf - Lease option must be granted in the lease or a supplement in the correct form, in: IMR 2013, 368