Dr. Carsten Loll, one of the leading German real estate lawyers, advises clients on complex real estate and private equity transactions. 

Carsten Loll draws on extensive experience to guide private equity funds, institutional investors, and asset managers on their highest-value domestic and cross-border real estate matters, including:

  • Asset and share deals
  • Portfolio transactions across all asset classes, including office, retail, and logistics
  • Joint ventures and real estate M&A

He 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 also 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.

Mr. Loll’s representative experience includes advising:

  • Aermont in 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:
    • The €1 billion investment in the Northern Portfolio (residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia)
    • The €1 billion investment in the Suedewo Portfolio (residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia)
  • Blackstone on the: 
    • Acquisition of numerous logistics assets and portfolios worth billions of euros*
    • €12.25 billion logistics platform Logicor sale*
  • 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*
  • 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, the real estate asset manager of Munich RE, in its €400 million acquisition of retail portfolio Touchdown*
  • Savills IM in the: 
    • Sale of office portfolio Max & Merle to WealthCap*
    • Acquisition of a large office complex in Munich*
  • Swiss Life and BVK in the acquisition of office building OSKAR in Munich*
  • Union Investment in its:
    • Bidding process to acquire the Millennium portfolio from Generali Lebensversicherung, with a value exceeding €2.5 billion*
    • Acquisition of the Medicus portfolio, comprising six mixed-use properties in Berlin and Dusseldorf*
    • Acquisition of Media Works and the new German patent and trademark office in Munich, both with volumes exceeding €500 million*
    • Acquisition of Ericus-Contor in Hamburg*
  • Versicherungskammer Bayern on the acquisition of the Calwer Passage in Stuttgart
  • WealthCap on its:
    • Acquisition of Gewandhaus in Ludwigsburg*
    • Acquisition of the Brain Lab AG headquarters in Munich*
    • Conclusion of a joint venture for residential properties with Domicil and for retail properties with BBE*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

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

Practices