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. 

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 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*
  • 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 

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
  • 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