Bio

Roland is the Managing Partner of our German offices. He has specialised experience in providing advice on cross-border real estate transactions (share and asset deals) with a focus on respective tax issues regarding in particular acquisition structures, joint venture frameworks, strategies for debt-push-down, repatriation of cash and exits, avoidance of tax presences of acquisition vehicles in Germany, optimisation with respect to ongoing German taxation of acquisition vehicles and also German real estate transfer tax and German tax trade. He also has extensive experience with (post-acquisition) restructurings of both, German and international groups holding real estate, for example mergers, split-ups, hive-downs and contributions/distributions. Further areas or expertise include German investment (tax) law, specific issues relevant for German and international institutional investors and real estate investment stock corporations (REITs and comparable vehicles).