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Alexandra Weis is a partner in the Real Estate & Funds practice group at King & Spalding. With 25 years of experience, Alexandra Weis’ practice focuses on German investment and regulatory law, fund structuring, and international and German real estate transactions. Her practice also involves tax structuring, corporate and financing work.
Alexandra Weis represents the vast majority of German investment fund management companies focused on real assets including open-end and closed-end real estate investment funds as well as international investment fund managers (AIFM), German and international asset managers, German and international institutional real estate investors and custodians in their legal and regulatory structuring and in all aspects of their worldwide acquisitions, financings and sales.
Prior to joining King & Spalding, Alexandra Weis was legal counsel at PATRIZIA Frankfurt Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, formerly Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH, then the largest and market-leading German institutional real estate investment management company, for more than three years. Her work focused on all real estate investment fund related regulatory, tax, real estate, corporate and financing aspects including real estate transactions worldwide as well as the handling of the legal relationship between the company and its fund investors and the supervisory authorities.
The first five years of her legal career, Alexandra Weis practiced tax and regulatory law relating to foreign and German open-end investment funds within the Financial Services Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Frankfurt, Germany, advising primarily German and international investment fund management companies. During her time at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Alexandra Weis joined for four months the Tax Department within the European Tax Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York focusing on International Tax Services.
Alexandra Weis frequently speaks to industry groups on regulatory, fund and real estate law as well as on transaction matters.
Legal 500 Deutschland 2022, 2023 and 2024 named Alexandra Weis a "Next Generation Partner" for Investment Funds. Legal 500 Deutschland and Chambers recognize Alexandra Weis among Germany's leading lawyers for Investment Funds.
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