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Moritz Heidbuechel specializes in advising on real estate matters. With over 15 years of experience, Moritz provides legal advice to German and international clients throughout the entire real estate life cycle.
His expertise spans complex investment and transaction structures, including asset deals, share deals, joint ventures, and real estate financings and restructurings. Moritz handles domestic and cross-border acquisitions and disposals of individual properties and property portfolios, and advises on high-value real estate lease agreements and other asset management topics. Transactions Moritz advises on cover office, commercial, residential real estate, hotels, logistics properties, healthcare and life sciences assets, and data centers.
Moritz's clients include German investment fund management companies focused on real assets, international investment fund managers (AIFMs), asset managers, institutional real estate investors, sovereign wealth funds, and banks.
Having studied and worked in China for many years, Moritz brings a unique perspective to real estate and corporate M&A transactions involving Asia, particularly in the automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical sectors. He also has experience advising on real estate transactions in the Middle East.
Before joining King & Spalding, Moritz was a counsel in the global transactions practice group at another international law firm in Munich and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He also served as a registered foreign lawyer for a German-headquartered law firm in Beijing, China.
Moritz is an active member of the King & Spalding LGBTQ+ affinity group and is fluent in German, English, and Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua).
The German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche has recognized Moritz a Top Lawyer for Real Estate 2023.
Second State Exam, Bavaria Ministry of Justice
First State Exam, University of Bayreuth
Frankfurt
Alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
English
French
German
Mandarin Chinese
April 3, 2024
LBBW Finances the Acquisition of LOGPARK Leipzig
January 20, 2023
King & Spalding Real Estate Team and Counsel Moritz Heidbuechel Honored by WirtschaftsWoche
October 13, 2022
Real estate counsel Moritz Heidbuechel joins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Frankfurt
Advised Madison International Realty on the acquisition together with Oxford Properties and the disposal to Norges Bank Investment Management of a shareholding in the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany.
Advised an international real estate investor on the EUR 260,000,000 acquisition financing of a large office property in Berlin, Germany.
Advised an international real estate investor on the acquisition and refinancing of a residential real estate portfolio of more than 3,000 units, located mostly in Western Germany, as well as post-acquisition asset management matters.
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November 1, 2024
Die Schriftform bei Mietverträgen: Was sich jetzt ändert
October 17, 2024
No More Lack of Written Form!
April 3, 2024
LBBW Finances the Acquisition of LOGPARK Leipzig
January 20, 2023
King & Spalding Real Estate Team and Counsel Moritz Heidbuechel Honored by WirtschaftsWoche
October 13, 2022
Real estate counsel Moritz Heidbuechel joins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Frankfurt
Advised Madison International Realty on the acquisition together with Oxford Properties and the disposal to Norges Bank Investment Management of a shareholding in the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany.
Advised an international real estate investor on the EUR 260,000,000 acquisition financing of a large office property in Berlin, Germany.
Advised an international real estate investor on the acquisition and refinancing of a residential real estate portfolio of more than 3,000 units, located mostly in Western Germany, as well as post-acquisition asset management matters.
See more
November 1, 2024
Die Schriftform bei Mietverträgen: Was sich jetzt ändert
October 17, 2024
No More Lack of Written Form!
April 3, 2024
LBBW Finances the Acquisition of LOGPARK Leipzig
January 20, 2023
King & Spalding Real Estate Team and Counsel Moritz Heidbuechel Honored by WirtschaftsWoche
October 13, 2022
Real estate counsel Moritz Heidbuechel joins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Frankfurt
Second State Exam, Bavaria Ministry of Justice
First State Exam, University of Bayreuth
Frankfurt
Alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
English
French
German
Mandarin Chinese