Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• German

Lawyer Overview

Dr. Hülsdunk's practice focuses on complex transactions in the real estate sector. He advises international investors, mainly from the U.K., Ireland, and the U.S., on all aspects of their investments in German real estate. He has extensive experience in the acquisition and disposal of commercial properties (including office and retail buildings), light industrial and logistics properties, hotels, and residential portfolios. He and his team also assist investors with the active management and optimization of their portfolios, including lease negotiations and the coordination of litigious matters.

In addition, Dr. Hülsdunk has substantial experience relating to the acquisition of commercial properties in special situations from debtors, insolvency administrators, and in compulsory auction proceedings.

In the field of corporate real estate services, Dr. Hülsdunk represents major corporations in their real estate requirements, including the strategic alignment of real estate portfolios, headquarter developments and leases, sale and leaseback transactions, as well as facility management agreements and outsourcing projects. Having worked for several years as a transactional lawyer in the technology sector, he is particularly well-placed in meeting the demands of high-tech companies in property matters.

Dr. Hülsdunk, a native German speaker, is also fluent in English.

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate
• Real Estate & Property Companies
• Corporate Real Estate Services
• Construction
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Hospitality

Representative Cases

• "Tower 99" Acquisition
• Acquisition and Lease-back
• Acquisition of Two Industrial Buildings
• Acquisition of Two Logistics and Warehouse Properties
• Customs Office Acquisition
• Global Outsourcing of Facility Management and Services
• Industrial Facility Disposition
• Industrial Property Acquisition
• Mixed Portfolio Acquisition
• Mixed Portfolio Acquisition
• Neckarsulm Portfolio Acquisition
• New German Headquarters
• Residential Portfolio Acquisition
• Residential Portfolio Sale
• Retail Warehouse Acquisition
• Sale and Leaseback of an Portfolio of German office buildings
• Sale of the A&I business
• Tropical Islands Resort Development
• Warehouse/Office Complex Acquisition

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Real Estate, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Eminent Domain, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Real Estate Law, Reorganizations, Residential Real Estate, Shareholders' Rights, Title Insurance, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Frankfurt, Germany
• Hamburg, Germany

Education

• Hamburg - Germany

Published Works

• Old Indexation Clause - New Legal Issues (Alte Wertsicherungsklausel - Neue Rechtsprobleme), coauthor, ZfIR p. 337-342, 2007
• Comment on the Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, dated 2 March 2006 (2 BvR 2099/04), concerning the scope and applicability of the consitutional right to the secrecy of telecommunications, EWiR 2006 p. 305, 2006
• Outsourcing in the insurance and health care sector without consent of the data subject? co-author, (Outsourcing im Versicherungs- und Gesundheitswesen ohne Einwilligung?), MMR 2004, p. 788-79, 2004
• Integrated advice for convergent technologies (Integrierte Beratung für konvergente Technologien), Z.f.R 2004, p. 70, 2004
• Service components and contractual relationships of commercial music download platforms on the Internet, co-author, (Leistungskomponenten und Vertragsbeziehungen bei kommerziellen Musik-Download-Plattformen im Internet), MMR 2004, p. 59-66, 2004
• Comment on the Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, co-author, dated 15 July 2003 (2 BvF 6/98), EWiR 2003 p. 1053, 2003
• Comment on the Decision of the Federal Supreme Court of Germany, dated 24 October 2002 (BGH I ZR 100/00 "Discount Prefix"), EWiR 2003, 2003
• Designing Distance Selling Platforms under the new German legislation on E-Commerce, co-author, (Die Gestaltung von Fernabsatzangeboten im elektronischen Geschäftsverkehr nach neuem Recht), MMR 2002, p. 414-419 and p. 516-520, 2002
• Strategies for Legal Education, (Strategien für die juristische Ausbildung), Mauke Söhne Hamburg 2001, 2001
• LernSystem Pro (Legal Educational Software for Civil and Civil Procedural Law, Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law, Administrative and Constitutional Law), EDWORKS Hamburg, 2 CD-ROMs, 2nd Edition 2001, 2001

Address

Grüneburgweg 102
60323 Frankfurt am Main
60323 Frankfurt am Main 60323, Federal Republic of Germany

Phones

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Faxes

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