summit partners GRI Summit 2003 - Global Real Estate Institute

senior partners
Antoine Vignial
Partner
Mark Wheelhouse
Head of UK Real
Estate
Chris Morris
Partner
David Ereira
Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
65 Fleet Street
London EC4Y 1HS
Tel:+44 20 7936 4000
Fax:+44 20 7832 7001
Offices
Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava,
Brussels, Budapest, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg,
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan,
Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore,
Toyko, Vienna, Washington
Johannes Conradi Joint global head of real estate
Tel: +49 40 36 90 61 68
E-mail:johannes.conradi@freshfields.com
Mark Wheelhouse Head of UK real estate
Tel: +44 20 7832 7272
Email: mark.wheelhouse@freshfields.com
Chris Morris Partner
Tel: +44 20 7832 7494
Email: chris.morris@freshfields.com
David Ereira Partner
Tel: +44 20 7832 7003
Email: david.ereira@freshfields.com
Antoine Vignial Head of French real estate
Tel: +33 1 44 56 55 52
Email: antoine.vignial@freshfields.com
Johannes Conradi
Joint Global Head of
Real Estate
Corporate Summary
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is an international law firm with over
2,400 lawyers in 28 offices in 18 countries. Our European real estate
network provides an integrated service to clients working in all aspects
of commercial real estate across Europe.
As well as mainstream real estate work, we advise on planning and
public law issues; opportunities for tax efficiency; innovative financing
methods; the impact of environmental law; construction law; and
corporate structures.
Mission
Many corporates are under increasing pressure to critically examine their
property assets and liabilities. Our real estate team work pro-actively
with clients to develop innovative solutions to address the increasing
challenges they face in realising value from real estate assets, reducing
costs and creating efficiencies. We evaluate the options available and
consider the commercial implications of products such as
ownership/leasing, sale and leasebacks, total property outsourcing and
business process outsourcing.
Highlights
We were instrumental in the first ever UK outsourcing transaction, the
PRIME Project, and have continued to develop innovative solutions for
clients from across our international network. Our involvement in the
majority of the significant outsourcing and multi-jurisdictional deals in
Europe to date demonstrates a leading presence in the sector.
Key highlights include advising Telereal on the €3.86bn outsourcing of
BT’s property portfolio; Nomura Principal Finance Group on the €2.5bn
acquisition from the German Government of 10 of the 18 railway
housing companies; Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on the €3.1bn
acquisition of France Telecom's real estate portfolio; CDC Ixis Capital
Markets on the €120.5m sale and leaseback of a portfolio of industrial
and office sites in France and Spain from Alstom; Deutsche Bank on its
€220m acquisition of GA; and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds
(MSREF) and Corpus Immobilien-Gruppe on the acquisition of a
portfolio from Deutsche Telekom.
History
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was created through the merger of
Freshfields and Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber on August 1, 2000.
The merger formed a new leader among international law firms capable
of offering leading business law advice throughout Europe, the US
and Asia.
Dr. Karsten von Köller
Chairman of the Board
of Managing Directors
Joachim Plesser
Member of the Board
of Managing
Directors
Eurohypo AG
Taunusanlage 9
60329 Frankfurt A.m. MAIN
Phone: +49 (0)180-3 49 76-00
Fax: +49 (0)180-3 49 76-8 88 88
email:gisela.brandhoff@eurohypo.com
www.eurohypo.com
SENIOR MANAGEMENT
Bernd Knobloch
Deputy Chairman of
the Board of
Managing Directors
Dirk Wilhelm Schuh
Deputy Chairman of
the Board of
Managing Directors
Dr. Karsten von Köller
Responsible for Commercial Real Estate Clients Continental
Europe, Audit, Strategy and Communication, Operations Global
Markets
Bernd Knobloch
Responsible for Commercial Real Estate Clients UK and USA,
Syndicated Loans, Legal , Syndicated Loans
Dirk Wilhelm Schuh
Responsible for Risk Management, Human Ressources
Dr. Matthias Danne
Responsible for Retail Residential Business, Eurohypo Systems
GmbH, Organisation
Joachim Plesser
Responsible for Commercial Real Estate Clients Germany,
Finance/Controlling/Tax
Henning Rasche
Responsible for Money and Capital Markets, Public Sector
Financing, Treasury.
Eurohypo AG is one of Europe’s leading banks for real estate and public
sector financing. With total assets of nearly € 240 billion, we are one of
the biggest commercial real estate lenders in Europe and the country’s
fifth-largest private bank in Germany.
Our major shareholders are Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG and
Dresdner Bank AG.
Apart from the headquarters in Frankfurt, we are located in other
important cities in Germany as well as in the most important capitals in
Europe (e.g. London, Paris). We have also offices in New York, Chicago
and Los Angeles.
MISSION
In real estate and public sector financing, Eurohypo AG is Europe’s
leading specialized bank. We offer customers and business partners a
complete range of services in all of our core business areas. Relationship
banking and long-term customer ties are our top priority.
HISTORY
Eurohypo AG was established by a merger between Deutsche Hyp,
Eurohypo and Rheinhyp –the mortgage bank subsidaries of the major
shareholders. In June 2002, the general meetings of the three
predecessors authorized the merger. Eurohypo AG was entered into the
Commercial Register on August 13th 2002.
GOALS
Eurohypo is Europe’s first choice both for commercial and private real
estate financing. With the strong position in the real estate investment
banking we will extend this leading position all across Europe and to
North America.
In the public sector financing we will see a stronger focus on business
with public sector clients abroad. Established as the prime issuer on the
capital markets (benchmark issuer in the Pfandbrief market), Eurohypo
AG will also assume a leading position in mortgage backed security
business.
ACTIVITY AREAS
Our core business the real estate financing is split into real estate
investment banking, syndication, corporate clients (geographically
divided) and private customers. Eurohypo covers the entire added value
chain in complex real estate transactions, starting with advisory,
structuring, arrangement and underwriting services for financings. Other
business areas are public sector finance, money and capital markets
and treasury.
ILLUSTRATION
In continental Europe we focus on local and internationally oriented
players in the property sector, institutional investors, high net worth
individuals, developers and joint ventures between professional players
and institutionals. To this end we have established teams with
decentralized presence, expertise in structuring and underwriting.
We also have proven placement capability.
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