Dr. Hans Felix Schäfer

Partner
Lawyer

Düsseldorf
Deutschland

Felix Schäfer is a partner in our real estate practice. His key areas of expertise include real estate project developments, real estate transactions of individual properties and portfolios in asset or share deals, private and public construction law, commercial landlord and tenant law, ongoing advice to properties on asset, property and facility management issues, real estate-related litigation and advice on ESG issues in the respective contractual relationships.

Felix Schäfer studied and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne and worked for various leading international and national law firms before joining Rimôn Falkenfort. He is recommended by Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt as a lawyer in the field of real estate business law and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Selected Experience

CoRE Solutions on sale-and-lease-back with AMW pharma specialist
Verdion Group/Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan on the acquisition of the former Royal Air Force Base Brüggen
Mapletree Investments Group, Singapore/Amsterdam regarding ongoing real estate issues
International hardware and software developer on the leasing and development of data centers
Verdion Group/Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan on the sale of a logistics real estate portfolio with Amazon and SIEMENS AG as tenants
Waterland/Helgstrand in connection with the carve-out of business units of Ludger Beerbaum Stables (equestrian centers)
Jomoo Deutschland on the acquisition of assets from the insolvency of the Poggenpohl Group
Ecolab Deutschland GmbH on ongoing real estate law issues
DBAG on the acquisition of a radiology practice chain
International consortium on a power plant project in Germany
Prologis Group on various ongoing real estate law issues
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA and its subsidiaries on real estate and construction law issues
Motorola Group with regard to real estate law issues, in particular the sale of sites in Germany
Corestate Capital AG with regard to various residential and commercial portfolios
Starion Group on the acquisition of the shopping center "A10 Center Berlin
BBVA Banking Group on the acquisition of various residential investment properties in Berlin.
Karstadt AG on the sale of the majority of its stores to a consortium of Goldmann Sachs/Karstadt AG
Leading US shopping center operator on the planned acquisition of four shopping centers in North Rhine-Westphalia
Degussa AG on the sale of Degussa's headquarters to DIC / Morgan Stanley
ON AG on the sale of Viterra AG with a portfolio of 152,000 residential units and a portfolio of commercial properties to Terra Firma
Triton Managers Limited on the acquisition of VTG Lehnkering
Blackstone Group in the acquisition of a real estate portfolio of Deutsche Bank AG
Peek & Cloppenburg KG in the acquisition and project development of the "Weltstadthaus" Cologne and subsequently in a legal dispute against HOCHTIEF AG

(includes work for other law firms)

Awards

Best Lawyers
„Real Estate Law”
2020/2021/2022/2023 editions

Juve
“often recommended”
Handbook 2012/2013

Previous Experience

Since 2023
Partner at Rimôn Falkenfort

Since 2013
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

2004 – 2022
Lawyer at national and international law firms

2004
Ph.D.
University of Cologne

2004
Admission to the bar in Germany

2004
Second State Exam in Law Düsseldorf

2002
First State Exam in Law University of Cologne

Journal Articles

"Neue Betätigungsfelder des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks - Entwicklung und rechtliche Bewertung" [New fields of activity of public broadcasting - development and legal evaluation], series of publications by the Institute for Broadcasting Law at the University of Cologne, Vol. 91, 2004, C.H. Beck Publishers
Schäfer/Steinkampf, "The Right of First Refusal in Tenancy Law, the Area of Conflict between Sec. 311b BGB and Sec. 550 BGB", in: Neue Zeitschrift für Mietrecht, NZM 2005, 49-51
Schäfer/Steinkampf, "The end of project development; at the same time comment on the decisions of the Upper Regional Court Dresden of 31.08.2004 and the Upper Regional Court Naumburg of 07.09.2004", in: ZfIR 2005, 537 ff.
Immobilienzeitung IZ, February 2007, "Grundsteuererlass bei strukturellem Leerstand" [Property tax remission in the case of structural vacancies].
DVZ, February 2012, "Trend toward green leases"
LogReal.direkt, September 2012, "Green leases on the rise"
OLG Düsseldorf - Lease option must be granted in the lease or a supplement in the correct form, in: IMR 2013, 368