Christian Schede

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Real Estate Funds

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Real Estate Operations

Retail

Infrastructure

Career

Christian Schede is Co-Chair of the firm's global Real Estate Practice of Greenberg Traurig and Founding Chairman Germany. He focuses on complex M&A transactions in real estate, infrastructure and related financings as well as project developments.

Christian's experience covers all real estate asset classes as well as projects in the energy and transportation sectors. His expertise includes advising on joint ventures, investment management platforms, and restructuring of property and infrastructure investments. Christian represents major national and international institutional investors, private equity funds, real estate companies and infrastructure funds as well as financiers, developers, investment managers and government bodies.

Christian frequently speaks at leading real estate industry events. Prior to Greenberg Traurig, Christian used to be Managing Partner at Olswang and was a Partner in the Real Estate Group at Freshfields.

Publications

Chambers 2010-2018, 2020-2022.

Personal

Education:

-LL.M., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C./USA, 1996.

-Second Legal State Exam, Second Legal State Exam, Bamberg/Germany, 1995.

-Dr. iur., Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, 1994.

-Stagiaire, European Commission, Cabinet Schmidhuber, GD XXIII, Brussels/Belgium, 1994.

-First Legal State Exam, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, First Legal State Exam, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Germany, 1992.