Claudia Hard

Practice Areas

Finance

Real Estate

Banking & Financial Services

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Real Estate Funds

Real Estate Finance

Career

Claudia Hard is Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig's global Finance Group and heads the Finance & Banking Group in Germany. She focuses her practice on real estate, project and corporate finance.

Claudia has many years of experience in the field of acquisition and refinancing as well as restructuring in the real estate sector. In addition, she has deep experience in the area of Pfandbrief financing, both in Germany and in cross-border financing within Europe and the USA. Her clients include leading domestic and foreign banks, debt funds, loan servicers, private equity funds, institutional investors and public housing companies.

Claudia is recommended by leading lawyer directories as "smart and experienced" and "impressively good." Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, she was a partner at Olswang Germany and previously worked in the real estate and the finance group at Freshfields and Clifford Chance in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and London.

Publications

Chambers Europe 2015,2017-2018, 2020,2022.

Personal

Education:

-LL.M., The University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

-Second Legal State Exam, 2000.

-First Legal State Exam, Universität Potsdam /Germany, 1998.