Peter Schorling

Practice Areas

Corporate

Emerging Technology

Real Estate

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Real Estate Funds

Career

Peter Schorling is Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig Germany and co-chairs the firm's German Corporate Group, focusing his practice on M&A transactions. Peter advises on all aspects of M&A and corporate law, providing in-depth expertise in buy-side and sell-side transactions, private equity, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and capital markets. In particular, this includes various cross-border projects for international clients. Peter has wide-ranging experience advising clients in the real estate and media, technology & telecommunications sectors.

Based on his extensive experience, Peter is recognized by legal directories as a leading advisor. He is perceived as “a lawyer you can speak to very well about the commercial aspects” and as “very diplomatic but also very sharp” (Chambers and Partners 2018). He was awarded “Lawyer of the year 2018 and 2017, Private Equity” by Handelsblatt, and “Leading Partner in Real Estate Law" by JUVE in 2015 - 2020 and by Who is Who Legal 2016 - 2019/20.

Publications

Chambers Europe, Real Estate, 2020, 2022

Personal

Education:

-Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2002.

-Ph.D., Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena/Germany, 2002.

-First Legal State Exam, Ludwigs-Maximilian Universität, Munich/Germany, 1998.