Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) on its realignment in commercial real estate finance.
Following the acquisition of Berlin Hyp in summer 2022, regulatory and legal incorporation represents a key milestone in the integration process. With effect from August 1, 2025, all Berlin Hyp’s real estate finance activities were transferred to LBBW under the German Transformation Act and are now combined with LBBW’s activities under the Berlin Hyp brand.
With a financing portfolio of around €63 billion, the new real estate finance provider operates as an organizationally independent entity within LBBW and is one of Europe’s heavyweights in commercial real estate financing.
Under the transaction, LBBW is taking on all Berlin Hyp AG’s relationships involving a creditor or debtor position with effect from August 1, 2025. LBBW replaces Berlin Hyp AG as an issuer and it also entails the merging of the public and mortgage cover registers of both banks. At the same time, LBBW has established new branches in France and in the Netherlands and a representative office in Poland to continue Berlin Hyp’s business in those countries.
White & Case advised LBBW, in particular, on corporate, regulatory, employment, capital markets, real estate and general banking law.
The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partners Alexander Kiefner (Frankfurt) and Henning Berger (Berlin) and included partners Sebastian Stütze, Julia Sitter, Karsten Wöckener, Detlev Gabel (all Frankfurt), Lisa Seifman, Kristen DiLemmo, Jonathan Rogers (all London), Thomas Glauden (Luxembourg & Brussels), Olivier Pâris, Emilie Rogey (both Paris), Václav Kubr (Prague) and Carlo Meert (Brussels), local partners Frederic Wuensche, Peter Becker, Claire-Marie Mallad, Felix Biedermann and Mathias Bogusch (all Frankfurt), counsel Josef Große Honebrink (Frankfurt), Lachlan Low, Jane Bergin (both London), Glen Cuccinello (New York), Henri Bousseau (Paris), Malgorzata Pasnik and Klaudia Malczewska (both Warsaw) and associates David Schoo (Berlin), Maxim Arrazola de Onate, Sophia Fotso (both Brussels & Luxembourg), Aude Goffaux (Brussels), Martin Junker (Berlin & Frankfurt), Pia Berger (Frankfurt), Steph Lartey, Grace O’Connell, Onose Ogbebor, Anthony La Rosa, Matt Ross (all London), Thomas Rousset, Arvine Nooralian (both Luxembourg), Marovola Rasoanaivo, Etienne Branthomme, Mailis Pachebat, Gregoire Baudry (all Paris), Gabriela Blahoudkova, Kamila Dankova (both Prague), Mateusz Dyduch, Joanna Misztal-Dzitko and Radomir Szewczuk (all Warsaw).
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