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Hans Thomas Kessler, LL.M. (LSE)

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Attorney-at-law (Germany)

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His legal specialties are:
  • Real estate transactions, real estate finance and infrastructure law
  • Acquisitions, sales and financing of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios
  • Real estate developments and infrastructure projects as well as leases of commercial real estate
  • Construction, planning and infrastructure law
  • Advising construction and engineering firms as well as principals
  • Public–private partnerships
  • Defence, civil protection and resilience
  • Transformation and modernisation projects
Hans Thomas Kessler mainly advises:
  • Private equity, funds and investment companies
  • Federal government, state governments, municipalities
  • Real estate and infrastructure companies

Industries and Expertise

Resume

Career
  • Partner at BRP RENAUD since 2026
  • Attorney-at-law since 1997
  • Since 2023 Head Real Estate and Legal Public Sector of an international law firm, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin
  • Until 2023 Head Real Estate Germany of an international law firm, Frankfurt am Main
  • Until 2013 Head Real Estate Germany and firmwide Co-Head Real Estate of European Law Firm, Frankfurt am Main
  • Until 2008 Head Real Estate of German large Law Firm, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf
  • Until 2004 Real Estate and Infrastructure Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) at German and U.S.-American large Law Firm
  • Until 1997 Legal Clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and Admission to Bar
  • Until 1995 Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
  • Until 1994 LL.M. studies at London School of Economics und Polical Science (LSE)
  • Until 1993 Studies of Law and International Relations at the Universities of Frankfurt am Mai, Lausanne/Genf and Strassburg

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Awards

Best Lawyers und Handelsblatt

Best Lawyers

„Best Lawyers: Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht“, 2024 - 2025

Deutschlands beste Anwälte: Best Lawyers Germany

Included in the Best Lawyers List for Germany Real Estate for 14 consecutive years (2009 – 2023) and for Investment Funds in 2023
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien

Recommended Attorney

Listed as a recommended lawyer for Real Estate in 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022

Who‘s Who Legal

Germany's Best Lawyers

Ranked In Who's Who Legal: Real Estate as one of Germany's best lawyers 2018 to 2022

Chambers Europe

Ranked by Chambers Europe for Real Estate Germany since 2020

Membership

Member

Chairman of ELNET – the European Leadership Network – in Germany, Member of ELNET’s NATO and EU Board

Member

Member of the Friends and Supporters of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Mai

Member

Federal Association Public Private Partnership (BPPP)

  • He has a good practice and has had one for decades


     Chambers Europe 2022
  • If he is involved, the deal happens


     Client, Chambers Europe 2020
  • Highly competent, transaction-focused and imaginative


            Client, Chambers Europe 2020

  • ....good guy, dealmaker

               Competitor, JUVE 2017/2018

  • Outstanding


               Competitor, JUVE 2016/2017

  • One of Germanys leading lawyers


              Best Lawyers 2017/2018

  • Who has him at the table, has a deal at the end

           Chambers Global 2014

     

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