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Dr. Jens Ortmanns

Partner

Düsseldorf

Köln

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Schwerpunkte

Advises investors on domestic and cross-border real estate projects

Structures and negotiates complex real estate deals, joint ventures and financings

Supports large-scale property developments with a market-leading track record on forward deals

Provides strategic advice in relation to property investments including distressed investments, restructurings and NPL deals

Dr. Jens Ortmanns represents investors on all aspects of domestic and cross-border real estate projects. A significant part of Jens’ practice is devoted to complex real estate transactions, large-scale developments, joint ventures and financings as well as distressed real estate investments, restructurings and NPL deals.

Jens is the global head of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee.

„Leading negotiator and deal architect in the marketplace, no. 1 advisor in Germany. Extremely high level of commercial awareness, pleasant to work with and always excellent in his performance.“

 

“The leading real estate partner of his generation”

 

Jens Ortmanns is „continually making waves in the whole of Germany and abroad.“

Ranked in

Ranked in

Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Lawyer of the Year in Germany 2026

Ranked in

Ranked in

Chambers Europe 2026

Ranked in

Ranked in

Legal 500 EMEA, Leading Individual in Germany 2025

Referenzmandate

Jens inter alia advised in connection with the following acquisitions, developments and disposals:

  • Art-Invest on the acquisition, development and sale of numerous commercial and hotel projects in Germany and abroad, including Alter Wall Hamburg, Kaiserhof Cologne, Walzstahlhaus and Fürst & Friedrich Düsseldorf, Neuer Kanzlerplatz Bonn, Abraham Lincoln Park Wiesbaden, Pullman Hotel Cologne and 25hours Florence, Italy
  • Attestor and Bentham Capital on the acquisition, financing and leasing of various commercial properties in Berlin and Hamburg
  • Blackstone on the acquisition of an office property in Frankfurt

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Auszeichnungen
  • Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Lawyer of the Year in Germany: Real Estate Law, 2025-2026
  • Chambers Europe, Band 2 in Germany: Real Estate, 2021-2026
  • Legal 500 EMEA, Leading Individual in Germany: Real Estate Law, 2021-2025

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Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
Corporate/M&A Real Estate Private Equity Sustainability, Impact & ESG
Internationale Märkte
Deutschland Großbritannien
Mitgliedschaften
  • McDermott Will & Schulte Real Estate Group, global head
  • McDermott Will & Schulte Executive Committee, member
Qualifikation
Education
  • University of Trier, premier examen d’État, Dr. jur. (PhD)
  • Higher Regional Court of Cologne, Second State Exam
  • Universität Trier, First State Exam
  • Université d’Orléans
Admissions
  • Deutschland
Languages
  • Englisch
  • Französisch
  • Deutsch