Overview
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.
Results
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
- Bruton Capital on the acquisition, leasing and financing of food retail assets across Germany
- die developer on projects New Heart on the Block and FortyFour in Düsseldorf as well as Lichtwerk Berlin and Urban Soul Bonn
- evolutiq on logistics investments across Germany
- a leading Swiss family office on an NPL acquisition
- a leading US family office on residential investments in Germany
- H.I.G. Realty on real estate investments in Germany, including The Grounds Real Estate Development
- KKR and Mirastar on logistics acquisitions and financings
- a major German asset manager on the sale of residential and commercial assets across Germany, most recently including Karlsplatz Munich
- Patron Capital on logistics real estate financings including LIZ Ludwigsburg
- Schöller Group on the acquisition of Upper West, Berlin
- SCPI Remake Live on the acquisition of an office property in Germany
- SEB Investment on the sale of a pan-European office portfolio comprising assets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg, London, Milan, Paris and Rotterdam
- Swiss Life on the Metro Campus Düsseldorf and Cologneo Cologne projects
- Tristan Capital Partners, among others, on the acquisition of a residential portfolio in Frankfurt and other German cities
- Union Investment on the sale of FÜNF HÖFE Munich and a residential complex in Düsseldorf
- Values on projects including Apple Berlin, Multimedia Centre Rotherbaum Hamburg, Industriepalast Leipzig and other projects across Germany
Recognitions
- 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
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Germany: Corporate Law, Private Equity Law and Real Estate Law, 2017-2026
- JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Leading Names: Real Estate Law, 2024-2025
- JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Recommended: Real Estate and Construction Law: Real Estate Business Law as well as Project Development and Plant Construction as well as Private Equity and Venture Capital: Private Equity Transactions, 2025
- JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Recommended, Germany: Real Estate Law, 2023-2024
- IFLR1000, Project Development, Real Estate Acquisitions, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Funds, 2023
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Leading Lawyer in Germany: Corporate Law, Private Equity Law and Real Estate Law, 2023
- WirtschaftsWoche, Top Lawyer 2022 in Germany: Real Estate Law, 2022
