DeutschDebt-to-equity swap: acquiring property out of insolvency
Accept the recovery rate as a creditor – or take over the assets? How a pension scheme moved three properties out of insolvency into its own fund structure.
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From practice
Project Stories
Real assignments from the real estate industry: how experienced interim managers and freelancers run transactions, structure financing and steer portfolios – from the initial situation to the result.
Interim fund management in a service KVG
A special fund keeps running even when its leadership is missing: how an interim mandate in a Munich service KVG took on unit steering and regulatory responsibility.
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A managing director transition in a real estate family office
In small organisations knowledge sits in people, not systems. How a family office combined the change at the top with a strategic realignment.
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Managing conflicts of interest in real estate funds
Conflicts of interest arise not from misconduct but from structure. How a Pfandbrief bank captured its conflict constellations in the fund business systematically.
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Rebuilding reporting for a mezzanine lender
Many exposures, no direct control, data in every conceivable format: how a grown Excel landscape became a scalable reporting architecture.
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Developing a fund manager's portfolio management system
At some point the system no longer steers, it merely administers. Why overhauling a portfolio management system starts with metric definitions, not software.
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Acquiring and financing a retail portfolio of 58 assets
58 assets are not 58 transactions. How a private equity investor interlocked due diligence and acquisition finance so both were ready to close at once.
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Selling development land: strategy and marketing
No income value, no rents: with development land the buyer pays for an assumption about the future. How to evidence that potential rather than assert it.
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Launching a Luxembourg SICAV-RAIF for residential assets
Fund structure, capital raising and portfolio build-up have to run at once – otherwise one of the three waits. Launching a SICAV-RAIF for an Austrian residential portfolio.
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Tendering the marketing of a residential portfolio
The choice of agency shapes buyer pool, pace and price – and is often made on instinct. A competitive award procedure for 27 properties.
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Building a digital platform for real estate financing
Pre-selecting lenders, distributing documents, holding deadlines – in five languages. How spreadsheets and mailing lists became an international debt advisory platform.
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Tendering development finance in the banking market
Tendering is not asking several banks – it is organising competition so offers become comparable. A financing process through to financial close.
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