Dr. Michael Alberts
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- Emailmalberts@orrick.com
- Born1958 in Essen
- Lawyersince 1988
- Studies
in Regensburg, Lausanne (Schweiz) and Freiburg (Dr. jur. 1986)
- Memberships
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), German Council of Shopping Centers (GCSC), Urban Land Institute (ULI), Global Real Estate Institute (GRI), Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung (DAJV), Deutsch-Schweizerische Wirtschaftsvereinigung (DSW)
- LanguagesEnglish, French
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Practice areas
Mr. Alberts has more than 20 years experience as counsel in all kinds of real estate matters, in particular large scale real estate transactions as well as development projects.
He advises a number of international real estate investors and developers. He is, inter alia, strategic counsel for Value Retail, the renowned factory outlet operator, for the Stadium Group (CentrO. Oberhausen) and for the Numisma Group, the British investor.
Mr. Alberts’ experience extends to real estate financing and restructuring as well as to corporate and M&A and joint-venture matters relating to real estate projects.
Mr. Alberts is a frequent author on real estate-related topics and is regularly giving lessons on international loan agreements for the post-graduate program “Real Estate Law” of the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster. Moreover, he often is discussion chair or speaker at international real estate conferences.
In the recent past, Mr. Alberts was lead counsel in, inter alia, the following transactions and projects:
• Sale of a share of 50% in the Shopping Center CentrO Oberhausen by the Stadium Group to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board with a sales volume of ca. EUR 650 million.
• Numisma Group acquisition of a portfolio of commercial real estate with a volume of ca. EUR 1 billion.
• Value Retail development of two factory outlet centers in Ingolstadt and Wertheim.
• Financing and refinancing of several large-scale real estate projects, inter alia for CentrO Oberhausen and for Value Retail with volume in three-digit-amounts.
• 3W/ING counseling of a joint-venture regarding a so-called City construction dialogue for the re-development of the inner-city of Hanau.