New Arrival in Real Estate Investment Group – Annette Pospich is moving to Noerr

Noerr’s Real Estate Investment Group welcomes a prominent new arrival: as of 1 June Annette Pospich will join Noerr’s Düsseldorf office as an Associated Partner. Annette Pospich comes from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Düsseldorf where she headed the real estate team.

“Annette Pospich is one of the most renowned experts for transactions and asset management in the field of real property”, emphasises Professor Dr. Alexander Goepfert, head of Noerr’s Real Estate Investment Group (REIG). “With Annette we will even further strengthen especially our services to private equity investors.” Annette Pospich specialises particularly in legal advice on real property transactions in the retail industry as well as in the field of offices and logistics. She also regularly advises funds and investment banks on acquisitions and also comprehensively on all issues of asset management.

“What has caused me to move to Noerr is, above all, the excellent reputation and meanwhile dominating market position of the Real Estate Investment Group, as well as Noerr’s dynamic growth and its full-service approach”, says Annette Pospich. “The Group’s interdisciplinary team with its broad expertise offers the ideal basis for executing complex transactions rapidly and efficiently.”

The Real Estate Investment Group consist of more than 60 closely linked experts of a range of disciplines and is thus able to provide clients in the real estate sector with unique interdisciplinary consultancy services. With this approach REIG has been able in the past few years to continuously expand its market share and in 2014 was the market leader in Germany with its involvement in four top-10 transactions (source: Thomas Daily). Significant cases in 2014 included advice to

• Deutsche Annington on the purchase of the DeWAG portfolio (11,500 housing units), the simultaneous integration of the Vitus portfolio with a total of 30,000 housing units, as well as the subsequent sale of 9,600 housing units to LEG
• a consortium on the financing of the “Mall of Berlin“
• ActivumSG on the takeover of the housing project developer formart from HOCHTIEF AG
• the U.S. REIT MPT on the takeover of the Median hospitals by MPT and Waterland