News from Capst­one

Educa­tion and career:

• Founding partner of Capst­one Legal since 2020
• Partner at Jebens Mensching PartG mbB
• Lawyer (Rechts­an­wäl­tin) at Fresh­fields Bruck­haus Derin­ger LLP in the field of Corporate/M&A
• Legal clerk­ship at the Hansea­tic Higher Regio­nal Court with place­ments in Frank­furt and London
• Docto­rate at the Univer­sity of Hamburg in the field of Law & Economics
• Law studies, Bucerius Law School Hamburg and Cambridge University

Experi­ence:

Most recently, Hildrun Siepmann advised on the follo­wing cases, among others (some of them in the previous firm):

• Capst­one advises lease of a NIKE flagship store at NEO Leipzig
• Capst­one advises May & Co. on letting of 8,200 sqm to InnoGa­mes in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises Retail­ors Germany GmbH on letting of over 900 sqm Nike flagship store at Westfield Centro Oberhausen
• Capst­one advises WATZL Group on new lease to NUMA in Stuttgart
• Capst­one advises on the Sale of a Multi-Use Commer­cial Property in Munich
• Capst­one advises YPOG on new lease in Cologne’s Gerling Garden
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on new lease for SATELLITE NINE 4 in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises on lease of around 6,300 sqm to SEFE in Berlin 
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on new leases in Munich’s Leopoldstrasse
• Capst­one advises on lease of around 7,000 sqm to O2 Telefó­nica in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises YPOG on the lease of its new Hamburg office with appro­xi­m­ately 4,150 sqm
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on the sale of the histo­ric office and retail property „Emmler Lofts“ in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on new lease with BCG group company
• Capst­one advises on execu­tion of real estate joint venture
• Capst­one advises on conclu­sion of portfo­lio of hotel leases
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on the purchase of an office building in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises on sale of multi-use commer­cial property in Dresden
• Capst­one advises YPOG on the renting of its new office space of appro­xi­m­ately 3000 sqm in Berlin
• JUVE: Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on the sale of a portfo­lio of three office proper­ties to funds of Bayeri­sche Versorgungskammer
• Capst­one advises on leasing of around 2,600 sqm to Allen & Overy
• Quest Invest­ment Partners on various projects in Berlin, inclu­ding the purchase of the residen­tial and commer­cial building at Müllerstraße 151 in a share deal and the sale of an office building on Brunnen­straße to WHIH
• STRABAG Real Estate on the purchase of a develo­p­ment site in Hamburg City Süd
• QUEST Invest­ment Partners on the leasing of the „Neue Burg“ property to Unile­ver and its sale to Aviva
• ECE and STRABAG Real Estate on the sale of two IQ landmark buildings in Hamburg to Real I.S.Stenprop on the sale of the shopping centre „Nova Eventis“ in a share deal
• AXA IM on the purchase of the retail and hotel property „Hainspitze“ in Leipzig

Educa­tion and career:

• Partner at Capst­one Legal since 2022
• Counsel at GÖRG Partner­schaft von Rechts­an­wäl­ten mbB
• Princi­pal Associate at Fresh­fields Bruck­haus Derin­ger LLP
• Legal clerk­ship at the Hansea­tic Higher Regio­nal Court with station in Frankfurt
• Docto­rate at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
• Law studies and docto­rate at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg and Willa­mette Univer­sity (Salem, OR, USA)

Experi­ence:

Most recently, Stefan advised, inter alia, the follo­wing clients (at former law firms):

• Capst­one advises May & Co. on letting of 8,200 sqm to InnoGa­mes in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises Quest Invest­ment Partners on new lease to Deloitte at RAW Frankfurt
• Capst­one advised Select Alter­na­tive Invest­ments on the acqui­si­tion of a majority stake in an office complex from Branicks Group AG
• Capst­one advises on Lease Exten­sion with Police at Steindamm
• Capst­one advised Deutsche Invest­ment on the acqui­si­tion of a mixed commer­cial and residen­tial property in Berlin
• Capst­one advises on the Sale of a Multi-Use Commer­cial Property in Munich
• Capst­one advises lease of new headquar­ters of New Work SE
• Capst­one advises DIC Asset AG on full letting of over 4,700 sqm in Frank­fur­t’s „Global Tower“
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on new lease for SATELLITE NINE 4 in Hamburg
• Capst­one advises on lease of around 6,300 sqm to SEFE in Berlin 
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on new leases in Munich’s Leopoldstrasse
• Capst­one advises DIC Asset AG on new leases over 6,200 sqm in Frankfurt’s „Global Tower“
• Capst­one advises YPOG on the lease of its new Hamburg office with appro­xi­m­ately 4,150 sqm
• Capst­one advises QUEST Invest­ment Partners on the sale of the histo­ric office and retail property „Emmler Lofts“ in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Stone Invest­ments on the purchase of a local shopping and medical centre in Magdeburg
• Values Real Estate on the acqui­si­tion of a logistics building in Hanau
• Aurelis Real Estate on the sale of the office buildings „DB Brick“ and „DB Tower“ in Frank­furt to Warburg-HIH

Short résumé:

• Head of Adminis­tra­tion – Capst­one Legal
• Manage­ment Assistant | Office Manager – Capst­one Legal
• Office Manager - The Creative Club
• Manage­ment Assistant | Office Manager – PIA Group
• Office Manager – Whoohoo
• Front Office Manager - Accor
• Appren­ti­ce­ship in Hotel Manage­ment - Accor

Short résumé:

• Team Assistant | Office Manager - Capst­one Legal
• Backof­fice Manager - Endlich Freelan­cing GmbH
• Head of POS Marke­ting - Der Medien­ver­trieb GmbH
• Sales Manager Real Estate - Presse­ver­trieb Nord KG
• Sales Assistant - Presse­ver­trieb Nord KG
• Appren­ti­ce­ship as a whole­sale and foreign trade merchant - Presse­ver­trieb Nord KG

Educa­tion and career:

• 12 years as Legal Direc­tor Germany at Value Retail Manage­ment Germany GmbH, part of the inter­na­tio­nal group The Bices­ter Collection
• In-house counsel at ECE Projekt­ma­nage­ment G.m.b.H. & Co. KG, oversee­ing shopping center develo­p­ments in Central and Eastern Europe
• Senior Associate in the Real Estate practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, Hamburg
• Associate in the Real Estate practice at Clifford Chance LLP, Düsseldorf
• Docto­rate in European Environ­men­tal and Planning Law from the Univer­sity of Bremen
• Law studies at Philipps Univer­sity Marburg, Rijks­uni­ver­si­teit Limburg, and Saarland University

Experi­ence:

Dr. Anne Caroline Krenz last advised on the follo­wing cases, among others:

• Capst­one advises NIKE on the lease of a flagship store at NEO Leipzig