2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
Marc P. Werner, LL.M. (Miami)
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
Dutch, English, German
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Chambers Europe, 2019He shapes the hotel contract world, is very well connected and an active contributor to the industry
Marc P. Werner’s experience in real estate transactions and real estate financing spans more than 20 years. In particular regarding his niche competence in the hotel industry, he is considered as one of the top lawyers in Germany. He is the "go to" lawyer if it comes to hotel management agreements, lease agreements, franchise agreements and the sale or purchase of single assets and portfolios in the hotel industry.
Competitors, investors, banks, operators and real estate agents acknowledge him as "one of the best for hotels". He is widely known for his pragmatic and solutions-oriented approach and "his opinion counts; if he talks about market standards everyone believes him" (Chambers Europe). Marc P. Werner is Head of the Global Hotels, Leisure & Gaming Group of Hogan Lovells and was Managing Partner of the Frankfurt office from 2011 to 2022.
Chambers Europe, 2018Marc Werner "has a very good understanding of all aspects of real estate transactions for hotel properties. (client)
Representative experience
Advising U City on the acquisition of the Vienna House hotel portfolio.
Advising Leopard Group/Fattal Hotels on the sale-and-lease-back of a pan-European portfolio (18 hotels, volume EUR 400 m) to the Swedish investor Pandox.
Advising Art-Invest on the acquisition of the four-star Maritim Hotel Cologne, the five-star Dorint Hotel Maison Messmer in Baden-Baden and the Moxy Hotel in Cologne.
Advising Groß & Partner for the conclusion of a lease agreement for a Hyatt House in the Frankfurt high-rise project FOUR.
Advising Union Investment in the acquisition of various individual hotel properties and portfolios.
Advising Invesco on the acquisition of a 25hours hotel in Florence.
Advising various hotel operators, hotel investors, hotel developers and financing banks.
Advising Terra Firma on the purchase of the Welcome Hotels hotel chain from the Warsteiner Group.
Advising Ivanhoé Cambridge on the sale of its European hotel portfolio of a total of 18 hotels.
Advising RFR Holding GmbH on the acquisition of the Taschenbergpalais Kempinski in Dresden.
Advising Hilton on contract extension and modernization of the Hilton Munich City.
Advising Groß & Partner on the market entry of the Kimpton Hotel Group in Germany and on the implementation of a hotel together with the NH Group.
Advising benchmark REAL Estate Development GmbH on the implementation and sale of its first hotel project in Hamburg.
Credentials
Education
- Second State Exam in Law, Goethe University Frankfurt, 1996
- LL.M., University of Miami, 1994
- First State Exam in Law, Goethe University Frankfurt, 1992
Memberships
- CoreNet Global
- German-American Law Association
- German-Dutch Law Association