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Dr. Olaf Fasshauer is a member of Dechert’s global finance and real estate practice groups with over 20 years of experience representing clients, many of whom are key players in the real estate industry, in complex domestic as well as cross-border commercial real estate and finance matters, including portfolio and single high value property transactions, loan originations, sale-and-leasebacks, heritable building rights and property developments.
Across sectors, Dr. Fasshauer also advises clients on data protection legislation, including GDPR. As a member of Dechert's cyber, privacy and AI practice, also serving as the firm’s data protection officer, he handles compliance projects, cross-border data flow issues, data breach notifications, data subject requests and defends clients against actions of competitors and regulators.
Dr. Fasshauer regularly advises on complex employment matters in the context of corporate transactions, including on workforce transfers under German TUPE (Transfers of Undertakings Directive 2001) regulations and drafting and negotiating collective agreements with works councils and trade unions.
He is recognized as leading lawyer by clients and peers in these key areas of practice. He is ranked as one of the “Best Lawyers in Germany 2024” by German nationwide daily Handelsblatt for data security and privacy as well as in IFLR1000's rankings for banking and for real estate, and by Legal Experts in the categories of construction and real estate.
- Hg and its portfolio company Septeo on the acquisition of stp.one from Bregal.
- Shareholders of LARALAB GmbH, developer of heart.ai, on the sale of LARALAB to Abbott Laboratories.
- Shurgard on its Acquisition of PRIME in Germany.
- Shurgard, the largest developer, owner, and operator of self-storage facilities in Europe, on its acquisition of Pickens, a leading provider of self-storage space in northern Germany. This deal represents one of the largest self-storage transactions in the European market in 2023.
- Shurgard Self Storage SA, the largest developer, owner and operator of self‐storage centers in Europe, on its acquisition of four ZeitLager facilities in Germany.
- CIT on the sale of its European Rail Business Group, NACCO.
- Lazada Group on its acquisition of RedMart, Singapore’s pioneer e-grocer.
- American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) on its acquisition of Klee Data System (KDS), a global provider of integrated travel technology.
- Generali Investments, the main Generali Group asset manager, on its cross-border merger with Generali Investments Deutschland.
- Lazada Group on the US$1 billion sale of a controlling stake to Alibaba Group (M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia by Asia Legal Awards, finalist for TMT Deal of the Year, China Law & Practice Awards, 2017).
- Nordic Yards on the sale to Genting Hong Kong.
- GDPR: The First Six Months - New York, NY (October 11, 2018)
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ph.D. in Law (Dr. jur.)
- Université de Genève, -
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, -
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- Germany
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- German