Stefan Kucera advises national and international investors, funds, real estate managers, loan servicers, familiy offices, and insurance companies as well as property developers in construction and real estate law, in particular for the asset classes retail, residential and hotel. He is specialized in drafting contracts for real estate transactions for existing properties or for project developments in the context of asset or share deals and joint ventures. Other areas of advice include property and asset management contracts as well as construction and property development contracts. He also advises in the area of strategic litigation, forced administration and compulsory auctions.
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (1993)
- Admitted as a German lawyer in 1996
- Doctorate in Corporate Law (Dr. jur., 1998)
- Start of career as litigation attorney, latterly partner at a law firm dealing with appeal cases (1996 – 2001)
- Lawyer at Lovells (now Hogan Lovells), focus on Real Estate (2001 – 2004)
- Founding partner of KUCERA (2004)
Languages: German and English
Publications:
- Co-author of Beck online forms for litigation law (C.H. Beck-Verlag)
Awards:
- Recommended as TOP Lawyer 2021 in the area of Reals Estate Law (WirtschaftsWoche)
- In the ranking Best Lawyers 2017, 2020 and 2022 in Real Estate Business Law (Handelsblatt)
- The Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2019
- Recommended Real Estate Lawyer in: Wirtschaftswoche: 25 Top-Kanzleien für Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht (25 top law firms for Real Estate Law), 2014
Memberships:
- Institut for Construction Freiburg im Breisgau e.V. (IfBF)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
