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Albert Steigenberger opened the first Steigenberger Hotel in the Europäischer Hof in Baden-Baden in 1930. This laid the foundation for a hotel group that today operates 160 hotels on three continents under the umbrella brand Deutsche Hospitality. The hotel property with its 180-year history is currently under construction. The luxury hotel is expected to reopen […]

KUCERA advised the Staycity Group on the lease agreement for the Heidelberg hotel at Speyerer Straße 9. The hotel is part of Commerz Real’s Hausinvest portfolio and was reopened at the end of May. It has 300 rooms and is located not far from the main railway station and the congress centre, which is currently […]

This year, Best Lawyers, a US ranking specialist, once again determined Germany’s most renowned legal advisors in an extensive peer-to-peer process exclusively for the Handelsblatt. A procedure in which lawyers are asked which competitors they can recommend. Read more… This year, our KUCERA partners Dr. Stefan Kucera and Oliver Platt, LL.M. (UW-Madison) as well as […]

KUCERA advised Union Institutional Property GmbH on the purchase of the headquarters of OstseeSparkasse (Ospa). The sale took the form of an asset deal for the special fund “German Small Asset Invest II”. The property, built in 2000, is located on Am Vögenteich in Rostock’s city centre and comprises around 19,000 m² of gross floor […]

KUCERA Transactions & Finance Partners Andre Barth and Oliver Platt, LL.M (UW Madison) have contributed to the 3rd edition of the distressed debt industry standard book “Grundlagen des NPL-Geschäfts” („Fundamentals of NPL Business“), published by Frankfurt School Verlag. The topic is due diligence in the acquisition of non-performing loans. Both are “NPL veterans” from the […]

Birgit Böhn was appointed partner with effect from May 2021. Birgit Böhn has been working in the Real Estate Hospitality department at KUCERA since 2012. The focus of her legal work is on advising clients from the hotel and system catering industry, in particular in connection with the drafting and negotiation of contracts for new hotel […]

The French hotel group B&B Hotels and its German company B&B Hotels Germany GmbH have acquired the hotel portfolio of the Starnberg hotel chain Leto Motels by way of an asset deal. The five economy hotels acquired include four existing properties in Munich and Nuremberg as well as a hotel project under construction in Augsburg. […]

KUCERA advised Union Institutional Property GmbH on the purchase of an office, residential and commercial complex. The sale took the form of an asset deal for the special fund “German Small Asset Invest II”. The property, built in 2000, is located in Langenfeld’s city centre and extends over four floors with a total of 14,737 […]

On Monday, 18 January 2021, industry experts discussed the topic: Gastronomy and the hotel industry as catalysts of urban development: the crisis as an opportunity or final shutdown? The corona virus poses massive problems for the gastronomy and hotel industry: The approximately 200,000 businesses in the industry lost an estimated ten billion euros in turnover […]

KUCERA was named a “TOP Law Firm 2021” in the current WirtschaftsWoche listing in the legal field of “Real Estate Law”. Dr. Stefan Kucera was recommended as a “TOP Lawyer 2021”.