Peter Junghänel is Partner in the Real Estate Practice Group at Eversheds Sutherland in Frankfurt.
He advises on real estate transactions including purchase/sale, sale & leaseback, lease agreements, hereditary building rights, and land issues.
Peter also has extensive experience in joint ventures, M&A, and private equity transactions (MBOs and LBOs).
He advises a broad base of international and German clients, including institutional investors, opportunity funds, retail and special funds, family offices, and project developers.
Peter’s recent experience includes representing:
- Clarion Partners Europe on the acquisition and financing of a modern, high-quality logistics property in Sarstedt, Hanover (2026)
- Clarion Partners Europe on the acquisition of a portfolio of seven major logistics properties in the Netherland and Germany by was of a share deal (2024/2025)*
- Clarion Partners Europe on the acquisition of a portfolio of five major logistics properties in Germany from Blackstone by way of a share deal (2023/2024)*
- Batipart SAS on its sale of Center Parc Hochsauerland (2025)*
- UK family office on the acquisition of a residential portfolio in Berlin by way of a share deal (2024)*
- KanAm Institutional Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH on the forward acquisition of a major logistics site, let to the German armed forces (2024)*
- A joint venture between GIC and Melcombe partners on a number of successful transactions in the German market (2021 to 2025)*
- HIH on the acquisition of a Berlin property let to the German federal government from Momeni by way of a unit deal (2019)*
- A joint venture between GreenOak and Apeiron on the acquisition of a portfolio of four major logistics properties (2018)*
- Gramercy Property Europe plc on the sale of 100% of the Fund’s assets to a consortium of clients managed by AXA Investment Managers (2017)*
- Castlelake, L.P. on its acquisition of the Gravity real estate portfolio from the financial investors Marcol and Marathon Asset Management. The transaction was structured as a combined share and loan acquisition (2017)*
- Castlelake, L.P. on a number of successful transactions in the German market (2016 to 2018)*
*advised in previous firm
- Peter Junghänel is consistently recommended as a leading advisor in real estate law by top publications such as JUVE (e.g. 2024/2025), Chambers Europe, Chambers Germany (tier 4, 2025), Legal 500, and Best Lawyers (since 2013)
- Peter is a member of the Urban Land Institute, a global organization that focuses on a variety of verticals within the real estate industry
- Peter was admitted to the bar in 1999 and qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2002