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Bernhard Gemmel

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  • Frankfurt
    Platz der Einheit 2
    Gebäude Pollux
    60327 Frankfurt am Main
    Germany

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Bernhard Gemmel, Maître en Droit, is a partner in Salans' Frankfurt office. He specialises in banking and financing transactions, in particular project finance, real estate finance, export/trade finance and acquisition finance/LBO.

Prior to joining Salans, Bernhard Gemmel was a partner at Shearman & Sterling and Beiten Burkhardt. Mr. Gemmel is recommended in the Chambers Global Directory (forthcoming edition 2012) as a leading practitioner in banking and finance. Further he is recommended in the Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers published by Euromoney Legal Media Group by clients and competitors as one of the leading project finance lawyers in Germany (since 2004; latest edition 2011) and quoted for his expertise in the Legal 500 EMEA and the Legal 500 Germany directories (2010/2011). Bernhard Gemmel is a German and French qualified lawyer.

Recent Experience:

  • Advising several major real estate private equity funds on an ongoing basis in the financing and/or refinancing of their real estate investments in Germany (ongoing)
  • Advising IVG Institutional Funds in the financing of the acquisition of the N21 office building in Warsaw
  • Advising a leading CIS IT Group in the implementation of an international corporate restructuring involving group companies in seven jurisdictions
  • Advising Chenavari Investment Managers as purchaser of a distressed CMBS portfolio loan from the B-Note Lender
  • Advising several loan servicers/ special loan servicers in respect of numerous CMBS portfolio loans
  • Advising several German and international lenders in ECA export and project financings to Poland, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine

Career:

  • Partner – Salans, Frankfurt (2011 to date)
  • Partner – Beiten Burkhardt (2004–2010)
  • Attorney and Partner – Shearman & Sterling (1996–2004)

Education:

  • Zweite Juristische Staatsprüfung (Second State Examination), 1996
  • Erste Juristische Staatsprüfung (First State Examination), 1993
  • Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (law degree, 1993)
  • Université Nancy II (Maîtrise en Droit Privé, Mention Droit des Affaires ; Licence en Droit Privé, 1991)
  • Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (D.E.U.G Mention Droit, 1989)

Languages:

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Publications:


  • 01 Dec 2011
    More incentives needed, Special Supplement: Infrastructure Law 2011, December 2011, p. 16-17 (Co-author)

  • 01 Aug 2011
    Der Entwurf des Projektfinanzierungsgesetzes in der Russischen Föderation, in RIW, Heft 8/2011, S. 508-511 (Co-author)

  • 01 Jun 2011
    Germany: a post-nuclear energy bet, Supplement - The 2011 Guide to Project Finance, IFLR (International Financial Law Review),The Global Practice Service, June 2011 (Co-author)

  • 15 May 2011
    "Interest Rate Swap Judgment by the BGH (Federal Court of Justice) and its Practical Consequences", Reporting on Legal and Regulatory Developments Affecting Foreign Companies Operating in the EU, in EuroWatch®, Thomson Reuters, p. 7-9

  • 06 May 2011
    Salans Germany Banking & Finance Client Alert: Interest rate the BGH (Federal Court of Justice) and its practical consequences

  • More......