Competencies
Practice Areas
- Real estate transactions as asset deals and share/unit deals for portfolio properties and project developments (forward funding/forward purchase)
- Ongoing asset management, rental and lease agreements
- Land law including complex subdivisions and campus developments/urban development projects
- Advisory services with a main focus on the office and retail sectors including shopping centres
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Education and Professional Experience
- Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2008
- Admitted to practise law in Germany (2008)
- Secondments to a commercial law firm in London and an asset management company in Munich
- Previously worked at an international law firm and a commercial law firm in Dresden
- Studies at the TU Dresden
- Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Languages
- English, German
Awards
- Recommended lawyer in the fields of “Real Estate Law”, “Project Development and Plant Engineering” and “Construction Law” (Juve Handbuch 2023-2025)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Real Estate Law” (The Legal 500 2021-2024)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the area of “Real Estate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2020-2024)
Publications
- Franke, Monique et al.: Meyer – Handbuch Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht, in: C.H. Beck Verlag, 1. Auflage, 2022.
- Franke, Monique / Dr. Brückner, Dirk: Die Entstehung eines urbanen Stadtquartiers, immobilienmanager 12/2019, S. 22 f.
- Franke, Monique/ Dimmling, Andreas: Kein Tilgungsbestimmungsrecht des Insolvenzverwalters bei Auskehr des aus der Verwertung der dem Vermieterpfandrecht unterliegenden Gegenständen erzielten Erlöses (Anm. z. BGH, Beschl. v. 9.10. 2014 – IX ZR 69/14), in: Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht (ZfIR), 1/2015, S. 34-28.
- Franke, Monique: Rechtsprechung zum Vertragsrecht, Anmerkung zum BGH Urteil vom 25.04.2013 (IX ZR 62/12), in: ZfIR, 15/2013, S. 547-549.