Competencies
Practice Areas
- Real estate law, in particular transactions, (including forward deals and forward funding), commercial tenancy and lease law (inter alia project development lease agreements), asset management, real estate agent law, land law (including hereditary building rights) as well as apartment ownership under Germany’s residential property law
- Hotel management agreements (hotel rental and lease agreements, franchise, management and hybrid agreements, etc.), drafting of contracts for restaurants and all types of property in the hospitality and leisure sector
- Litigation in all the above areas
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Education and Professional Experience
- Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2012
- Many years of experience as in-house counsel and more recently as head of the legal department at the German headquarters of Europe’s largest hotel group
- LL.M. in Real Estate Law from the University of Münster
- Admitted to practise law in Germany (2005)
- Research assistant at an international commercial law firm in Dresden und Munich
- Trainee lawyer with the Higher Regional Court Dresden
- Law studies at the LMU Munich
- Graduate of the Strait Area Education and Recreation Center in Port Hawkesbury, Canada
Languages
- English, German
Memberships
- Member of the committee of legal affairs of IHA German Hotel Association
Awards
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the field of “Real Estate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2024)
Publications
- Schlapka, Stefan J. et al.: Meyer – Handbuch Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht, in: C.H. Beck Verlag, 1. Auflage, 2022.
- Schlapka, Stefan / Eichberger, Tassilo: Die Werbeanlage – Zankapfel für die Wohnungseigentümergemeinschaft, ZMR Zeitschrift für Miet- und Raumrecht, 2005, Seite 927 ff.
