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Focus

CONSTRUCTION +
REAL ESTATE

Real Estate Transactions

Our law firm has provided legal advice on property transactions of various sizes, including the sale/purchase of complex industrial and other commercial properties. Our areas of expertise in this field include in particular

  • Legal support for the purchase or sale of property;
  • the realisation / support of due diligence audits;
  • property leasing;
  • Advice on sale-and-lease-back models;
  • Advice and contract drafting with regard to financing and
  • the drafting and negotiation of all necessary contracts.

Dr. Matthias Zieres Partner

Focus areas

Career trajectory

  • Studied law and postgraduate studies in international business law at Saarland University and the University of London
  • 1997 Admitted to the bar and joined the law firm Kropp Haag Hübinger
  • 2000 Admission to the law firm Kropp Haag Hübinger
  • 2001 Doctorate (Dr. jur.) at the University of Saarland
  • Since 2005, lawyer of trust of the Saarland state government to combat corruption

References

  • "Frequently recommended lawyer" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025)
  • "Top advisor" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2012/2013)
  • "internat. clientele" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2008/2009)
  • "The next generation of partners, Zieres is frequently mentioned here, has succeeded in acquiring a whole series of foreign and international clients" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2006/2007)
  • "Hong Kong or India ... Quite untypical for a Saarbrücken-based lawyer, some of his most important clients are based there" (JUVE Rechtsmarkt 08/2006)
  • "The driving force ... the young public procurement lawyer Zieres" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2005/2006)
  • "praised by colleagues from large law firms for his litigation work in the area of public procurement law", "especially software law - was mentioned because of his Europe-wide public procurement law work for this sector" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2001/2002)
  • Included in JUVE Rechtsmarkt's "40 under 40" list of leading young lawyers in Germany in 2001: "excellent work, which even colleagues from large law firms in the major cities recognize", "good reputation in public procurement law" (JUVE Rechtsmarkt 08/2001)
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  • Member of the "Specialist Lawyer for Information Technology Law" committee of the Saarland Bar Association (since 2008)

  • DVNW German Procurement Network
  • Information Technology Working Group of the German Bar Association
  • Construction and Real Estate Law Working Group of the German Bar Association
  • Institute for Lawyers' Law Saarbrücken (founding member)
  • Saarland Bar Association

  • From the 23rd to the 26th edition co-author of the standard work on liability law: Geigel, Der Haftpflichtprozess, Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich
  • Lectures on EU public procurement law, green public procurement, socially responsible public procurement, competition law and contract drafting, among others
  • Speaker at national and international conferences on public procurement law topics
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