Dr. Jan Riebeling

Jan is a chamber qualified expert lawyer for commercial and corporate law (Fachanwalt für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht) and a specialist in the areas of M&A and private equity.

He advises strategic and financial investors as well as family-managed companies from Germany and abroad on corporate transactions, reorganisation measures and corporate structuring. Jan regularly represents real estate companies in their corporate real estate matters, including advising on share deals, international joint ventures and holding structures. He further has industry expertise in life sciences transactions.

Jan is Local Manager of Taylor Wessing's Hamburg office.

Real estate & construction

Doing Business and Investing in Germany: A guide to help foreign investors

20 September 2022

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CV

Since 2009 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2004 – 2009 Associate, Taylor Wessing

2003 – 2004 Knowledge Management, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Career

Since 2009 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2004 – 2009 Associate, Taylor Wessing

2003 – 2004 Knowledge Management, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Education

2005 Doctoral degree on the application of information and communications technology in insolvency proceedings, CAU Kiel

2003 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg

2002 Second state examination, combined examination board of Hamburg/Bremen/Schleswig-Holstein

Memberships & Associations

BVK Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften

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Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

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The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2023

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2022

Experience

Elite Partners Capital buys large-scale multi-user logistics park near Karlsruhe with Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing advised on all legal issues in all matters relating to the transaction including tax.

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Dr. Daniel Graske

Dr. Kris Breudel, LL.M. (Aberdeen)

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Dr. Jan Riebeling

Julian C. Ludwig

Hannes Tutt

Dr. Christian Ertel

Advising Invesco Real Estate on major international partnership with Westmont

We have advised Invesco Real Estate (Invesco), the global real estate investment manager, on its new strategic long-term partnership with Westmont, one of the largest private hotel property owners and operators with approximately 400 hotels in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Westmont will operate and co-invest in the portfolio of 13 IHG branded hotels located in key cities in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Dr. Adrian Birnbach, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Vera Jurgens

Mark Goorts

Paul Orij

Taylor Wessing advises GARBE on sale of eight logistics centers to Union Investment

International law firm Taylor Wessing, led by Hamburg partner Anja Fenge and Hamburg partner Bernhard Kloft, provided comprehensive legal advice to GARBE Industrial Real Estate on the sale of eight logistics centers to Union Investment. The portfolio consists of six development projects and two existing buildings with a total area of 218,144 square meters. The purchases are being made for two new pan-European logistics special funds launched by Union Investment together with GARBE Industrial Real Estate.

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Dr. Anja Fenge, LL.M.

Bernhard Kloft

Dr. Jan Riebeling

Hannes Tutt

Niels Heim

Nikolaus Vaerst, LL.M. (LSE)

Christoph Scheibner

Galya Stareva, LL.M. (Hamburg)

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Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises thyssenkrupp on the sale of Automation Engineering to Agile Robots

28 November 2025

by multiple authors

Real estate & construction

High-quality property with strong tenant loyalty: Elite Partners Capital buys 180,000 square meters multi-user logistics park near Karlsruhe with Taylor Wessing

1 July 2024

by multiple authors

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