Dr. Joachim Schmidt

Joachim Schmidt is a banking and finance lawyer, specializing in real estate loans, corporate loans and financial restructurings.

He advises banks, insurance companies, pension funds and debt funds as well as institutional investors, private equity houses and housing companies in connection with complex (cross-border) finance transactions.

His expertise particularly includes all legal aspects of national and cross-border real estate financings (including mortgage loans and Pfandbrief financings, senior and mezzanine loans, real estate project finance, portfolio deals, share deals and asset deals, as well as loan sales (especially, non-performing loans)) as well as (cross-border) financial restructurings and workouts of distressed German real estate financings.

Prior to joining White & Case in 2024, he practiced in the Frankfurt office of another international law firm for more than ten years.