Herman leads Houthoff’s Real Estate practice and advises on a wide range of real estate transactions (share deals and asset deals), real estate financings, and area (including inner city) and project development. He also advises on the set-up of development and investment structures. Moreover, Herman advises on property law structuring (apartment complexes, ground lease contracts, building rights) of real estate developments and projects. His clients are international investors and large Dutch investors and project developers. Herman has received a Band 1 ranking from Chambers Europe for his work in Real Estate: Leading Notaries. Legal 500 has recognised him as a Leading Individual in the field of Real Estate.
Herman Lohman
Civil-law Notary | Partner
- Together with the VMRG, the branch organization for facades, Houthoff has developed the very first lease-based agreement whereby the facade of a building remains the property of the facade builders after delivery by way of a right of ground lease. A right of ground lease has not been used in such a way before. This means a breakthrough in the circular facade economy.
- Assisted Heimstaden AB with the indirect acquisition and financing of 9,544 residential units in the Netherlands at a purchase price of EUR 1.4 billion. Through this acquisition, Heimstaden has become the third largest private residential property owner in the Netherlands. This is the largest real estate transaction ever in the Netherlands in terms of the number of housing units.
- Assisted Global Logistic Properties in the acquisition of the European logistics business IDI Gazeley. Global Logistic Properties, a Singapore-listed investor, acquired IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management, the world's second-largest real estate fund manager. The transaction value amounts to approx USD 2,8 billion.
- Notarial Law (Leiden University)
- Member of the Association of Real Estate Lawyers (VVJ)
- Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Member of the Association for Civil Law
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