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Michael Köhn
Equity Partner, Lawyer, Notary
Business Sectors: Real Estate
HFK Rechtsanwälte
Knesebeckstraße 1
10623 Berlin
T +49 30 3186 7549
F +49 30 3186 7529
E koehn@hfk.de
Profile
- Specialised in notarisation under real estate law
- Long-term experience, especially in the notarisation and processing of various real estate transactions, property development projects, and complex divisions under the Wohnungseigentumsgesetz (German Condominium Act)
- Individual and personal support for private as well as commercial and institutional clients
- Fast and reliable preparation and smooth handling of the notarisation processes, within a team of committed and service-oriented notary clerks
Key Expertise
Focussed on working as a notary in real estate
- Drafting, notarising, and processing various real estate transactions (multi-family and commercial buildings, condominiums, single-family houses, and residential parks)
- Property developer projects (new buildings, renovation of old buildings, and attic conversion/add-on storeys)
- Divisions into condominiums together with the drafting of community regulations
- Creation and transfer of heritable building rights
- Creation and processing of financing securities, easements and building encumbrances
- Transfers of property by way of anticipated succession
Another field of activity in the notary's office is corporate law
- Founding companies in all manner of legal forms
- Carrying out shareholder and general meetings
- Corporate actions
- Contributions, Transfers of Shares and Trust Agreements
- Company Purchase Agreements
- Transformation processes (mergers, splits, change of legal form, etc.)
- Liquidations
Working as lawyer is limited to advice in connection with real estate transactions, the review and drafting of real estate purchase contracts, and the clarification of notary fee law issues.
Career
- Lawyer and Notary at HFK Rechtsanwälte Heiermann Franke Knipp und Partner mbB, since 2017
- Lawyer and Notary at DSC Legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, from 2012 to 2017
- Lawyer (from 1998 to 2012) and Notary (as of 2010) at Notaries Böninger + Köhn
- Deutsche Notarrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (German Notarial Association)
- Support group of the Institute for Notary Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- ARGE Anwaltsnotariat im Deutschen Anwaltsverein (Consortium for Attorney Notary Office law in the German Bar Association)
- ARGE Mietrecht und Immobilien im Deutschen Anwaltsverein (Consortium for law of tenancy and real estate in the German Bar Association)
- Deutscher Anwaltsverein (German Bar Association)
- Berliner Anwaltsverein (Berlin Bar Association)