Partner

Dr. Peter Vocke

Düsseldorf

+49 211 600 55-369 +49 211 600 55-362

Languages
German, English, French
Practice groups/Expertise
Real Estate & ConstructionLitigation & ArbitrationESG - Sustainable Management
Consulting focuses
  • Land Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • Real Estate Transactions
  • Tenancy Law
  • Brokerage Law
  • Property Management
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Civil Litigation
  • Compulsory Enforcement Law
  • Investment Funds
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Insurance Law
  • Reinsurance Law
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Vita

  • Admitted since 2001
  • Education and former activities
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Düsseldorf (as to 2008 Hölters & Elsing Rechtsanwälte) 2002 to 2013
  • ASPELIN & BRIDGMAN, L.L.P., San Francisco (USA) 2000 to 2001
  • District Court (Landgericht) Düsseldorf Trainee (Referendar), 1999
  • University of Konstanz 1993 to 1998; Dr. jur. 2002

Qualifications/current topics

  • Lecturer at ADI (Academy for real estate industry)
  • IBA Real Estate Officer
  • Jury member Next Economy Award
  • Jury member GC Academy Award 2019

Affiliations

  • Council member at ADI (Academy for real estate industry)
  • German Council of Shopping Centers (GCSC)
  • DIS 40 – Initiative of young arbitrators
  • International Bar Association (IBA)

Dr. Peter Vocke's Distinctions

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2024/2025

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024

Best Lawyers 2025

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Legal 500 Germany 2024

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/2024

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023

Best Lawyers 2024

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022

Best Lawyers 2023

WirtschaftsWoche Top Anwalt 2022

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2021/2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021

Best Lawyers 2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2020

WirtschaftsWoche TOP Anwalt 2021

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2020/2021

Best Lawyers 2021

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2019

Best Lawyers 2020

Legal 500 EMEA 2019

kanzleimonitor 2018/2019

Legal 500 Germany 2019

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2018

Best Lawyers 2019

Legal 500 EMEA 2018

kanzleimonitor 2017/2018

Legal 500 Germany 2018

Legal 500 EMEA 2017

Legal 500 Germany 2017

JUVE Award 2016

JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2014/2015

Legal 500 EMEA 2014

Legal 500 Deutschland 2014

Latest news

09-11-2024
HEUKING advises FLOWFRAME on acquisition of Pfeifer group
06-13-2024
Best Lawyers recognizes 165 HEUKING lawyers – Two “Lawyers of the Year” awards
11-14-2023
LEG, advised by Heuking, sells Calor Carré in Ratingen to Westgard GmbH
10-02-2023
Heuking advises the family office Wirtgen Invest on the acquisition of the Motel-One hotel development at Schillerstraße 3 in Munich from Concrete Capital
more news

Projects

Advising DOMICIL Real Estate Group on the acquisition of ALPHA and BETA portfolios
Advising AL-KO SE on contract with Dexter Axle to form DexKo Global
Advising Fair Value REIT-AG on cash capital increase
Advising Westgrund AG on capital increase of up to EUR 140 million
Advice to CentrO Oberhausen on the sale of their shares to Unibail-Rodamco SE (Paris)
Advising Volksbank Rhein-Ruhr eG on acquiring the Alltours building at Duisburg Inner Harbor
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advises the investors of MEP led by entrepreneur Ralf Schulte on sale to special fund of Munich-based Real I.S. Group
Canadian Pension Plan (CPP): Acquisition of the Kaufhof building in CentrO Oberhausen
Advising owners of CentrO Oberhausen on acquisition of SinnLeffers real property at CentrO
Advising the German subsidiary of UK-based Kexgill Ltd. on the acquisition of a large student residence portfolio all across Germany
Advising a closed-end special fund of British residential real estate company Circle Anglia Ltd. on the acquisition of a large residential real estate portfolio all across Germany
3w/ING advice to a joint venture on the urban development dialogue on the reorganization of the downtown of Hanau
Refinancing of the CentrO Oberhausen shopping center by a consortium of insurers and banks at a loan volume of EUR 650 million
Sale of a multi-story car park in development
Bridging financing of an offshore wind park
Sale of 50% in CentrO Oberhausen by Stadium Group to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board at a sales volume of about EUR 650 million
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, UK: Acquisition of several retail properties and various portfolios of healthcare and retail real estate at a total transaction value in excess of EUR 200 million
AXA Investment Managers Deutschland GmbH: Acquisition and sale of various individual properties in the fields of retailing, offices, hotels, logistics and residential real estate at a total transaction volume of about EUR 1 billion

Publications

2019

Issue 15 - Immobilienunternehmen
Handbuch Unternehmenskauf, Hölters (Ed..), 9th edition 2019

2016

Challenging retail: multichannel concepts and the question of turnover
International Real Estate News, IBA, September 2016

2015

Umsatz oder nicht?
Immobilienmanager, 12-2015, p. 14-15
Praxishandbuch Gewerberaummiete
Tipps und Tools für Vermieter und Rechtsanwälte, Fritzsche/Bonnmann/Vocke (ed.), De Gruyter Verlag 2015
more publications

Lectures

2019

1. Düsseldorfer Immobilien Talk (DIT)
Zum Leitthema "Immobilienwirtschaft 2025", October 29, 2019

2018

Squaring the circle: innovative asset management and add-value-strategies in times of high prices
10th Annual Real Estate Investments Conference, June 07, 2018, Zurich

2016

Recent developments in M&A real estate
8th IBA Real Estate Investment Conference, April 14, 2016, Copenhagen

2015

Negotiation clinic: sharpening your skills
Presented by the Real Estate Committee, Annual Conference of the International Bar Association (IBA), October 8, 2015 in Vienna
Retail roundabout: hot topics in fashion, fun and food retail
IBA 7th Annual Real Estate Conference, April 23, 2015, Atlanta

2011

How to negotiate Contracts successfully (Verträge erfolgreich verhandeln)
Management Circle, 26./27. September 2011, Berlin

2006

How to negotiate Contracts successfully (Verträge erfolgreich verhandeln)
Management-Circle, 14./15. February 2006, Munich

2005

Facility Management (Kompaktkurs Immobilienverwaltung)
Management-Circle, 13./14. April 2005, Frankfurt/Main

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