Nicole Bittlingmayer

Nicole Bittlingmayer

Nicole Bittlingmayer

Frankfurt a.M.

T +49 69 27229 24710

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Industries Real Estate & Infrastructure

Areas of practice

Nicole Bittlingmayer has more than 20 years of experience in advising German and international clients on investment and regulatory law. She focuses on advising on licensing and registration procedures as well as product-related approval procedures, on the cross-border structuring, launch, administration and liquidation of alternative investment funds, on the structuring and implementation of service KVG models and on outsourcing issues as well as on national and international transactions (with a focus on real estate). Her clients include German and international fund management companies, alternative investment funds, asset managers, custodians and institutional investors. One focus of her advisory work is currently in the area of Sustainable Finance/ESG. In particular, she advises on compliance with the regulatory requirements of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (Disclosure Regulation) and Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (Taxonomy Regulation), assists with the implementation of disclosure requirements at company and product level and advises on reporting obligations.

Practices
Vita

Nicole Bittlingmayer studied law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). In 2000, she commenced her professional career in a company of the METRO Group, advising on real estate and M&A transactions. From 2002 to 2007, she worked as Legal Counsel at Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH (today, PATRIZIA Frankfurt Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH), then the leading management company for open-end institutional real estate funds in the market.

As a member of the company’s legal department, Nicole Bittlingmayer primarily advised on all regulatory, tax and corporate law and financing aspects of the real estate fund business, including all global real estate transactions, and on how to handle the legal relations between the company and fund investors and supervisory authorities. In 2007, Nicole Bittlingmayer moved from her in-house position to the US law firm King & Spalding LLP in Frankfurt (Germany), where she helped found the new office. She worked there as Counsel on the real estate capital markets team until April 2020.

One of her current focus areas is advising on sustainable finance/ESG. In this area, she particularly advises on compliance with the regulatory requirements under Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (Disclosure Regulation) and Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (Taxonomy Regulation), assists with the implementation of the disclosure requirements at company and product level and advises on reporting obligations.

Honors and distinctions
  • The Legal 500 Germany 2024: Mention in the category "Investment Funds" (first mention in 2023, "Martin Hüwel and Nicole Bittlingmayer deserve special mention.")
  • Legal 500 EMEA Green Guide 2024: Mention for Germany
  • Best Lawyers 2024: Recommendation in "Real Estate Law" (first recommendation in 2020)
Clients

  • Providing regulatory advice on the sale of an open-end special real estate fund by way of a unit deal
  • Advising investment management companies and asset managers on the regulatory compliance of national and international real estate transactions
  • Advising investment management companies and asset managers on structuring and setting up (open-end and closed-end) real estate funds, as well as on related distribution law issues and on investments by German regulated investors in such funds
  • Advising market participants on structuring and setting up cross-border fund structures (in particular in Luxembourg)
  • Advising national and international alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) and asset managers on the distribution of investment funds
  • Advising asset managers and investment management companies on devising and implementing outsourcing structures (outsourcing/advisory models)
  • Advising national and international clients on how to establish/take over regulatory platforms (authorisation, authorisation extension and registration procedures for investment management companies under the German Capital Investment Code (Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch – KAGB))
  • Advising investment management companies and custodians on the dissolution/liquidation of special funds

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