Andy Schaal, LL.M.
Areas of practice
Andy Schaal has been specialising and primarily advises on real estate and corporate law. His work in real estate law involves assisting clients with complex – including cross-border – individual transactions and also portfolio transactions for investment funds, family offices and other institutional investors from Germany and abroad. He has extensive experience in real estate law, including relevant aspects of corporate law and financing. Andy Schaal further advises his clients on how to manage, develop and structure their properties, establishments and portfolios and on all matters pertaining to commercial landlord and tenant law.
Andy Schaal is also a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, where he has been teaching business law since the winter semester 2023.
Vita
Andy Schaal studied law at Viadrina European University in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany). Part of his subsequent legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Germany) involved working at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, as well as at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and at Morrison & Foerster LLP (both in Berlin with a focus on real estate law). Andy Schaal was admitted to the German Bar in 2019 and began his professional career at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in real estate and corporate law, following which he moved to Jenckel und Partner Rechtsanwälte and then to GSK Stockmann. Andy Schaal joined Luther in August 2024.
Honors and distinctions
- Best Lawyers 2025: Recommendation under "Ones to Watch" in "Corporate Law" and " Mergers and Acquisition Law" (first recommendation in 2023) as well as in "Real Estate Law" (first recommendation in 2024)
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Associate
Dusseldorf
Lara Zölck
Associate
Berlin
Jan Zimmer
Senior Associate
Singapore
Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin
Martin Zackor, LL.M. (UCD)
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Cornelia Yzer
Of Counsel
Berlin
Hla Yadanar Win
Associate
Yangon
Jonathan Wrede
Associate
Berlin
Frances Wolf
Senior Associate
Hamburg, Hanover
Dr Karina Wojtowicz
Senior Associate
Hanover
Jutta Wittler
Partner
Cologne
Susanne Winkler, LL.M.
Associate
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Artur Winkler
Counsel
Hamburg
Laura-Jane Williams
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Prof. Dr Herbert Willems
Partner
Essen
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Michael Rinke
Of Counsel
Cologne
Artur Winkler
Counsel
Hamburg
Sebastian Fedder
Partner
Hamburg
Nadine Ceruti
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Yelena Bonzel
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Yassine Bouzetit
Associate
Luxembourg
YAO Yuan / 姚远, LL.M. (JLU/Köln)
Foreign Legal Counsel
Cologne
Yann Spiegelhalter
Counsel
Luxembourg
Wolfgang Liebau
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Prof. Dr Hans-Georg Hahn
Of Counsel
Hanover
Volker von Alvensleben
Of Counsel
Hamburg
Volker Steimle
Partner
Cologne
Volkan Top
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Vivien Insa Seifert
Associate
Hanover
Victoria Schöll
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Verena Dimarch
Counsel
Munich
Vera Wechsler, LL.M. (Tulane)
Associate
Dusseldorf
Vanessa Meireles Schilling, LL.M. (Geneva MIDS)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Dr Valerie Blettenberg
Associate
Munich
Dr Ulrich Philippi
Partner
Stuttgart