Sascha Franke
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Sascha Franke

Associate

Email

sascha.franke@aoshearman.com

Phone

+49 69 2648 5536

Offices

Frankfurt

V-CARD
Sascha has a wide range of experience advising on syndicated lending, leveraged finance, real estate finance and on large international restructuring transactions and distressed debt situations.
 

He focuses on cross-border real estate finance. Sascha advises national and international banks and financial institutions, investors and corporates on all aspects of banking and credit law arising in national and cross-border transactions. 

He is fluent in German, English and Spanish. 

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • Quintain Limited on the refinancing of its senior and mezzanine mixed-use investment and development facilities at Wembley Park, with a global financial institution as senior lender and Cheyne Capital as mezzanine lender.
  • Advising lenders in connection with the project financing of the Hanseatic Energy Hub, which is being developed as Germany's first land-based terminal for liquefied gases.
  • Advice to a syndicate of banks relating to A1 Mobil, the operator of the toll motorway section between Bremen and Hamburg, in connection with a consensual restructuring.
  • The Steinhoff Europe AG creditors’ committee on the restructuring of the Steinhoff group.

Qualifications

Admissions

Germany, 2025 (Rechtsanwalt)

England and Wales, 2021 (Solicitor) 

Ireland, 2021 (Solicitor) 

Registered European Lawyer, Germany, 2021 

 

Academic

LPC, Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, University of Law, 2020 

GDL, Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, 2018 

LL.M., European Economic Law, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), 2015 

LL.B., Economic Law, University of Osnabrück, 2014 

 

Languages

English, German

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.