Lars Borchardt

Lars is a member of the Environmental, Planning & Regulatory Practice Area. He advises national and international companies as well as public authorities on all aspects of admministrative law.

His focus lays on planning and approval procedures and the project development of real estate and industrial plants under public law. He received scholarship since 2008 from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (SDW) and is a member of the alumni association.

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Carrière

Since 2020	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 – 2020	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 – 2016	Coordinator of the Göttinger Examenskurs

2012 – 2014	Research Assistant with teaching activity, Chair of Public and International Law, Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus, Georg–August–University Göttingen
2011 – 2012	Research Assistant, IWRM–MoMo project, Mongolia
2007 – 2012	Student Assistant, Chair of Public and International Law, Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus, Georg–August–University Göttingen

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Formation

2017	Admitted to the Hamburg Bar Association
2017	Second state examination
2015 – 2017	Trainee solicitor, Oberlandesgericht Celle, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, an international law firm in the practice area of environmental law, Oberlandesgericht Celle

2012	First state examination
2009	Legal studies, Universitetet i Oslo
2007 – 2012	Legal studies, Georg–August–Universität Göttingen

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Langues étrangères

English

Expertise

Secteurs Hôtels et loisirs Immobilier

Experience

Acquisition of the first German “onshore wind+storage”-project and respective PPA	Taylor Wessing advised CEE Group on a special renewable energy transaction. CEE Group acquired the only "onshore wind+storage" project in Germany to date from juwi including a PPA contract with MVV Trading GmbH. juwi was awarded the contract for this innovative project in the first nationwide innovation tender by the German Federal Network Agency in September 2020. The electricity is reimbursed with a fixed market bonus as well as with a so-called Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that juwi developed jointly with MVV Trading GmbH. Hamburg-based CEE Group has acquired project and PPA.
Providing regulatory advice to REWE Group relating to their cross border acquisition of Lekkerland Group	REWE Group on provision of cross border regulatory advice relating to the acquisition of Lekkerland, a multinational wholesale and distributor business. The team advised on all regulatory issues including permits, EHS, dangerous goods and product related requirements such as the Tobacco Directive. The team also provided an in depth analysis of all affected jurisdictions (Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland).
Purchase of an under construction office complex near Berlin	Savills Investment Management (Savills IM) on the purchase of the "NUBIS" office complex in the Adlershof Science and Technology Park in Berlin, some of which is still under construction. The international real estate investment firm Savills IM has acquired the properties for its Savills IM European Commercial Fund (ECF). The transaction is part of an asset deal with Project Immobilien Gewerbe AG. The ensemble consists of three independent multi-tenant buildings with modern and flexible office space. A total of around 17,200 square metres of lettable space are spread across five to six floors. Each house has its own underground car park with a total of 86 parking spaces. The first building has already been completed and occupied by the tenants. The other two properties will be transferred to the Fund's portfolio when it is successively completed in the first half of 2019. In total, long-term leases have already been signed for more than 90 percent of the space. The main tenants are VBU Verkehrsbau Union Berlin GmbH (Eurovia) and TECHEM Energy Services GmbH.

Württembergische Krankenversicherung on the acquisition of a hotel building in Darmstadt

Württembergische Krankenversicherung on their purchase of a planned Holiday-Inn-Express-Hotel in Darmstadt. The seller of the building, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the main railway station, is the project developer Merlin Capital. According to the Hamburg developer, the investment sum for the property, which has nearly 7,300 square meters of usable space, amounts to €14m. The parent company of the health insurer, Wüstenrot & Württembergische, named Tristar GmbH as the long-term tenant of the house with 157 rooms. According to the landlord, construction on the site is imminent, with completion scheduled for spring 2020.

Acquisition of chemical production branch located in the UK on REACH Regulation and the impact of BREXIT

A major challenge of this international cross-border transaction was compliance under REACH regulation of both the UK-located chemical production; the supply chain for chemicals from outside the EU and outside the UK; and the crossborder distribution of chemical products outside the EU and outside the UK in particular post Brexit. Regulatory structuring of the cross-border upscaling of the production was essential. Our team secured the development of the client’s new business by sophisticated seamless cross-border regulatory advice from both the UK and Germany. Our longstanding experience with the multiple national and international regulatory bodies involved and our proactive approach to upcoming changes to the market allowed us to guide the client succesfully through the challenges posed by Brexit.

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