Dr. Ann Margret Herzhoff
LL.M.

Real Estate Law

Experience

Ann Margret Herzhoff specialises in real estate management law. She advises and represents national and international enterprises and investors on, among other things, the purchase and sale of properties and real estate (portfolios), as well as on matters of tenancy law. In particular, her activities include the legal examination of real estate transactions and the drafting of real estate purchase agreements and commercial lease agreements. She also handles matters concerning public building law and private energy management law. Ann Margret Herzhoff is member of the French Desk.

Education

Ann Margret Herzhoff has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2021. She studied law at the Universities of Cologne and Copenhagen and completed a post-graduate Master‘s course (LL.M.). Ann Margret Herzhoff holds a scholarship from the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.

During her studies, she worked at, among other things, the German Federal Network Agency in Bonn and as a research assistant at Hogan Lovells International LLP in Frankfurt am Main. Ann Margret Herzhoff’s legal internship included work for Lenz und Johlen Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB in the field of private building law as well as in the legal department of Bayer AG in the Law, Patents, Compliance sector.

Before joining Oppenhoff, Ann Margret Herzhoff was a research assistant at the Institute for Labour and Economic Law headed by Prof. Dr. Martin Henssler. In 2022 she received her doctorate from the University of Cologne with a thesis on board liability for innovation decisions.

Ann Margret Herzhoff is a member of the Working Group for Administrative Law (ARGE Verwaltungsrecht) in the German Bar Association (DAV) and in Frauen in der Immobilienwirtschaft e.V., an association for women in the real estate industry.

Dr. Ann Margret Herzhoff
LL.M.

AssociateRechtsanwältin

Languages
German, English, French

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 430
M +49 175 4004 866

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Articles and Essays

Von Eisenbahnromantik zu ESG [From railway romanticism to ESG]
SustainableValue Q4 dated 11 November 2024, p. 17-20 ( in collaboration with Marvin Rochner)

International Comparative Legal Guide – Real Estate 2024, Chapter Germany
dated 21 December 2023, 19th Edition (in collaboration with Dr. Stefanie Minzemay)

Bauleiter: Zwischen Leitungsbefugnis und Verantwortlichkeit [Construction manager: between managerial authority and responsibility]
immobilienmanager dated 04 November 2022 (in collaboration with Marvin Rochner)

Gesetzesentwurf zur Beschleunigung von verwaltungsgerichtlichen Verfahren im Infrastrukturbereich – Notwendige prozessuale Verschlankung oder Beschneidung von Rechtsschutzmöglichkeiten? [Draft law on the acceleration of administrative court proceedings in the infrastructure sector - necessary procedural streamlining or curtailment of legal remedies?]
EnK Aktuell dated 22 September 2022, Issue 3/2022

Schlüsselfunktion auf der Baustelle – der Bauleiter [Key function on the construction site – the construction manager]
Brownfield24 dated August 2022 (in collaboration with Marvin Rochner)

International Comparative Legal Guide - Real Estate 2022, Chapter Germany
ICGL.com, 21th Edition (in collaboration with Stefanie Minzenmay)

Umnutzung statt Umzug: Wenn aus Büros Wohnungen werden [Conversion instead of moving: When offices become flats]
Legal Tribune Online dated 13 October 2021 (in collaboration with Marc Alexander Häger)

Duldungsansprüche des Bauherrn gegen den Nachbarn bei grenznahen Baumaßnahmen [Developer’s claims to toleration by neighbours in case of construction measures bordering the neighbours]
BauR 2020, p. 712-721 (in collaboration with Thomas Elsner)

Books and Legal Commentaries

Vorstandshaftung bei Innovationsentscheidungen [Directors’ liability for innovative decisions]
Innovation – balancing liability basis and managerial obligation in a globalised, competition-driven market environment, Nomos Verlag, Band 212, 2023

Vertragsschluss durch Realofferte bei der Grundversorgung [Contract conclusion for basic supplies through so-called “Realofferte” (offer aimed at purchase contract conclusion and simultaneous in rem transfer of title)]
Energierecht. Fälle und Lösungen, Baumgart, Max [ed.], pp. 35-45

Ersatzversorgung bei Energielieferverträgen [Substitute supply in energy supply contracts]
Energierecht. Fälle und Lösungen, Baumgart, Max [ed.], pp. 46-52

Verjährung und Verzug im Energieprivatrecht [Statute of limitation and default in private energy law]
Energierecht. Fälle und Lösungen, Baumgart, Max [ed.], pp. 53-61

Preisanpassung im Energievertragsrecht [Price adjustment in energy contract law]
Energierecht. Fälle und Lösungen, Baumgart, Max [ed.], pp. 62-80