Christian focuses his practice on real estate, finance, cross-border deals, and economic development. He has significant experience counseling clients on complex commercial real estate transactions, such as acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leasing, greenfield and brownfield development, construction, and financing, as well as investments in manufacturing facilities, apartments, land, cross-border, and economic incentive transactions. He handles office, retail, warehouse, and industrial leasing for tenant and landlord clients. Christian also represents clients in connection with the acquisition, disposition, leasing, development, and financing of commercial real estate across a variety of asset classes, including, in office, retail, hospitality, education, and health care real estate segments of commercial real estate.
As a native German, he frequently counsels German speaking clients as well as Swiss and Austrian clients expanding into the U.S. He also advises U.S. clients with business ventures in Germany and the European Union. Christian serves as Honorary Consul of Germany in Tennessee.