-- Mario Leissner, until now the general counsel and head of legal and tax of Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH (OIK), in Wiesbaden, Germany. Leissner specializes in fund structuring, regulatory law, real estate and corporate transactions and financing work. He studied law at the University of Potsdam and received training in tax law at the Tax Law School in Freiburg. Leissner is fluent in German, English, French and Russian and conversant in Italian and Spanish. -- Michael Prinz zu Löwenstein, until now a partner with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, in Frankfurt. Active in the fields of general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance and real estate, he has worked with King & Spalding for more than 20 years and is well known to the firm's lawyers. Earlier, he was with Stegemann, Sieveking & Lutteroth in Hamburg, Germany, and was retained by the government of Germany as legal adviser to the office of the president of the Republic of Niger. He studied law and history at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn.Accompanying Leissner at this time in the move from OIK's legal office are Alexandra Weis and Nicole Bittlingmayer, who are joining King & Spalding as associates. King & Spalding expects to continue its legal services for longtime client OIK and retain its good working relationship with the Heuking Kühn firm. "A Frankfurt presence extends our platform for providing King & Spalding clients with sophisticated real estate capital markets work throughout Europe, in addition to our capabilities in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East," Scott Arnold said. "We anticipate that the Frankfurt office also will work closely with the firm's transactional teams in London and Dubai." King & Spalding's real estate practice group provides experienced and sophisticated advice on a complete range of commercial real estate transactions. Its real estate capital markets practice -- one of the U.S. leaders in this field -- has earned a reputation for its creative structuring of mergers and acquisitions and complex equity and debt financing transactions. About King & Spalding King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London, New York, Riyadh (affiliated office) and Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and in a Corporate Counsel survey in September 2007 was among the top firms representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional information, visit www.kslaw.com.
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