Oliver Platt advises his domestic and international clients in the fields of real estate financing and restructuring in the real estate sector, loan transactions as well as real estate transactions. His other areas of expertise include commercial leases and the foundation and ongoing support of closed-end and open-end real estate funds, real estate private equity funds and external corporate counsel services.From January 2006 to May 2014, Oliver Platt worked as a founding partner and general counsel at Arminius Kapitalgesellschaft mbH. Today, he advises the Arminius Private Equity Real Estate Funds as an external general counsel. From 2004, he was responsible for establishing and managing the legal department as Director of Legal at Hudson Advisors Germany GmbH, the exclusive German servicing platform of Lone Star Funds. There, he was involved in the purchase and handling of the first German NPL loan portfolios. From 1999 to 2004, he was employed as a solicitor in the field of real estate transactions and real estate financing at the international law firms Lovells LLP and Dechert LLP. During his time at Lovells LLP, he advised the German units of the ING real estate funds on secondment. He also gathered further experience in the legal department of DGMG/DGI, the real estate fund platform of Deutsche Bank AG.