Profile
Simone Wijngaard is a shareholder in the Real Estate Practice. She divides her time between London and Amsterdam. She focuses on advising international investors and financers on investment holding structures, real estate investments, as well as hotel investments and operations.
Simone is a member of the RE-STRUC team, a multidisciplinary team within Greenberg Traurig comprising focus areas including real estate, restructuring, including WHOA (“Dutch Restructuring Scheme”), financing, conflict management, alternative dispute resolution, RICS accredited mediation services, regulatory and tax. Please visit our dedicated RE-STRUC page for more information.
Concentrations
- Real estate investments
- Project development
- Structuring
- Litigation
- Hospitality
Capabilities
Experience
- Assisting consortium AT Capital and 3W in the acquisition of shopping center Heuvel in Eindhoven.
- Assisting Arkéa REIM in the acquisition and sale and leasebacks of logistics assets and office buildings.
- Assisting Amundi in the disposal of the Allianz tower in Rotterdam.
- Assisting AEW in the acquisition of the HeadQuarter building in The Hague.
- Assisting AEW in the acquisition of the logistics distribution center de President in Hoofddorp.
- Assisting AEW in the sale and lease back of logistics properties in Amsterdam.
- Assisting Fidelity in the acquisition of several (cross-border) logistics assets.
- Assisting HighBrook Investors in the acquisition of several assets.
- Assisting InterGestion REIM in multiple acquisitions and sale and leasebacks of office and retail assets.
- Assisting MEAG in the acquisition of Strawinskyhuis in Amsterdam.
- Assisting MEAG in the acquisition of World Port Center in Rotterdam.
- Assisting MEAG in the acquisition of the Dutch Vault in Houten.
- Assisting MEAG in the acquisition of a logistic asset in Roermond.
- Assisting MEAG in the acquisition of the residential project Urban Villas in Amsterdam.
- Assisting W.P. Carey in various triple-net sale and lease-back transactions.
- Assisting Perial in multiple acquisitions of real estate assets and portfolios.
- Assisting Patron Capital in setting up the joint venture UrbanLinx and in the acquisition of light industrial assets to date.
- Assisting Remake Live in the sale and leaseback of a laboratory office in Amsterdam.
- Assisting InterGlobe in the acquisition of the Schiphol Sheraton hotel.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Wijngaard prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Legal 500 EMEA Guide, Real Estate, 2023-2025
- Listed, Chambers Europe, Up and Coming: Real Estate, 2023-2025
Credentials
- LL.M., Taxation, Nyenrode Business University
- LL.B., Amsterdam Open University
- LL.B., Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
- The Netherlands
- Dutch, Native
- English, Fluent
News, Insights & Events
Simone is a contributor to the GT Amsterdam Law Blog 