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Kerstin Block
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Dr. Kerstin Block, LL.B.

Rechtsanwältin | Head of Banking & Finance, Germany

Languages
  • German
  • English

Kerstin Block advises German and international banks, leasing companies and investors on financing and leasing transactions. Her expertise covers a wide variety of financings with a particular focus on domestic and cross-border acquisition, project and asset financings. She has specific sector expertise in infrastructure and energy projects as well as rolling stock financings and is CMS Global Head "Energy & Infrastructure Finance.

Kerstin joined the banking & finance team of CMS in Hamburg as an associate in 2009 and became a partner in 2017. She has worked on secondment with two German banks in Frankfurt and Hanover and a Japanese bank in London.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Germany, 2025
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    "Kerstin Block has extensive expertise in infrastructure project financings. She often acts for banking consortiums as well as project developers, with particular strength in the renewable energy world."
    Chambers Germany, 2025
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    „Dr. Kerstin Block: Absolut herausragende Anwältin. Neben der Fähigkeit, auch komplexe - genauer: hochkomplexe - Dokumente in kurzer Zeit zu bearbeiten, hat sie auch tiefgehende Kenntnisse der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhänge. Zudem ist sie bei Verhandlungen sehr angenehm gegenüber Vertragspartnern, bringt aber trotzdem die Punkte der Mandanten durch.“, Mandant
    The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2025
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    „CMS besticht durch die routinierte Beratung von Banken und Unternehmen bei der Finanzierung und Refinanzierung von Infrastruktur- und Energieprojekten, darunter zuletzt insbesondere Photovoltaikanlagen, Wasserkraftwerke und Windparks, während man mit Kerstin Block auch über eine ausgewiesene Expertin im Asset Finance-Bereich verfügt; während des Berichtszeitraums wurde diese insbesondere bei Finanzierungen im Schienenbereich eingesetzt. Ebenso erfahren ist man in der Begleitung von verstärkt nachgefragten nachhaltigkeitsgebundenen Darlehen.
    The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2025
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2024
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    "Ms Dr. Block and Dr. Riede are characterized by proactive work and a pleasant negotiating style with the usual high level of expertise. This ensures that everything is processed within the specified time frame and with a very good (negotiation) result for the client.", client
    The Legal 500 EMEA, 2023

Publications

  • Das angemessene Umtauschverhältnis im Verschmelzungsrecht, Peter Lang Verlag 2011

Education

  • PhD at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
  • 2007 - 2009: Trainee lawyer at Hamburg Higher Regional Court
  • Law studies at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, and the University of Cambridge
  • 1999 - 2001: Banking apprenticeship (German Bankkauffrau)
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