Kolja (Mac) K.

Transaction Manager

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2024 - May 2025
7 months
Germany

Transaction Manager

Cosimo Investment Group GmbH

  • Ensuring all required documents are in place for buying and selling projects and financings, and evaluating their contents
  • Documenting all existing and required documents
  • Reviewing existing documents and conditions for red flags, such as potential or actual risks like expired building permits, easements, contaminants, etc.
  • Managing project partners to obtain needed documents and offers (sellers, potential buyers, internal due diligence team, architects, surveyors, etc.)
  • Supporting investors with their technical due diligence
  • Defining and gathering required information, land records, appraisals, and offers
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 4 months
Germany

Technical Asset Management

Forte Capital GmbH

  • Project: Complete renovation (including KfW, ESG, and fire protection) of 8 residential high-rise buildings in Dortmund
  • Renovation of stripped-out vacant space according to KfW 55 EE
  • Technical assessment and definition of necessary work
  • Tendering selected construction and specialist engineering services, including collecting offers and making award recommendations
  • Project management, coordination of all construction participants, and organizing and moderating weekly project meetings
  • Reporting in English with controller and investor

Tasks before construction start:

  • Identifying technical problem areas (insufficient building structure, fire protection deficiencies, asbestos contamination, planning deviations)
  • Defining and recommending a sensible renovation goal (scope of work, finish standards, local rent index, budget)
  • Defining tender objectives for architects and specialist planners
  • Managing and coordinating external technical project participants
  • Project documentation
  • Supporting contract negotiations and final contract drafting with the general contractor

Tasks after construction start:

  • Ongoing collection of offers and commissioning of specialist engineers and experts
  • Managing all technical participants: construction companies, planners, experts
  • Coordinating amendments to the existing building permit and adjustments to the fire protection concept
  • Managing and monitoring the construction schedule
  • Making decisions and coordinating arising technical renovation issues
  • Ensuring approval of all execution decisions by energy consultants and fire protection experts
Jul 2019 - May 2023
3 years 11 months
Germany
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Freelance expert for technical real estate management and valuation

  • Technical due diligence and valuation of residential and commercial properties, including analysis of building defects, MEP weaknesses, fire protection, and traffic safety
  • Assessing renovation needs, investment costs, and value-add potential
  • Building law assessment and identification of development options
  • Technical asset management for existing properties: project definition (costs, deadlines, quality) and project management
  • Coordination with authorities (e.g. heritage conservation, elevator systems)
  • Selection and management of external planners and specialists
  • Development and renovation of a vacant multifamily house in Stahnsdorf (design, tendering, and site management for service phases 5-9)
  • Small-scale assignments in renovation, valuation, and consulting
  • Part-time parental leave during the COVID-19 pandemic
Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
3 years 10 months
Germany

Technical Asset Management

Bato Group Real Estate Investments GmbH

  • Projects: new build and existing residential buildings in Berlin
  • Reporting to investors on renovation and construction projects as well as acquisitions
  • Independently reviewing existing and acquisition projects, including technical assessment and evaluation of development potential
  • Evaluating different product types and target groups for rentals and sales, and developing usage concepts
  • Defining project objectives for construction projects (schedule, costs, quality)
  • Service phases 1–8, focusing on requirements analysis, design, and planning permission
  • Negotiations with authorities: area exceedances, preventing permit refusal, elevators, heritage protection
  • Selecting external project participants, contract negotiations, and award preparation
  • Project management
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 3 months
Germany

Residential Acquisition & Product Development

Ziegert Immobilienconsulting

  • Developer acquisition
  • Land acquisition: identifying suitable properties, direct contact, and negotiation with owners
  • Potential analyses
  • Product development: floor plans and optimization, buildability assessment
Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
11 months
Germany

Renovation of a multi-family house in Trebbin

Own Project

  • Assessment of market, location, development potential, and purchase price
  • Technical analysis
  • Purchase negotiations
  • Renovation and conversion, including permit planning and project control
Jun 2012 - Oct 2013
1 year 5 months
Germany

Real estate development of townhouses in Berlin

Own Project

  • Project preparation for townhouse construction
  • Location and market analysis, as well as feasibility studies of potential sites
  • Project planning and cost estimation
Sep 2010 - May 2013
2 years 9 months
Germany

Sales of photovoltaic systems

Ever Energy Group and GEWIP

  • Acquiring customers (households and medium-sized businesses)
  • On-site and telephone acquisition
Aug 2009 - Sep 2010
1 year 2 months
Germany

Sales of single-family homes

Town & Country House

  • Acquiring customers: households and land acquisition
  • Acquisition of builders and sale of houses to be built
Oct 2006 - Oct 2008
2 years 1 month

Planning and project management

Horan Keogan Ryan Architects

  • Main project: Clancy Quay Dublin, new build of 92,000 m² with residential, office, and retail spaces
  • Coordination of design services by internal and external architects and engineers
  • Factual review of statutory and contractual requirements
Feb 2005 - Sep 2006
1 year 8 months

Planning and Product Development

Patrick Rooney & Associates Architects

  • Project: Letterkenny Town Centre, shopping center with housing
  • Preliminary planning, design, detailed planning and floor plan optimizations
  • Permit planning including fire protection and accessibility

Summary

  • Independent work style
  • Results-oriented communication and negotiation
  • Proactive teamwork

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
Polish
Elementary

Education

FH Potsdam

Diploma in Architecture and Urban Planning · Architecture and Urban Planning · Potsdam, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Car driver's license

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