This final feat was preceded by a construction phase lasting around four years. In 2021, the decision was made to leave the office building on Hamburg's Binnenalster, which had been occupied since the early 1970s, as it had reached the end of its life cycle. ‘We had the opportunity to plan a building from the ground up so that it would meet our exact specifications and needs,’ explains Christian Kühn, personally liable partner at Berenberg. The 50-metre-high office tower on Hamburg's Überseering offers around 22,000 square metres of space on 13 floors for Berenberg's 800 Hamburg employees, as well as a variety of special areas ranging from a spacious staff restaurant to conference and event spaces and green terraces with views over the city and the runways of Hamburg Airport.
‘While our employees at the Binnenalster were recently spread across several buildings due to our steady growth, we are now all reunited under one roof at our new headquarters,’ says Kühn happily. ‘This is good for team spirit and for the corporate culture.’ A conscious decision was also made to give every employee a fixed workspace. However, modern IT technology makes it possible to work from anywhere if necessary, which facilitates project work, for example.Berenberg is also taking a big step forward in terms of sustainability with its new building, which will achieve the DGNB Gold Standard for sustainable construction.
In addition to the new headquarters, a traditional villa on the Outer Alster will also be available for advising Hamburg clients from the beginning of next year. ‘This impressively underlines that we are both a traditional and a modern bank,’ says Klaus Naeve, member of the extended management board and head of Wealth and Asset Management. ‘We always want to be close to our customers – and in future there will be two contact points in Hamburg, in addition to the 17 other locations worldwide. And of course we also visit our customers at home.’
The new address is: Überseering 28, 22297 Hamburg
Berenberg was founded in 1590 and is now one of Europe's leading private banks, with divisions in wealth and asset management, investment banking and corporate banking. The Hamburg-based bank is managed by personally liable partners and has a strong presence in the financial centres of Frankfurt, London and New York.
Fotocredit: Foto exterior view: AUSSENBORDER Filmproduktion GmbH/ Berenberg; Foto interior view: ©Florian Läufer / Berenberg
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