Macfarlanes has advised Derwent London on its £165.0m sale of The Copyright Building 30 Berners Street W1 to Union Investment Real Estate GmbH.

Stibbe advises Retail Estates, a Belgium investor in retail estate located in the periphery, on the acquisition of five retail parks in the Netherlands with a total investment value of EUR 75.6 million.

The retail parks are located in Apeldoorn, Middelburg, Veenendaal, Roosendaal and Alphen aan den Rijn and consist of 51 retail spaces, including tenants such as Beter Bed, Kwantum, Leen Bakker, Trendhopper, Auping, Gamma and Carpetright.

Hogan Lovells has acted for M&G Real Estate, one of the UK’s largest real estate property investors, in relation to the sale of Omnicom’s South Bank HQ at Bankside 2 and 3, SE1, to Deutsche Asset Management for around £310m.

The transaction was led by partner and UK head of Real Estate, Daniel Norris, and senior associate Graham Cutts.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (“BLP”) have advised the co-founders and management of The Office Group (“TOG”), the London based design-led flexible workspace provider on the sale of a majority interest to Blackstone and on their ongoing investment in partnership with Blackstone. The deal puts an enterprise value on TOG of approximately £500m, and primes the company, that was founded in 2003, for further accelerated expansion.

Ashurst advised residential property portfolio developer Noratis AG as transaction counsel on its successful initial public offering in the scale segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

The gross issue proceeds together with the over-allotment option amounted to €18.75 million. The company plans to use the proceeds of the capital increase primarily for the further financing of its growth, providing it with more flexibility to take advantage of acquisition opportunities for real estate.

Hannes Snellman acted as counsel to Skandia Fastigheter in its first acquisition in Finland. The acquired office property with a lettable area of approx. 14,400 sqm located in CBD Helsinki was acquired from a fund managed by TRIUVA.
 
Our core team in Helsinki and Stockholm comprised Tapio Teräkivi, Heikki Vesikansa, Safa Mahmoudi, Antti Antikainen, Harri Vehviläinen, Heini Salonen, Matleena Pälve and Amela Balijaj.

Osborne Clarke has advised Galliford Try on the purchase of Phase 4, Bow Enterprise Park from Workspace Group.

Based in East London in a prime location adjacent to Devons Road DLR, this is the fourth and final phase of the mixed-use redevelopment that will comprise 130 new residential units to be retained by Galliford Try and a new 40,000 sq ft business centre to be constructed by Galliford Try for Workspace as part of the project.

Vinge advises Håfam Properties AB in connection with the disposal of the properties 2:106, Sätofta 6:23, Sätofta 6:88, Långstorp 1:34, Långstorp 1:35, Bosjökloster 1:753 and Bosjökloster 1:756 through a disposal of a property owning company.

Vinge's team consisted of Kristian Ford together with Anna Edström and Karolina Tjärnberg.

DLA Piper represented PECO Real Estate Partners in the formation of PREP Property Group, LLC (PREP), a strategic joint venture with Almanac Realty Investors, LLC. Almanac has committed to invest up to $300 million into PREP, a retail focused real estate company, to continue the investment strategies of PECO Real Estate Partners.

Based in Park City, Utah, PREP is a vertically-integrated real estate company that focuses on building retailer relationships through its experienced acquisitions, leasing, management, and development teams.

Finalcad entered with Eiffage into a strategic partnership with a view to accelerating the digital transformation of the building sites of the French construction and concessions group.

As part of an innovation process, the purpose of the partnership is to monitor and control each building site thanks to mobile apps accessible from a tablet and to computerize the various tasks concerned.