Roschier represented Genesta Property Nordic Finland Oy, a Nordic property fund specializing in commercial real estate in the Nordic countries, in the EUR 19.6 million acquisition of the office property Fabianinkatu 9, located in the city center of Helsinki and used as Metso's head office, from Metso Corporation, a publicly traded (Nasdaq Helsinki) global industrial company with net sales of approximately EUR 2.9 billion in 2015.

Roschier represented Hemfosa Fastigheter AB (publ), a listed (Nasdaq Stockholm) property company owning and managing properties valued at more than EUR 3 billion, in the EUR 55 million acquisition of two community service properties, encompassing approximately 37,000 sqm leasable area, from NV Property Fund I Ky, a Finnish property fund, whose investors included the pension insurance company Varma, the life assurance company Nordea Livförsäkring Finland and the Finnish State Pension Fund.

Advising the company John Paul in connection with the sale of 78.67% of its shares to AccorHotels. The remaining stake being kept by David Amsellem, the founder of the company, who will remain as CEO and keep 21.33% of the share.

Dentons advised on the €2.4 billion sale of P3 Logistic Parks to GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. P3 Logistic Parks owns 163 warehouses in 62 locations across nine countries - making this the largest real estate deal in Europe in 2016.

Dentons has advised GLL Real Estate Partners, a Munich-based international real estate investor and asset manager, on the acquisition of Váci 1, a landmark retail and office building in downtown Budapest for a separate account mandate from Bayerische Versorgungskammer. Horizon Development, a Hungarian real estate development, property management, leasing and marketing company, sold a 100 percent ownership stake in the Váci 1 building.

First UK REIT offering pure-play exposure to social housing

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Civitas Social Housing PLC (Civitas) on its successful £350 million IPO. Civitas is the UK’s first real estate investment trust offering pure-play exposure to social housing to float on the London Stock Exchange.

Civitas will invest in built social housing across England and Wales. It plans to invest in general needs, supported and extra care social housing.

Cenkos Securities plc acted as sole sponsor and financial advisor.

Schoenherr has advised Erste Group Immorent AG ("Erste Group Immorent") on the sale of Immorent Jilska s.r.o. ("Immorent Jilska"), which owns the landmark office building ENTERPRISE, to Starship Enterprise a.s. ("Starship Enterprise"). The purchase price totalled approx. CZK 3bln (over EUR 110m), and the closing took place on 14 November 2016.   

Clifford Chance advised an investment fund of French asset manager Amundi Real Estate on the acquisition of two hotel projects from UBM Development AG. The two hotels form part of AccorHotels Group and are scheduled for opening in summer 2017. They were sold at a fixed price by way of a forward deal. The purchase of the turnkey hotels is subject to completion of the usual Closing conditions and will become effective upon hand-over of the hotels in summer 2017.

Noerr has advised the Gegenbauer Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in RGM Holding from Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH. The takeover, which spanned five European jurisdictions, was coordinated and supported by a Noerr team led by partners Dr Tibor Fedke and Professor Christian Pleister.

Setterwalls has assisted KF Fastigheter in its sale of three retail development properties in Tumba, Motala and Trelleborg. The development properties, with a total area of 18.400 square metres , were acquired by NREP.

Setterwalls team was led by Niklas Svantesson and assisted by Girion Blomdahl and Dan Örnfjäder