Sidley advised Ever Sunshine Lifestyle Services Group Limited (HKEX: 1995) as the issuer’s Hong Kong and United States Counsel in its approximately HK$620 million (approximately US$79 million) global offering on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Ever Sunshine Lifestyle Services Group Limited is a reputable and fast-growing property management service provider in China.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised asset management and investment group Tikehau Capital on its acquisition of ACE Management, a French asset management company dedicated to the aerospace, defence and cybersecurity sectors.
The transaction was finalized on December 19, 2018, having been announced in October, following approval from the French financial markets regulator Autorité des marchés financiers and the relevant competition authorities.
Warsaw--Dentons' Real Estate team in Warsaw has advised Hines Global REIT on the sale of a portfolio of five logistics properties in Poland. The transaction value was approximately EU140 million. The assets were acquired by Gemini Poland Holdcos, affiliates of Blackstone Group.
The portfolio, sold by Hines, consists of two warehouses in Warsaw, one in Wroclaw and two in the Silesia region. All the properties are fully leased to tenants, which include ThyssenKrupp, LG Electronics, Johnson & Johnson and Toshiba.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised BBGI SICAV S.A. (BBGI) on their acquisition of equity interests in three public-private partnership projects in the Netherlands. BBGI is a UK-listed infrastructure investment company.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Amundi Transition Energétique (“ATE”) on the negotiation and signing of its partnership agreement with Dalkia to support the development of renewable heating networks in France.
This agreement will offer local authorities innovative and sustainable solutions by combining Dalkia’s know-how, and an alternative financial structuring based on Amundi’s expertise in infrastructure investment.
Dechert LLP advised Eurovia, a VINCI Group subsidiary and global leader in transport infrastructure and urban development, in connection with the purchase of the Plants & Paving division of The Lane Construction Company, a subsidiary of Salini Impregilo Group.
With the acquisition of this division, which represents approximately 2,000 people, with operations in 10 U.S. states on the eastern seaboard and in the state of Texas, and with annual revenue of more than US$600 million, Eurovia becomes one of the U.S. East Coast’s leaders in transport infrastructure.
The Ukrainian office of Wolf Theiss advised rent24, the leading international co-working and co-living solutions company headquartered in Germany, on its entering the Ukrainian market and a joint venture with a Ukrainian pioneer in the co-working solutions business – the Chasopys Group.
MinterEllison has acted for SPH REIT Management Pte. Ltd. in its capacity as the Manager of SPH REIT (SPH REIT) and several entities managed by the asset management division of Moelis Australia Limited (“Moelis Australia Asset Management”) on its joint venture acquisition of an 100% interest in Figtree Grove Shopping Centre in NSW.
Figtree Grove Shopping Centre is an established sub-regional shopping centre in the Illawarra region south of Sydney, NSW, and the acquisition enhances SPH REIT's portfolio through geographical diversification.
MinterEllison has advised ASX-listed Cromwell Property Group (Cromwell, ASX:CMW) on its 2 for 13 accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer.
Despite a demanding timeframe, the MinterEllison team worked very closely with Cromwell around the clock in order to complete the transaction before Christmas.
DLA Piper has assisted NewCap Holding A/S, which is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S, in selling the majority of the Group’s Swedish assets.
The transaction includes the sale of the asset-management activities, operated through Monyx Asset Management and Nordic Fund Services S.A. in Luxembourg, as well as the sale of the majority of the Group’s consultancy and insurance-mediation activities, operated in subsidiaries in Sweden under the “Hjerta” Brand.