With a team led by Dr. Armin Freiherr von Grießenbeck, Partner at its Munich office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Realogis Real Estate on the acquisition of two newly developed logistics facilities in Waiblingen near Stuttgart and in Langenau near Ulm. The seller of the logistics property portfolio of some 31,500 square meters is Habacker Holding. The purchase price was not disclosed.
 

A fund managed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management-Real Global Assets has sold the landmark GARDEN TOWER office building in Frankfurt’s central banking district with
approximately 27,513 sqm to a fund managed by Tristan Capital Partners and co-investor Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors. Main tenant of the building is Société Générale alongside other financial institutions.

P+P Pöllath + Partners provided tax advice to Deutsche Wohnen AG on the purchase of the "Harald" portfolio from Patrizia Immobilien AG. The portfolio includes German and Dutch companies and real estate assets with a total of 13,600 housing units. The transaction volume amounts to approximately EUR 1.1 billion.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised Hsin Chong Construction Group (the “Company”) on a public issuance (in a professional investors market) of US dollars convertible bonds in the principal amount of US$100 million in November 2015.

Hsin Chong Construction Group is one of the largest construction and property development companies based in Hong Kong.

Simmons & Simmons acted for the Company in this transaction which also included an upsize option for the issuance of an additional US$30 million in convertible bonds.

Setterwalls has assisted Jämtvind AB in its joint venture agreement with Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China State Power Investment Corporation (“SPIC”) which is one of the largest state-owned electricity producers in the People’s Republic of China. The joint venture company will be established in Jämtland after the joint venture agreement has been approved by SPIC and the Chinese government and it will focus on developing renewable energy, i.a. wind power.

Setterwalls’ team consisted of
Johan Hallén (partner in charge)
and Junli Shu.

Setterwalls has assisted NCC in the sale of the office property Mässhallen 2 located in Hyllie, Malmö to Castellum through its subsidiary Briggen. The building is constructed of eight floors and includes 7100 sqm of offices and 200 sqm store/restaurant. Completion of the transaction occurs when the property is completed, which is estimated to April 2016.

Setterwalls' team has been led by Linda Jönsjö

Travers Smith LLP has advised its long standing AIM-listed client Breedon Aggregates Limited, on the £336 million acquisition of Hope Construction Materials Limited from Cortolina Investments.

Breedon is the largest independent aggregates business in the UK, employing more than 1,200 people in England, Wales and Scotland. The company supplies an extensive range of products and services to the construction and building sectors and operates 53 quarries, 26 asphalt plants and 59 ready-mixed concrete plants.

London – Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, has advised on three major transactions which all closed on the same day.

London – Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, has advised on three major transactions which all closed on the same day.

In March 2015 Vonovia SE, a German DAX 30 company formerly operating as Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE, took a controlling majority of GAGFAH S.A., the parent company of the GAGFAH Group.

In recent months, Watson Farley & Williams (”WFW“) has comprehensively advised Vonovia SE on all employment law aspects of the integration of the Deutsche Annington and GAGFAH subgroups into the new Vonovia group.