Castren & Snellman assisted Renor Oy in the sale of production and office premises to Sagax, a Swedish listed real estate investment company. The property is located in the Aviapolis area in Vantaa, along the Ring Road III. The leasable area of the building is approximately 12,000 square meters and it has been fully leased to a long-term tenant.

The Castrén & Snellman team was led by counsel Rami Laatsalo, who was assisted by associate Arimo Leppä. The responsible partner for the assignment was Mika Ilveskero.

De Brauw, as lead counsel, has assisted Klépierre in divesting a EUR 770 million portfolio of nine shopping centres located in the Netherlands to Wereldhave. The portfolio includes convenience and district shopping centres mostly located in cities outside the Randstad.

Klépierre is a leading European shopping centre property company that combines development, rental, property, and asset management skills. Its portfolio was valued at EUR 21 billion on 31 December 2014.

Booking.com has concluded a long-term lease for 13,500 m2 in the Red and White section of Piet Hein Buildings along the Piet Heinkade quay in Amsterdam. Piet Hein Buildings is located next to the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam on the southern bank of the River IJ. Current lessees include Teva, Corbion, Taxand, Boer & Croon, Havenbedrijf Amsterdam and Hay Group.

Booking.com, a subsidiary of the Priceline Group, is global leader in online accommodation reservations.

The NautaDutilh team consisted of David van Dijk, Jorieke van Strijen and Frank Spraakman.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Federation Centres on the sale of two of its New South Wales shopping centres for a combined total of A$100 million.

Both centres – Goulburn Plaza in Goulburn and Westside Plaza in Broken Hill - involved the sale of fully tenanted shopping centres, as well as adjacent vacant land at Westside Plaza.

Swiss Prime Site has announced that it has agreed to acquire SENIOcare Group from the private equity investment group Waterland. The acquisition is, among other things, subject to the approval by the Swiss Competition Commission.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised Sino-German Ecopark Handel-und Beratungs GmbH (Sino German Ecopark), based in Munich, on the voluntary public takeover of German Brokers AG. The shares of German Brokers AG are admitted for trading at the General Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and are also traded over the counter (Freiverkehr) at the Berlin, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart stock exchanges.

Eversheds is advising Rowsley Ltd, a publicly-listed real estate company based in Singapore (“Rowsley”), on its investment in a £200 million (S$440 million) landmark property project in central Manchester with former Manchester United football stars Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs.

White & Case LLP has advised leading Chinese residential property developer, Greentown China Holdings Limited, on its solicitation of consents from holders of its RMB2.5 billion 5.625 percent Senior Notes due 2016, US$700 million 8.5 percent Senior Notes due 2018 and US$500 million 8.0 percent Senior Notes due 2019.

DLA Piper has advised Schroders Real Estate on the acquisition of the former Bosch headquarters in Stuttgart. The seller is Balandis Real Estate. The overall investment volume of the transaction is in excess of 100 million euros.

DLA Piper has advised PORR AG (“PORR”) on the placement of its first borrower’s note loan worth 185.5 million euros. The issue consists of four tranches with terms of three and five years – optionally with fixed or variable interest rates. The placement did not exclusively occur in the European region, but also to a large extent in Asia.