Deutsche Real Estate Funds (DREF) via its subsidiary Deutscher Studenten Wohn Bond I S.A. issues a bond of EUR 44 million for the financing of student residential housing. Teams led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, partner at the Cologne office for capital market law and by Dr. Peter Zimmermann for real estate law at the Düsseldorf office of the commercial law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, comprehensively advised Deutscher Studenten Wohn Bond I S.A.

Clifford Chance acted as New York counsel to Metro de Lima Linea 2 S.A., as concessionaire, and a consortium - formed by ACS-Iridium and Vialia-FCC of Spain; Salini Impregilo, Ansaldo STS and AnsaldoBreda of Italy; and Cosapi of Peru - as Sponsors, in the US$1.15 billion bond financing of the Line 2 of the Lima and Callao Metro project in Peru. The deal will partially finance Peru's very first underground metro, and its total cost of US$5.3 billion makes it one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever to be undertaken in Latin America. The offering closed on June 17, 2015.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Quanex Building Products, a US-headquartered supplier of window and door components, on the acquisition of HL Plastics, the UK's fastest-growing vinyl profile extruder. The transaction is valued at approximately US $145 million.

Real Estate experts from Burges Salmon have advised Skanska on the sale of 66 Queen Square in Bristol to Aviva Investors Property Trust. The sale exchanged on Friday 19 June 2015, with the Burges Salmon team advising on all legal aspects of the transaction.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised DBP on its A$245m bank debt refinancing transaction, provided by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., a long term banker to the company.

The funds raised will be applied to repay part of DBP’s A$565 million of medium term notes when they mature in September 2015.

The King & Wood Mallesons team was led by banking and finance partner Nicholas Creed, who was supported by solicitor Kirsten Young.

Empiric Student Property plc (Empiric) has completed its first corporate acquisition, at a value of £41.6 million, with support from international law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co.

The deal, which also marks Empiric's largest portfolio transaction to date, sees it acquire the freeholds on seven operational, direct-let, premium student properties - comprising a total of 502 rooms - from Urban Sleep.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Scape Student Living Australia (Scape) on the acquisition of two Australian properties for the purposes of developing student accommodation.

The properties, located at 212-222 La Trobe Street in Melbourne’s Central Business District and 188 Vulture Street and 53 Tribune Streets, Brisbane will be developed into modern student accommodation with 1500 rooms in Melbourne and 7000 rooms in Brisbane aimed at both international and domestic students.

Dentons real estate team has advised long-standing client Region Group of Companies on the acquisition of the prime office property Mercedes-Benz Plaza, located at Leningradskiy prospect 39A, Moscow.

Mercedes-Benz Plaza has a total area of 16,481.6 sq.m. and is a modern high quality Class A office building used as the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz in Russia. The building is also combined with Daimler’s car dealership for sales of Mercedes-Benz cars. The property has frontage on Leningradskiy prospect, one of the key traffic arteries in Moscow.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Prime Investors Capital Limited in relation to the acquisition of the long leasehold of Admiralty Arch from the UK Government, which completed ahead of schedule on 17 June.

Ramphastos Real Estate Investments has closed the EUR 85 million partial refinancing for the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven with Berlin Hyp AG acting as arranger and lender. The High Tech Campus Eindhoven houses more than 120 companies and institutes, and over 8,000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs working on developing future technologies and products.