Acting as PRC legal adviser, our Shenzhen Office advised Deson Construction International Holdings Limited (stock code: 8268.HK) to be successfully listed on the Growth Enterprises Market of Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 8 January 2015.
Dentons’ Real Estate team acted as legal counsel to Skanska Property Poland on the preliminary sale of its office building Dominikanski in Wroclaw, Poland, to Union Investment, the Hamburg-based real estate investment manager.
Dentons’ Real Estate team acted as legal counsel to Skanska Property Poland on the preliminary sale of its office building Dominikanski in Wroclaw, Poland, to Union Investment, the Hamburg-based real estate investment manager.
Macfarlanes has acted for Legal & General Property ("LGP") on the acquisition of the Bishopsgate Long Term Property Fund Unit Trust and its portfolio of 24 commercial properties located across the UK, which it purchased for around £370m.
The portfolio will be held through a Jersey limited partnership, with Dutch pension fund manager PGGM and Legal & General Capital acting as limited partners, and LGP acting as the fund manager.
DLA Piper has acted for Knightsbridge Student Housing on its £28 million acquisition of a student housing scheme in Southampton from BY Developments Limited, who controlled the Site under a contract with the Site Owner, Southampton City Council.
Situated on St Mary’s Road, the scheme will include 467 student flats as well as 3,100 square feet of retail space and is set for completion in September 2016.
Royal IHC has acquired SAS Offshore, which is based in Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands. SAS Offshore is specialised in designing and manufacturing high quality deck equipment for the offshore oil and gas market. This acquisition enables IHC to further secure its position as a supplier of reliable integrated offshore systems and integrated vessels in this sector.
Stibbe successfully defended Ballast Nedam N.V. in legal proceedings against the province of Groningen. The province claimed appr. €20 million from Ballast Nedam and other construction companies, alleging that the companies had acted in breach of an agreement made when they withdrew from a residential development project in Groningen. In a judgment dated 17 December 2014, the Noord-Nederland Court dismissed all the province’s claims.
Team: Gertjan Boekraad, Branda Katan
A Dacheng team composed of senior partner Zhang Hong, partner Chen Hui and associate Chen Fenfen advised Beijing North Star Industrial Co., Ltd. (A-stock code: 601588, H-stock code: 00588) on the public offering of no more than RMB2.5bn worth of corporate bonds, following the approval from CSRC on December 9, 2014.
NCTM Studio Legale Associato has assisted Poligrafici Real Estate S.r.l. in the sale of the real estate property of the La Nazione, located in Florence, Italy,
to the fund named Pacific 1 managed by BNP Paribas Real Estate Investments Management.
The total value of the deal amounted to 36.295 million euro, creating a consolidated capital gain, net of tax, of 14 million euro.
White & Case LLP has advised Unibail-Rodamco, the commercial property company, on the long term leasing (ten years) by L’Oréal SA of 12 office floors and one floor dedicated to a restaurant (approximately 30,000 square metres) in So Ouest Plaza tower in Levallois-Perret, Paris.
White & Case recently advised Unibail-Rodamco on the long term lease agreement with Axa Investment Managers for the first 18 floors of Majunga tower, located in La Défense, Paris.
Guangzhou Pubang Landscape Architecture Co., Ltd. (“Pubang Landscape”, stock code: 002663) successfully offered 84,730,000 privately placed A-shares at the price of RMB13.01 per share. As of November 20, 2014, the private placement had brought a total of RMB1,102,337,300.00 in proceeds, and after deducting underwriting and other relevant costs, left RMB1,057,271,211.29. A Dacheng team composed of senior partner Shen Linping, associates Wang Hongsheng, Li Yi and Zhou Sisi issued attorneys’ legal opinion and advised Pubang Landscape on the private placement.