International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised national developer and urban regeneration company St. Modwen on a promotion and development agreement for the Tortworth Estate’s Buckover Garden Village, a planned 3,000-home exemplar new community in South Gloucestershire.
An international CMS team of German, Dutch and Luxembourg lawyers led by Partner Dr. Holger Kraft (CMS Germany, Energy) and Cecilia van der Weijden (CMS The Netherlands, Energy) has provided Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, with comprehensive legal advice with regards to the acquisition (on behalf of its clients) of a substantial interest in the Dutch company owning the project rights for the offshore windfarm 'Borssele III/IV'.
Dentons has advised investment management firms CR Holding GmbH and Värde Partners on the successful sale of six retail parks to Cologne-based REWE Group. The retail parks are part of the Saturn-Portfolio and are located in the western and southern part of Germany. Through this transaction, leading German food retailer REWE Group plans to increase its rate of store ownership.
Shoosmiths has advised on the management buy-out (MBO) of The Quarr Group, a leading provider of building maintenance and construction, contract cleaning and contract catering.
The Quarr Group has been acquired by its management team, who included Brian Warren, Nelson Williams and Simon Ingram; the Managing Directors of the Quarr Group's subsidiaries: Nviro, Pabulum and Mountjoy, respectively.
Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised Swire Properties Limited on the first green bond issue by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Swire Properties MTN Financing Limited, of US$500 million 3.50% Guaranteed Notes due 2028. The Notes were issued under Swire Properties' US$4 billion Medium Term Note Programme. The Notes are guaranteed by Swire Properties Limited and are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Ashurst advised Aberdeen Asset Management Deutschland AG (Aberdeen) on the purchase of housing project "LEO - Urban Living" from Kondor Wessels Holding GmbH (Kondor Wessels). 171 apartments with a total of 9,480 square meters of living space are to be built on the approximately 4,700 square meters of land in Berlin, Löwenberger Straße 1, 3, 5. In addition, two commercial units totalling 157 square meters and 40 underground parking spaces are planned. Completion of the project is scheduled for spring 2020.
DLA Piper has advised the Munich-based investment manager, Catella Real Estate AG, on its acquisition of the mixed-use property “Moosach Center” located in Moosach, Munich, for Catella BAVARIA, the open-end mutual real estate AIF. Completed in 2010, the fully let property located directly by Moosach station has a rentable floor space of approximately 7,100 square metres, and is used as office, hotel and retail space.
Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG has acquired Bellevue-Bau AG from Anlagestiftung fenaco LANDI.
LONDON (December 22, 2017) – Morrison & Foerster is advising Global Logistic Properties Limited (GLP), the leading global provider of modern logistics facilities, in connection with the formation of two new European funds which increase the size of GLP’s fund management platform by US$4 billion (€3.4 billion) to US$43 billion. These funds were formed in conjunction with GLP’s acquisition of Gazeley, a premier developer, investor and manager of European logistics warehouses and distribution parks.
CMS has advised a consortium consisting of Aspen Group and a number of other Israeli institutional parties in the purchase of a real estate portfolio. The consortium has acquired a property portfolio consisting of 8 (office) buildings from APF International and Ares Management. The total transaction value amounted to approx. € 115 million. The portfolio has a total lettable floor area of approximately 63,000 m² and generates approximately 9.5 million euro in annual rental income with an occupancy rate of 99%.