Stephenson Harwood, Osborne Clarke and Clyde & Co have advised their respective clients, the Spanish train manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), Eversholt Rail and Arriva Rail North Limited on the recently-announced €600,000,000 (c.£490,000,000) procurement of two substantial new fleets of CAF-built Civity UK rolling stock units that will serve the Northern passenger rail franchise.  The deal also involves CAF providing technical support and spares supply services to the new fleets.

King & Wood Mallesons advised DTZ Investors France, acting for a French major institutional client, on the acquisition of the companies that hold a commercial property unit in Strasbourg, from the private group B&O.

This property unit of 16,000 square meters is composed of two buildings: the first one is rented to the Printemps department store and the second one includes the stores H&M and Uniqlo.

The KWM team was composed of Real Estate partner Jean-Louis Martin, with associates David Bensimon and Quentin Jobard.

Noerr has advised the real estate investor Henley on the purchase of a property portfolio from the industrial services provider Ferrostaal. Through its subsidiary Henley360, the British investor purchased several properties in Essen. The purchase price is approx. €50m.

The purchased properties include the Ferrostaal headquarters as well as other adjacent office buildings and one residential building. The entire usable area of the portfolio is approx. 35,000 square metres.

With a team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit, the commercial law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Swiss financial investor Aetna Partners GmbH on acquiring the assets of insolvent WAFA Kunststofftechnik GmbH, based in Augsburg, from insolvency administrator Joachim Exner. The acquisition was carried out jointly with German automotive supplier Demmel AG.
 

Squire Patton Boggs has advised the Luxembourg real estate fund Optimum Evolution Fund SIF on the acquisition of three real estate assets in Berlin. In addition to the well-known Kempinski Plaza on Uhlandstraße, two residential and commercial properties located on Brandenburgische Straße and Berliner Straße were acquired from a private investor.

Ashurst has advised Abertis Infraestructuras S.A. on the €948 million acquisition from Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) of the 50% interest in Chile's Autopista Central toll road that Abertis does not already own.

DLA Piper has advised KGAL group on the acquisition of a commercial property in Munich, known as MK5. The property is in a central location on Theresienwiese and forms part of an inner-city new development area on the former trade fair site of Munich City Council. The property is the eighth investment for the Immobilien-Spezial alternative investment fund.

Hong Kong - Paul Hastings announced today that the firm represented Hong Kong-listed Evergrande Real Estate Group Limited (“Evergrande”), China’s second largest property developer by sales, in  its US$1.6 billion acquisition of Pioneer Time Investment Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with limited liability, from Chinese Estates Holdings Limited. The principal asset of the target is a Grade A office and commercial building in Hong Kong, in the core area between Admiralty and Wan Chai.

In the summer of 2014 we advised Strabag SE, one of Europe's largest construction groups, on the acquisition of the one-third of the share capital it did not already own in Societatea Companiilor Hoteliere Grand SRL, a Romanian company which owns the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel. The hotel opened in November 2000 and is the largest in Bucharest.  The seller was Bank of Cyprus and the price was €95 million. Strabag has more than 73,000 employees and its activities span all areas of the construction industry and cover the entire construction value chain.

Advising Aviva Real Estate Investors and Algonquin in connection with the creation of Primotel Europe, a hotel investment fund, and with the first acquisitions of hotels by Primotel Europe.

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