Charles Russell Speechlys recently teamed with Ward Yates to advise Lum Chang Holdings on its £52.6m corporate acquisition of 130 Wood Street, in the City of London, from Land Securities.

This is the second deal Charles Russell Speechlys and Ward Yates have undertaken for the Singapore listed construction and development conglomerate this year, having advised Lum Chang on the sale of 42-60 Kensington High Street - retail, residential and office accommodation totalling 88,000 sq ft - to Urban Retail V in February.

Trowers & Hamlins have advised new client Dar Al Mal, an alternative asset management and financial advisory firm based in Dubai, UAE, on its acquisition of a newly completed student accommodation property in Newcastle.

Dar Al Mal acted as a financial advisor on the structuring and debt arranging for the acquisition of the property on behalf of its clients.

Irwin Mitchell's real estate team has advised Redevco, the European investment manager of high street retail properties, on the acquisition of the former Hanningtons Estate in Brighton. The price was over £50 million and the seller was West Register, part of The Royal Bank of Scotland.
 

Sheffield-based IC Innovations, a leading designer, supplier and distributor of distinctive homewares, gifts and seasonal products, is to purchase historic three-storey premises in Sheffield and hire additional staff following £1.265 million in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

Noerr has advised Solar Power, Inc. on the purchase of the assets of the insolvent Cologne-based Energiebau Solar Power GmbH. The system provider and photovoltaic wholesaler Solar Power GmbH is thus taken over by the strategic investor Solar Power, Inc., an international project developer with sites in all relevant markets.

The Macfarlanes real estate team has advised Stanhope and the purchaser on the acquisition and sublet of the BBC’s Media Village site in West London which was undertaken in conjunction with Mitsui Fudosan UK Ltd (Mitsui Fudosan). The site will now be known as White City Place.

Allen & Overy LLP has advised UniInstitutional Infrastruktur SICAV-SIF, a renewable energy fund managed by Union Investment, on the acquisition of the Lilbourne wind farm, located at England’s east coast near Rugby.
 
Vendor was the Germany based Energiekontor AG which develops and manages wind farms in a number of European countries. The Lilbourne wind farm consists of five MM100 turbines from Senvion with a total capacity of 10 MW.

Castren & Snellman advised the OP-Vuokratuotto hedge fund, which is a part of the OP Group, in its purchase of a 1,200-residence real estate portfolio from Ilmarinen. This is one of the largest real estate portfolio transactions in Finland in the 21st century. The deal was closed on 2 June 2015.

DLA Piper has advised Arab investor The Olayan Group and Asian hotelier Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (Mandarin Oriental) on the acquisition of the share capital of the company holding the Ritz Hotel in Madrid for  €130 million. The sellers were English operator Belmond (formerly Orient Express) and Omega Capital.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Denham Capital, Qualitas Venture Capital and founder shareholders on the sale of Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), a leading global developer of solar power plants, to Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ).