DLA Piper has advised Pfizer on the US$635 million acquisition of commercial vaccines from Baxter, with the transaction closing successfully on 1 December 2014.

The deal included the meningitis prevention vaccine NeisVac-C and the well-known vaccine FSME-IMMUN/Ticovac. Furthermore, Pfizer acquired the production facility in Austria, where the two vaccines are manufactured.

The transaction was led by DLA Piper partners Christoph Mager and Elisabeth Stichmann, who also advised Pfizer already during the structuring of the acquisition.

Clifford Chance has advised Real I.S. Grundvermögen, a real estate fund belonging to Real I.S., on the acquisition of the RegerHof office and retail centre in Munich from Bayerische Hausbau. The parties have agreed not to disclose any details of the purchase price.

The property in central Munich comprises around 10,500 m² of office space across six floors and around 2,800 m² of retail space on the ground floor. The retail tenants are Rossmann, Tengelmann and a bakery outlet.

Kungsleden AB has acquired Kista One and three additional office properties, located in Kista Science City, from Areim. The property portfolio has an underlying property value of just over SEK 2 billion. The total leasable area amounts to 73,000 square metres.

Kungsleden was advised by Mannheimer Swartling in the transaction. Klas Wennström handled the assignment, primarily assisted by Jenny Karlsson.

Dentons announced today that it has advised Denver based private equity firm KSL Capital Partners, LLC, dedicated to investing in travel and leisure businesses, on its acquisition of VUR, a leading hotel and lifestyle company comprising 25 properties throughout the UK with a further three under construction.

DLA Piper has advised ASX-listed Mirvac Group on its acquisition of a major retail centre and marina in Sydney.

Birkenhead Point Shopping Centre, Drummoyne, and an adjoining car parking facility and marina, has been purchased by the group for a total consideration of AU$310 million. The asset was purchased from Abacus Property Group & Kirsh Group.

Sunshine Insurance Group has completed the acquisition of Sheraton on the Park, Sydney, Australia at AU$463mln and established a long-term strategic partnership with Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., the US-based hotel manager.

The shareholders of MP Holding GmbH sold their mechanized distribution center in Leimen as part of a share deal to Hamburg-based Aquila Capital in mid-November. A team led by Dr. Michael Dröge, Partner at the Hamburg office of commercial law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised Aquila on the transaction.
 

Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised Industrielle Werke Basel (“IWB”) on the acquisition of the “Les Champs aux Chats” wind farm in the département Pas-de-Calais in northern France. The wind farm was acquired from the German project developer OSTWIND International (“OSTWIND”).

WFW advised the Swiss energy provider IWB on the acquisition of all shares in the wind farm's operating company regarding all relevant legal and tax aspects in Germany and France.

Van Oord has reached an agreement with Ballast Nedam on the acquisition of Ballast Nedam Offshore's activities and assets, for an undisclosed sum. Houthoff Buruma is advising Van Oord on this matter. The acquisition is part of Van Oord’s strategy to expand its Offshore Wind Projects business unit. The transaction is expected to be finalized before the end of 2014 subject to the customary conditions, including obtaining approval from the competition authorities.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Eddie Meijer, Maurits de Haan, Gerrit Oosterhuis, Maarten Minnaard

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine advised a leading diversified agricultural company in relation to all Ukrainian law aspects of the potential acquisition of one of top-20 local agricultural businesses.

The Firm in Ukraine provided full transactional support, including legal due diligence, advice on the Ukrainian competition law issues related to the transaction as well as general advice on multiple Ukrainian law matters.