Gladiator Leasing, a subsidiary of Erste Group Bank AG, purchased an aeroplane owned by the American company Aircraft 28038 LLC (a subsidiary of Aircastle) - a global company involved in purchasing, leasing and sales of commercial aeroplanes. Enter Air, a Polish charter airline, remains the operator of the aeroplane. The airline has four permanent bases of operation: Chopin airport in Warsaw, the airport in Pyrzowice, the airport in Poznan and the airport in wroclaw, and leases a total of 14 Boeings, including the aeroplane belonging to Gladiator Leasing.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised BWSC Power Corporation Limited (BPCL), a joint venture between Danish power plant developer BWSC and Danish fund Copenhagen Infrastructure I (CII), in relation to the £170 million acquisition and development of the 44.2MW straw fuelled Snetterton biomass plant in Norfolk, UK.

Partners Group, a leading private markets investment manager, acquired the "Helvetica I" portfolio on behalf of its clients in a secondary transaction. Helvetica Property Investors AG will continue to act as asset manager of the commercial real estate portfolio.

Bär & Karrer acted as legal advisor to Partners Group. The team included Corrado Rampini (M&A, Real Estate), Christoph Neeracher, Philippe Seiler, Beda Kaufmann and Sabrina Schalcher (all M&A).

Houthoff Buruma advised Kroonenberg Groep on the € 117,5 million acquisition of Kalvertoren, one of the Amsterdam city centre most well-known shopping centres, from Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. The shopping centre offers 13.000 m^2 of retail space that is currently rented to 22 shops and 2 restaurants.
Houthoff Buruma team included: Marnix Aarts

FPS advised the Belgian company REIT Aedifica on the acquisition of three special purpose companies in Luxembourg that own eight nursing homes in Germany. With this acquisition, the German portfolio of Aedifica now comprises 13 nursing homes worth more than €100 million.

Eversheds has advised the Raisio group on the EUR 88.4 million acquisition of the Benecol business in the UK, Ireland and Belgium from the Johnson & Johnson group.

In the UK and Ireland, Benecol is the market leader in cholesterol-lowering functional foods. The acquisition is estimated to increase Raisio’s EBIT by some 9 million euros annually.

Allens has advised property fund manager CorVal Partners Limited and family office RF Capital in their purchase of six poultry processing facilities across Australia from Inghams Property Management Pty Ltd.

CorVal and RF Capital purchased the poultry processing facilities in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia for approximately $100 million and will lease the facilities back to Inghams.

The leases on the properties will run to 2034.

The Allens team on the matter was led by Partner Victoria Holthouse.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Huaneng Power International Inc., one of China's largest listed power producers, on its acquisition of equity interests in ten power plants in China for a total consideration of US$1.19 billion.  Beijing-based Huaneng Power is the listed unit of the mainland’s largest power producer, China Huaneng Group. The company is mainly engaged in developing, constructing, operating and managing large-scale power plants throughout China.

Allianz Capital Partners has acquired the Sattravallen wind park in the municipality of Kristinehamn from Sättravallen Vindkraft AB. The wind park will comprise of 16 Vestas V126-3.3 MW turbines with a total capacity of 52.8 MW and a total height of maximum 186 meters per turbine. Sveaskog is the owner of the land where the wind park is build.

Clifford Chance advised Atrium European Real Estate Limited on the acquisition of a property company holding the AFI Palac Pardubice shopping centre in the regional capital city of Pardubice in the Czech Republic.

Clifford Chance's role was to advise the buyer on the acquisition transaction which is in line with Atrium’s strategy to buy prime income-producing shopping centres in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. As a result of the AFI Palac deal, now almost 20 percent of Atrium’s total income-producing assets are located in the Czech Republic.