Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP advised Amundi Real Estate on the acquisition of INK Hotel Amsterdam, located in the heart of Amsterdam.

INK Hotel Amsterdam, MGallery by Sofitel, which Principal purchased in 2012 in a sale-and-leaseback agreement with Accor Hotel, it was sold to Amundi Real Estate’s OPCI fund (a French real estate investment scheme) in December 2018.

This 4-star hotel featuring classic Dutch architecture offers 149 rooms, a bar, restaurant, business meeting facility, and a fitness centre.

Frankfurt am Main, 14 February 2019 – The international law firm BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised a subsidiary of Frankfurter Volksbank   Germany's second largest Volksbank   on the acquisition of the 'Voltapark' project in Bockenheim, one of Frankfurt's city districts, by way of a forward deal. The seller has engaged BFL Investment to take over the entire project development as general contractor for the building project, and to manage the sales process. The parties have agreed to keep the transaction volume confidential.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Goldman Sachs, as financial advisor to Credito Fondiario and structuring agent to Elliott, on their successful bid to acquire a portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs) from Banco BPM for a nominal amount of €7.8 billion, and establishing an NPL servicing platform to manage the acquired portfolio and 80 percent of any new NPLs originated by Banco BPM in the next ten years.

Baker McKenzie Geneva and Luxembourg successfully advised the Sun Create Richly Group, based in Hong Kong, in the completion of their share deal acquisition of a commercial centre in the lake Geneva region of Switzerland.

The project team provided comprehensive and complex legal advice in a number of areas, including due diligence, negotiations, cross-border corporate and tax structuring, banking & finance advice on acquisition finance, as well as real estate expertise.
 

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised an international consortium comprising Commerz Real AG (“Commerz Real”), Ingka Group and German investment companies KGAL Group (“KGAL”) and wpd invest GmbH (“wpd invest”) on the acquisition of an 80% stake in the Veja Mate offshore wind farm. Together with the existing project financing taken up by Veja Mate offshore wind farm, the transaction volume for the Veja Mate project totals approx. €2.3bn.

Ashurst advised the European real estate investor Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (Warburg-HIH Invest) on the acquisition of a commercial property in Bonn.

The fully let business object with a total rental space of 1,908 sqm will be integrated into the open special AIF 'Warburg-HIH Perspektive Einzelhandel: Fokus Geschäftshäuser' ('Warburg-HIH perspective retail: focus business objects'). Main tenant is the restaurant franchise L’Osteria, further space is predominantly let to medical practices and offices.