Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised leading Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group on the acquisition of the supermarket business currently operating under the O'KEY brand, one of the largest retail chains in Russia.
Jones Day is advising Coronado Coal LLC in the acquisition of the Curragh coal mine in central Queensland, Australia, from Wesfarmers Limited for AUD$700 million (US$547.4 million). Coronado
Coal LLC has existing operations in Virginia and West Virginia.
The Brussels office of leading international law firm Clifford Chance has been advising Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht and its shareholders on the sale of the Anderlecht football club to Alychlo following a process involving multiple bidders.
The team is led by Niek De Pauw, corporate partner, and Wim Aerts, counsel, at Clifford Chance Brussels.
We have been a trusted adviser to RSCA for the past several years and regularly assist them with corporate, commercial, banking & finance and employment law matters.
Baker McKenzie has advised CASINO, a long-standing player in the French retail market and one of the global leaders in food trade, in the creation of the joint venture CD SUPPLY INNOVATION by CASINO and DIA.
This new entity will gather the two partners’ retail brand expertise as well as their experience in logistics and supply management. It will be in charge of purchasing retail brand and low-price goods for the two groups, however only for a part of their suppliers and while preserving their commercial and operational independence.
Moscow—The Sever-2 class A logistics complex is located in the Solnechnogorsky district, 35 kilometers north of the MKAD on Leningradskoye Shosse, or on the new M-11 toll road. The complex’s anchor tenants are OBI, O’key, Major, Miratorg and R-Pharm.
CMS has advised a consortium consisting of Aspen Group and a number of other Israeli institutional parties in the purchase of a real estate portfolio. The consortium has acquired a property portfolio consisting of 8 (office) buildings from APF International and Ares Management. The total transaction value amounted to approx. € 115 million. The portfolio has a total lettable floor area of approximately 63,000 m² and generates approximately 9.5 million euro in annual rental income with an occupancy rate of 99%.
Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG has acquired Bellevue-Bau AG from Anlagestiftung fenaco LANDI.
DLA Piper has advised a newly established fund named Enhanced Real Estate Series APAC II - China Outlets SCSp known as COMF, managed by TH Real Estate, on the fund's acquisition of a pipeline of designer outlet malls under the "Florentia Village" brand in China, closing on two malls in Wuqing and Shanghai to start. The fund has equity commitments of US$750 million, with a total capacity of US$1 billion with gearing, and is backed by Allianz, Gaw Capital Partners, TIAA General Account, a Frankfurt-based German asset management company and others.
DLA Piper has advised international investor consortium BFC Investment on its acquisition of Championship football club Barnsley FC, from Oakwell Holdings Limited.
The consortium is headed by Chien Lee and Pacific Media Group, led by Paul Conway and Grace Hung. Also investing in the consortium are Billy Beane and Neerav Parekh. Previous owners the Cryne family will retain an interest, continuing their 14-year association with the Club.
Hamburg – The Swiss utility ewz, the public utility company of the City of Zurich, is further expanding its renewable energy portfolio by acquiring the two onshore wind farm projects "Autremencourt" and "Vihiersois" from Hamburg-based Nordex SE.