The portfolio consists of ten prime logistic properties in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, which Ness, Risan & Partners and Wilfast Förvaltning AB will continue to manage.

Elgiganten, DHL, Tata Steel, Ahlsell and Prime Cargo are among the tenants and the average remaining lease term is ten years. Elgiganten's Nordic hub in Jönköping and DHL's terminal in Gothenburg are part of the portfolio.

DLA Piper has advised Ballast Nedam N.V. on the sale of its offshore activities, which included the vessel Svanen, to a subsidiary of the dredging company Van Oord N.V. Ballast Nedam N.V.’s offshore activities consisted of engineering, procurement, construction and installation services for the construction of offshore wind farms.

The sale of the offshore activities took on the form of an auction process, with the transaction being completed under strict timeframes, in line with the announcement of Ballast Nedam N.V’s divestment programme.

Rabo Real Estate Group ("Rabo"), the real estate division of Rabobank with headquarters in the Netherlands, has sold the PalaisQuartier in Frankfurt am Main to funds managed by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. ECE is participating in the acquisition with a 10% stake and will manage the "MyZeil" shopping centre. The PalaisQuartier in the centre of Frankfurt consists in addition to the "MyZeil" shopping centre of the "NEXTOWER" office building, the "Jumeirah Frankfurt" hotel, the

DLA Piper has advised EMMVEE Solar Systems Private Ltd. (“EMMVEE”), an Indian producer of monocrystalline and polycrystalline photovoltaic modules, on the sale of Solarpark Bronkow Luckaitztal GmbH (“Solarpark Bronkow”) to the regional energy provider RheinEnergie AG. The solar park located near Berlin has an installed capacity of 11.4 MWp.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Cinven and The Gondola Group on the sale of the ASK Italian and Zizzi restaurant brands to Bridgepoint.

The transaction represents Cinven’s exit from its investment in Gondola, following the sales of the Byron restaurant brand in 2013 and of the PizzaExpress brand earlier this year. Freshfields has advised Cinven and Gondola on all three transactions. .

Total consideration for the transaction was £250 million.

The Scottish-owned property and investment manager Aberdeen has sold, through the Danish fund Aberdeen Property Fund Denmark P/S, eleven commercial properties to ATP and Industriens Pension for DKK 513.5 million.

The properties, previously owned by TDC, are situated across Denmark. Nine of the eleven properties will continue to be leased to TDC on long-term contracts. The portfolio includes a total area of approx. 52,000 square metres and is primarily concentrated in the areas of Greater Copenhagen, Odense and major cities in Jutland.

Noerr acted for Caleus Capital Investors in a transaction in which three residential complexes with a total of 1,800 units in Berlin were sold by the pan-European real estate fund EPISO advised by Caleus and Tristan Capital Partners. The purchasers are state companies.

Dentons’ Global Real Estate team acted as legal counsel to AFI Europe, a leading real estate development and investment company operating in Europe, on the sale of AFI Palace Pardubice shopping center to Atrium European Real Estate. The Transaction value was €83 million.

Hogan Lovells has advised DIF on the disposal of a portfolio of 16 operational Public Private Partnership (PPP) assets to Aberdeen Asset Management. It marks the largest private trade of a portfolio of PPP equity assets ever to close in the Global PPP market.

Castellum’s subsidiary Fastighets AB Corallen has divested a real property portfolio comprising 53 properties in southern Sweden to Hemfosa Fastigheter for approximately SEK 1.9 billion. The transaction also includes a transfer by Castellum subsidiary Eklandia Fastigheter AB of a real property in Gothenburg to the same buyer. In connection with the divestment, all the employees in Corallen’s property management organization in Värnamo and Växjö will transfer to Hemfosa Fastigheter.