King & Spalding has advised BEOS AG on the sale of the special fund BEOS Corporate Real Estate Fund Germany I (CREFG I) which was set up as open-ended real estate specialized fund by Capital Investment Company IntReal and Asset Manager BEOS AG in 2010. The fund portfolio comprises 21 mixed-used commercial properties with lettable space of 565.000 square meters located at the top sites of Germany's most attractive regions.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised CTP, a leading commercial real estate developer and manager of business parks in Central & Eastern Europe, on the EU450 million sale of a Czech logistics portfolio to Deka Immobilien, the largest German institutional investor.

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised Ruukki Romania, a member of the Swedish group SSAB, in relation to the sale of its factory in Bolintin-Deal to Peikko Group Corporation, a Finnish company supplier of slim floor structures and connection technology for precast.

Ruukki is a producer of metallic roofing sheets for residential buildings and metallic solutions for commercial and industrial buildings. The factory near Bucharest which was built in 2007 has a total surface of 30,000 sqm and it also comprises a piece of land of 60,000 sqm.

Cleary Gottlieb represented SGI Frontier Capital (SGI) in the sale of its investment platform to Cerberus Capital Management LP (Cerberus).

SGI is a leading private equity firm focused on frontier markets in Asia and Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, SGI has an extensive track record of direct investment in frontier markets, including Ethiopia, Georgia, and Mongolia.

Cerberus is a global leader in alternative investing with more than $35 billion in assets across complementary credit, private equity, and real estate strategies.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised KKR, one of the largest US investment funds in the world, on the sale of around 30 assets representing a surface area of just over 86,000m² – comprising offices and telephone centers, mainly occupied by the Orange group –, to private clients grouped into a “real estate club deal” by Eternam, the real estate subsidiary of the Cyrus group. The transaction, completed on October 25, 2018, involved an amount in excess of EUR 100m.

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has advised Pearson, the digital learning company, on the sale of One Southwark Bridge to M&G Real Estate for £115m. The two parties have exchanged contracts with a target completion date by the end of 2018.

The building, which has been home to the Financial Times since 1989, will continue to be occupied by the paper until it returns to its former headquarters at Bracken House next year.