Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Scira Offshore Energy Limited, a joint venture company owned equally by Statoil ASA and Startkraft AS, on the £193 million disposal of the transmission assets of the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal wind farm. The transmission assets have been acquired by the Blue Transmission consortium, comprising of Macquarie Capital, Barclays Infrastructure Funds, Mitsubishi Corporation and Frontier Power.

The French Minister of Industrial Renewal, Arnaud Montebourg, was present in the Dentons Paris office on Thursday July 11, 2013 for negotiations on the German aluminum group Trimet’s purchase of the Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Castelsarrasin industrial sites, owned by the Rio Tinto Alcan company. The meeting mentioned in AFP press releases as being held “in the center of Paris” took place at Dentons.

Clifford Chance advised Investa Immobiliengruppe on the sale of the initial phase of construction of "Schwabinger Carré" in Munich. The section of the building was acquired from Catella Real Estate.

Dentons has advised Aviva and its co-investors on the sale of the remaining assets at PaddingtonCentral to British Land for £470 million. Dentons acted for all the Sellers led by Aviva Investors, advisors to Aviva as the majority owner.

The transaction involved the disposal of three specialist real estate funds containing circa 500,000 square feet of offices and retail/leisure space, a 206 bedroom hotel and two development sites with consent for a further 355,000 square feet of offices.

Linklaters has advised the Dutch insolvency administrator Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn of AKD in relation to the sale of ten shopping centres. Purchasers of these commercial properties, predominantly located in eastern Germany, are subsidiaries of the US financial investor Cerberus Capital Management.

National business law firm, DWF, has advised Peakside Capital (“Peakside” / the “Company”), a specialist European real estate private equity firm, on the sale of 80 Hammersmith, a 41,548 sq ft redeveloped Grade A office building in Hammersmith, West London to Britannia Invest A/S for in excess of £20 million.

Slaughter and May advised Chesapeake and its private equity owners, Oaktree Capital Management and Irving Place Capital, on the disposal to the Carlyle Group of the Chesapeake paperboard packaging business, being one of the largest global suppliers of value-added paper-based packaging products and services.

Slaughter and May advised on this cross-border disposal in conjunction with local counsel in Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland and the United States.

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Clifford Chance advised the investment fund Curzon Capital Partner III (CCP III), whose advisors are Tristan Capital Partners, and their local joint venture partner Pamera Asset Management on the sale of office building "BBW Bürohaus Bockenheimer Warte" in Frankfurt am Main. The real property was acquired a by consortium of Aurec Capital and two Israeli insurance companies.

The office building complex was constructed in 1998 and consists of two buildings with a total surface of approx. 35,000 sqm. Anchor tenants are Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank) and KfW.

Ashurst advised financial services company Wells Fargo Bank International ("Wells Fargo") in connection with the sale of a portfolio of nine shopping centres out of insolvency to affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management.

Herbert Smith Freehills advised GE Energy Financial Services Inc and Continental Wind Partners (CWP), the developers of the Boco Rock wind farm in New South Wales (Boco Rock) in relation to the project’s development phase, equity sale by CWP and project financing.