De Brauw has served as lead counsel to Bouwfonds Investment Management on the disposal of a large part of its business.
Client name
Bouwfonds Investment Management B.V., a subsidiary of Rabo Real Estate Group
Other parties involved
Primevest Capital Partners Holding B.V., Commonwealth Investments B.V. (sponsor of Purchaser)
Nature of transaction
We represented the seller, Helsinki University Properties Ltd (Helsingin Yliopistokiinteistöt Oy), in the sale of three real estates located in Helsinki to Hemsö, a Swedish real estate investor. The real estates are leased to Uniarts Helsinki and the total area of the buildings in the real estates is 25.000 m2.
CMS has advised the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on the sale of its exclusive media rights to Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) for exploitation throughout the Indian subcontinent. This five-year agreement gives SPN the rights to both televise and digitally broadcast men’s and women’s international matches, including Test matches, T20 Internationals and ODIs, played in England, for the 2018-2022 period.
Dentons' Real Estate team in Warsaw has advised Skanska on the sale of the Nowa Fabryczna office building in Lodz, Poland to Niam for EU52 million.
Opened in October 2017, the seven-storey Nowa Fabryczna offers over 21,500 sq. m. gross leasable area and 210 parking spaces leased to tenants such as Fujitsu, Whirlpool, Cybercom and McCormick.
CMS Budapest has advised the Belgian real estate developer Atenor on the sale of Building D of the Vaci Greens complex to a Hungarian private fund. The 15,650 sqm building was already 60% pre-leased to high-profile international tenants, such as Unilever, Aon and Atos.
The sale to BBAM Limited Partnership values AAB’s leasing business at an enterprise valuation of $2.85 billion
Baker McKenzie, along with other law firms, assisted Ideal Standard in the transfer of its business in Roccasecca, Italy, safeguarding the site’s activities and employment.
The company, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality residential, commercial and healthcare bathroom solutions, signed an agreement with Saxa Grestone S.r.l. for the sale of its activities in Roccasecca, allowing business continuity for the factory and its 279 employees.
BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised Media Group Medweth on the sale of the monthly women's magazine “JOLIE” and also on the sale of the digital offerings “Jolie.de” and “Mädchen.de” to Media Group KLAMBT. The Asset Purchase Agreement was concluded and signed on 28 February 2018 but the transaction is still subject to clearance by the competent antitrust authorities of Germany and Austria.
With this sale Jolie, one of the most prominent and successful women's lifestyle magazines, changes its publishing house.
BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised audio marketing provider SpotCom on the sale of the online audio portfolio. The purchaser is RMSi, the digital marketing subsidiary of the national radio marketing company RMS. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transaction volume.
Baker McKenzie advised Mundipharma GmbH on its sale of their Limburg based production plant to Fidelio Healthcare Holding GmbH. Fidelio Healthcare will continue the Mundipharma business in Limburg and take over most of the employees. Plans are to produce its own products as well as medicine by order of other companies at this location.