Gide has advised Casino Group on the final disposal of a portfolio of 67 Monoprix real estate assets, for an overall amount of 742 million euros.

Following the synallagmatic agreements signed on 28 September and 17 October 2018, Casino Group has just announced it has finalised, with groups Generali and AG2R La Mondiale, the disposal operations on respectively 53 and 14 Monoprix real estate assets. After deducting registration fees, the net worth of these transactions is 742 million euros, for an annual rent payable by Casino of 35.4 million euros.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Storengy Deutschland GmbH (“Storengy”) on the sale of its stake in the gas storage facility in Breitbrunn/Eggstätt in Bavaria to Slovakia’s NAFTA a.s (“NAFTA”). In parallel, NAFTA also acquired stakes in the Breitbrunn/Eggstätt, Inzenham-West and Wolfersberg underground gas storage facilities from DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG.

On September 28, 2018, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (85% interest and mine operator) ("SMM") and Sumitomo Corp. (15% interest) ("SC") completed the US$260 million sale of the Pogo Gold Mine in Alaska to Northern Star Resources.

Sumitomo Metal Mining is Japan's largest gold miner and a global leader in the development and mining of non-ferrous metals.

Linklaters advised Unilever on the sale of assets used for the manufacturing of spreads products in its Polish factory in Katowice to Upfield (Manufacturing) Polska sp. z o.o., a company from the KKR group. The transaction was part of a global sales process of Unilever's spreads business with operations in 66 countries worldwide, which includes brands such as Becel, Flora, Country Crock, Blue Band, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama and ProActiv. It was the largest leveraged buyout in Europe in 2017 and one of the largest private equity deals of 2017.

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Clifford Chance has advised Eurotower Frankfurt GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of the Eurotower in Frankfurt to Patrizia Immobilien AG. Patrizia was acting on behalf of the Taiwanese insurer Fubon Life. This was one of the largest real estate transactions on the Frankfurt market in 2018.

Hamburg – DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG has sold three underground natural gas storage facilities operating in southern Bavaria to NAFTA Bavaria GmbH. The buyer is a subsidiary of Slovak NAFTA a.s., a company of the Czech EPH Group. The transfer became effective as of January 1st, 2019.