Dentons has advised Skanska on the sale of its first office project in Poznan, the Malta House office building, to a joint venture between investment vehicles managed by Bluehouse Capital Advisor and REINO Partners. This is Skanska’s second transaction with REINO Partners. Last year REINO Partners acquired from Skanska one of the two buildings of Kapelanka 42 office complex in Cracow which the Dentons' team also advised on.

Slaughter and May advised DIDIX, a Dutch gift card group, on the sale of tastecard and Gourmet Society Diners' Clubs to Bridgepoint Development Capital and management for an undisclosed sum. The Gourmet Society and tastecard are the UK's number one and number two restaurant discount card clubs respectively and collectively offer discounts to members at over 10,000 restaurants across the UK for an annual membership fee.

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Setterwalls has assisted Arise AB (publ) in connection with its sale of the wind farm Mombyåsen in Sandviken municipality to Allianz Capital Partners. The wind farm consists of ten Vestas-wind turbines with a total effect of 33 MW. Underlying project rights have been acquired from E.ON. Construction has started and the wind farm will be operational at the end of 2016. As part of the transaction Arise delivers construction of the park and management services for five years.   

Dentons has advised the seller of a prime real estate portfolio in Budapest, which includes, among others, MOM Park Shopping Center and Offices, West End Business Center Offices, to a consortium consisting of Morgan Stanley, Wing and CC Real.

Gleiss Lutz has advised E.ON SE, Düsseldorf, on the sale of its Italian hydroelectric power plants to the ERG Group.

Osborne Clarke has advised long-standing client Student Castle on the disposal of a £330 million student accommodation portfolio announced today. The disposal comprises some 2,153 beds across five student accommodation schemes in the UK and has been sold to CPPIB Liberty Living, a wholly owned business of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

Clifford Chance advised Union Investment on the sale of the EUR 1 billion pan-European "Aqua" portfolio to Amundi Immobilier.

The deal constitutes one of the largest European portfolio sales of the year. The purchase agreement for the "Aqua" portfolio is subject to the usual closing conditions, with transfer of the portfolio to Amundi expected in the fourth quarter of 2015.

DLA Piper has advised the Indigo Invest Group on the sale of an office building in Schwabing, a district of Munich. It offers a lettable area of some 10,000 square metres which is currently fully occupied by 15 tenants. The purchaser is the KGAL Group.

Clifford Chance advised Aug. Prien Immobilien and a fund company managed by The Carlyle Group on the sale of the "BrahmsQuartier" office development in Hamburg to Allianz Real Estate Germany GmbH. The parties have agreed not to disclose any details of the purchase price.

The "BrahmsQuartier", which was completed in 2009, includes office space of around 26,500 m², along with 2,900 m² of additional space and approximately 540 parking spaces. The main tenants are Exxon Mobil and a law firm.

CMS has advised Invesco Real Estate on the sale of shopping centre Varyada in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, to European Property Group.

Varyada shopping centre was opened in 2005 and consists of ca. 18,000 sqm of retail space with an Albert hypermarket as anchor tenant and houses an additional 65 retailers. The shopping centre is located in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.