Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets (‘AXA’), which led a consortium of AXA clients and funds, on its acquisition of a logistics properties portfolio from Gramercy Property Europe. The portfolio comprises forty properties and this deal places their collective value at approximately €1bn.

Freshfields has regularly advised AXA on real estate transactions, such as its recent acquisition of seventeen healthcare assets in Germany from real estate funds that were managed by Blackstone.
 
The multijurisdictional Freshfields team was led by real estate partners Niko Schultz-Süchting and Mark Wheelhouse.