Lawyers from the Greenberg Traurig Warsaw office advised Generali Real Estate in connection with the acquisition of an office building in Warsaw from S+B Gruppe.

The Greenberg Traurig transaction team was led by Partner Radomil Charzynski, supported by Senior Associates: Anna Wisniewska and Adam Narloch along with Associates: Filip Widuch and Maxymilian Rybczynski.

The transaction was executed as a share deal. The office building located at Senatorska 18, within the Plac Teatralny area, offers over 17 000 sqm of office space.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Piraeus Bank SA (Piraeus Bank) on its agreement with Eurobank Ergasias SA to sell its 99.98 percent shareholding in Piraeus Bank Bulgaria AD (PBB), to Eurobank Bulgaria AD.

The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including approvals of the National Bank of Bulgaria and the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund.

Ashurst advised the UK-based logistics investor Tritax EuroBox plc on the acquisition of a new distribution center in Peine, near Hannover, by way of an asset and share deal. The property is Tritax' first acquisition in Germany. The purchase price was €81.6m. Seller is the project developer Dietz AG, who will keep a smaller stake in the object. Dietz acted as the asset manager for Tritax on this off-market-deal.

The Federal Association of German Banks (BdB) has paved the way for the inclusion of the former regional bank HSH Nordbank in its deposit protection fund as a condition for the sale and the planned privatisation of the bank. Clifford Chance, supported by the Auditing Association of German Banks (Prüfungsverband deutscher Banken e.V.), advised BdB on the negotiations. This is the first time in German banking history that private investors have been allowed to take over a state-controlled regional bank.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised 15 lenders - 11 development finance institutions (AfDB, AFC, AFD, CDC, DEG, EAIF, EIB, FMO, IFC, OFID and Proparco) and 4 local commercial banks (BICEC, SCB Cameroon, Société Générale Cameroun and Standard Chartered Bank Cameroon) - on the financing of a 420-MW hydropower project on the Sanaga river near the Nachtigal Falls, located 65 km to the north-east of Yaoundé, Cameroon for a total project cost of 1.2 billion Euros.

Global law firm Clyde & Co has advised Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, on its acquisition of a 108 home PRS development (‘build to rent’) in Tottenham Hale, North London for approximately £41m.

The developer is Waterside Places, a Joint Venture between national development and urban regeneration specialists, Muse Developments, and the Canal & River Trust. It will develop the site and McLaren will construct the scheme, which is the first phase of a wider development that will provide over 500 canalside homes.

Travers Smith LLP has advised an investment vehicle backed by August Equity LLP on its strategic investment in Charterhouse Voice and Data ("Charterhouse").

The Travers Smith team was led by Private Equity Partner Will Yates who was supported by Private Equity Associates Max Conway and Raphaella Gabrasadig. Tax advice was provided by Tax Partner Hannah Manning who was supported by Tax Associate Edward Humphries.

Pitch Software GmbH, a technology startup from Berlin, founded by the team behind Wunderlist, the leading to-do app which was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, raised USD 19 million in its Series A financing round. Pitch is using modern web technologies, data integrations and team-oriented features to empower true collaboration and wants to make it significantly faster and easier for impactful presentations to be created and shared - both by individuals and teams. A Venture Capital team of Taylor Wessing has advised Index Ventures, led by Frankfurt partner Hassan Sohbi.

London — Mayer Brown represented HSBC in its negotiations on the design and development agreement with IHS Markit to create MyDeal, a digital technology app and underlying platform that enables the bank's employees and clients to access transactional, logistical and other updates relating to investor roadshows during the capital market fundraising process.

Dechert LLP has boosted its global finance practice with the addition of Cameron Mitcham as partner in London, which is a strategically important office for the firm and its securitization practice. Dechert has hired four key partners in its global finance practice since June, including Mr. Mitcham, who brings UK expertise to the firm’s top-ranked Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) team and securitization practice.