Amundi Real Estate, Europe's largest asset investment manager, has sold 49 percent of shares in the Berlin office property Rocket Tower to Finnish pension fund Ilmarinen. International law firm Clifford Chance has again advised Amundi on this transaction.

The Berlin Rocket Tower complex comprises approximately 26,200 square metres of rental space, and its main user is the Internet eCommerce group Rocket Internet. Amundi had acquired

Ashurst advised Numis Securities as sponsor on Trinity Mirror’s acquisition of newspaper publishing group Northern & Shell for £127 million, one of the most significant UK newspaper mergers in decades.

Ashurst advised Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH (Warburg-HIH Invest) on the acquisition of the Carré Göttingen shopping centre for a special fund it manages. Carré Göttingen was sold by Kilderkin S.a.r.l., Luxembourg, a special purpose vehicle of Resolution III Holding.

Gilbert + Tobin today announced it advised BPAY Group on the development and implementation of Australia’s first service on the New Payments Platform providing faster, 24/7 payments.

Osko by BPAY™, the first payment product of its kind, allows Australians to transfer funds between accounts faster than ever before, typically in less than a minute – even between customers of different financial institutions.

Reed Smith has advised Warehouse REIT plc in relation to its acquisition of a portfolio of 51 multi-let UK warehouse assets for £116 million from Industrial Multi-Property Trust, a subsidiary of Hansteen Holdings plc. The transaction was structured as a corporate acquisition of a group of Isle of Man companies which currently own the portfolio. Reed Smith handled the corporate and tax aspects of the transaction.

This transaction follows Warehouse REIT’s successful listing on AIM in September 2017 which the Reed Smith team also advised on.

Ropes & Gray acted as international counsel to Google on a six year abuse of dominance investigation conducted by the Competition Commission of India into the company, regarding search and advertising within India.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by competition partner Ruchit Patel, assisted by associate Charlotte Brunsdon, both based in London.

Weil advised KME AG, a globally active manufacturer of copper and copper alloy products, in the successful placement of a high-yield bond with a volume of €300 million and maturation in 2023. The proceeds from the offering are to be used to repay existing debt.

O’Melveny represented Cedexis, a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across CDNs, ISPs, public clouds, and datacenters, in its acquisition by Citrix, which offers integrated technology services for secure delivery of apps and data.

Deal represents the largest European buyout to date in 2018.

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading global, independent infrastructure investor, has announced that its third equity fund, Global Infrastructure Partners III, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the equity interest of Italian railway operator Italo – Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A. (Italo) for Euro 1.94 billion in cash.

Davis Polk advised the administrative agent and joint lead arrangers in connection with the repricing of the $1.342 billion term loan facility and the $75 million revolving loan facility for Cision Ltd. The repricing accomplished a 100 basis point reduction in the applicable margin on the U.S. dollar-denominated term loans and a 75 basis point reduction in the applicable margin on the Euro-denominated term loans and on the U.S. dollar revolving credit facility.