Dentons' Real Estate team in Warsaw has advised Cromwell Property Group on the sale of the Warsaw Corporate Center office building to Raiffeisen Immobilien Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft.

Developed in 1997, the Warsaw Corporate Center is a prominent, nine-storey office building offering over 8,600 sq.m. of leasable space. It is conveniently located in Warsaw major communication hub, in the immediate vicinity of Warsaw Central Railway Station and Centrum metro station.

A cross-border team from global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is advising US-based medtech giant Varian Medical Systems, Inc. on its proposed AU$1.58 billion acquisition of all of the issued share capital of ASX-listed life sciences company Sirtex Medical Limited, currently the largest takeover deal announced in Australia for 2018.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised TalkTalk Telecom Group plc on its successful £200 million cashbox placing to strengthen its balance sheet, support its continued customer growth and its investment in its long-term fibre plans announced today (8 February).

The Osborne Clarke transaction team worked alongside TalkTalk’s General Counsel, Tim Morris, and Head of Legal, Nadia Hoosen.

Mishcon de Reya has advised one of Israel's largest real estate investment holding companies, Alony Hetz Properties and Investments Limited, on the acquisition of real estate investment advisers, Brockton Capital LLP and the establishment of a new real estate investment company, Brockton Everlast Inc. Limited with an initial equity investment of £340m from Alony Hetz.

Schulte represented hedge fund manager Fir Tree Partners in connection with entering into a Cooperation Agreement and securing a Board seat at Ultra Petroleum Corp. Fir Tree’s Evan Lederman was named a new director of the board, and Fir Tree will work with Ultra Petroleum to find a replacement for its chairman and CEO, who has stepped down. Fir Tree owns about 20 percent of stock in Ultra Petroleum, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and production company focused on developing its natural gas reserves in the Green River Basin of Wyoming.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) has advised Bremen-based ZEABORN Group (“ZEABORN”) on its acquisition of E.R. Schiffahrt, from its parent E.R. Group, which is owned by Mr Erck Rickmers.

E.R. Schiffahrt is a dedicated ship management company with offices in Hamburg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the Philippines. Ship broker a, a subsidiary of E.R. Group, was also acquired by ZEABORN as part of this transaction.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) has advised Bremen-based ZEABORN Group (“ZEABORN”) on its acquisition of E.R. Schiffahrt, from its parent E.R. Group, which is owned by Mr Erck Rickmers.

E.R. Schiffahrt is a dedicated ship management company with offices in Hamburg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the Philippines. Ship broker Harper Petersen, a subsidiary of E.R. Group, was also acquired by ZEABORN as part of this transaction.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Japanese shipowner Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL) on the tender process to provide a pioneering Liquefied Natural Gas bunker vessel (LNGBV) on long-term charter contract to Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions. This is the first LNGBV of this scale globally at 18,600 m³ to be built in China and delivered in 2020. The vessel will operate in Northern Europe and will be the first ever LNGBV capable of supplying large quantities of LNG in one single bunkering operation.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised KGAL, a leading independent asset and investment manager with an investment volume of €21.5bn across 87,000 investors, on all aspects of the acquisition of two project companies owning two French photovoltaic plants, with an overall installed capacity of 18.58 MW, from French developer Solairedirect. The WFW team also assisted KGAL on the negotiation of the project contracts with Solairedirect.