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E+H and CMS Advise on Sale of Althan Quartier Project

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E+H has advised Baustoff + Metall, RPR Privatstiftung, and Stefan Schoenauer on the acquisition and refinancing of the Althan Quartier in Vienna. CMS advised the sellers – a banking consortium led by Raiffeisen Bank International and including Oberbank, Raiffeisenlandesbanken Steiermark and Oberoesterreich, Volksbank Wien, Sparkasse, VKB, and Hypo Vorarlberg.

The transaction remains contingent on regulatory approval.

According to CMS, "the takeover by the new consortium and the overall debt restructuring have secured the financing of the major project until its planned completion in 2025." Furthermore, the firm reports that the Althan Quartier is "currently being developed on the 2.4 hectare site above the Franz-Josefs railway station in Vienna. With a total gross floor area of approximately 130,000 square meters, Althan Quartier will offer offices, retail, restaurants, leisure, and cultural facilities as well as high-quality apartments, hotel rooms, and parking spaces."

The E+H team included Senior Partner Alric Ofenheimer, Partners Peter Winkler, Karoline Hofmann, Laurenz Liedermann, Josef Schmidt, and Judith Feldner, Attorney at Law Helena Neuner, and Associates Anna Friedrich, Alexander Koschell, Sandra Leutl, Yvonne Handler.

The CMS team included Partners Stefan Paulmayer, David Kohl, Mariella Kapoun, and Nikolaus Weselik, Attorney at Law Wolfgang Hellsberg, and Associates Ramona Mujanovic, Valentin Oelz, Clemens Macho, and Maximilian Uidl.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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