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DLA Piper has advised the Aareal Bank on financing Star Capital Finance's EUR 285 million acquisition of six shopping centers in Poland from the Cromwell Property Group.
Clifford Chance Badea has advised Premier Energy on its IPO and listing on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounting to approximately RON 700 million. Dentons advised the bookrunners. Moldova's Turcan Cazac and Cyprus' Chrysses Demetriades & Co reportedly advised the bookrunners as well.
A&O Shearman has advised BNP Paribas Bank Polska, mBank, Bank Pekao, PKO Bank Polski, and Citi on financing the American Heart of Poland. Dentons advised the borrower.
Cobalt, working with Dentons, has advised Latvian national airline AirBaltic on its EUR 340 million issuance of senior secured bonds with a maturity of 5.25 years to be listed on the Euronext Dublin stock exchange. TGS Baltic, working with Linklaters, advised joint global coordinators BNP Paribas, Citi, and JP Morgan, joint bookrunners Morgan Stanley and SEB, and co-managers LHV and Signet Bank.
CMS has advised R.Power Renewables on the up to PLN 190 million financing by Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski for the construction of a photovoltaic portfolio with a total capacity of about 59 megawatts. Dentons advised the bank.
Greenberg Traurig has advised the Cromwell Property Group on its EUR 285 million sale of a real estate portfolio consisting of six retail centers located in Warsaw, Szczecin, Wroclaw, Lodz, Torun, and Bydgoszcz to Star Capital Finance. Dentons advised Star Capital Finance.
Dentons has advised the CPI Property Group on its EUR 500 million issuance of Regulation S 7.0% green bonds due 2029.
Greenberg Traurig has advised Wood & Company on the joint venture agreements for a logistics project in Tczew, near Gdansk, with logistics developer 7R. Dentons reportedly advised 7R.
Dentons has advised PBB Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen on a EUR 155 million refinancing of European Logistics Investment's portfolio of 11 logistics parks in nine locations across Poland, with a total gross leasable area of over 335,000 square meters. Linklaters reportedly advised ELI.
Former Allen & Overy lawyers Maciej Skoczynski and Marek Neumann have joined the Warsaw office of Dentons as Partner and Managing Counsel, respectively.
“Water resilience” is joining AI, competitiveness and sovereignty, as a new buzzword in Brussels’ policy-making conversations. But while the latter three concepts are rather intangible, water resilience is a more concrete concept, and is also a life-threatening problem.
PHH has advised RGreen Invest on its EUR 50 million financing for the CCE Group to start construction of a 400-megawatt portfolio of photovoltaic projects. Dentons and Dumfarth Klausberger advised CCE.
WKB Lawyers has advised Afcon Renewable Energy and EuroEnergy on the financing for the development of a 20-megawatt solar photovoltaic park located in the Boguszyn precinct in southwest Poland. Dentons advised mBank on the PLN 65.7 million credit facilities.
Dentons and Gessel have advised the founders of Profitroom and the Cyber_Folks company respectively on the agreement to sell a 65% stake in Profitroom to the MCI Capital ASI SA fund. Dubinski Jelenski Masiarz reportedly advised the buyer.
Dentons has advised mBank on its PLN 199 million facility agreement with Enwind to refinance the existing Gluchow I wind farm and finance construction of the new Gluchow II wind farm, with a combined capacity of 40 megawatts. Clifford Chance reportedly advised Enwind.
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Dentons has advised Cero Generation – a Macquarie Asset Management portfolio company operating on a stand-alone basis – on the sale of its controlled Polish photovoltaic portfolio with a total capacity of 80 megawatts to GoldenPeaks Capital.
Dentons' Turkish affiliate Balcioglu Selcuk Ardiyok Keki has advised Ikas on its USD 20 million Series A funding round led by the IFC and the Re-Pie Asset Management Company. Clifford Chance Turkish affiliate Ciftci Attorney Partnership advised the IFC. Unsal advised Re-Pie.
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