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Greenberg Traurig assists CBREIM on closing on the acquisition of 49 prime logistics assets across Europe and the United States

A pan-European and transatlantic team at global law firm Greenberg Traurig assisted global real assets investment manager CBRE Investment Management (CBREIM) throughout the year on closing in stages on some 49 premium logistics assets across Europe and the United States. They form part of the 57-asset acquisition by affiliates of CBREIM from Hillwood Investment Properties that was announced at the beginning of the year and comprises of 24 logistics assets across Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom. 

The legal team of Greenberg Traurig comprised of some 35 attorneys on each side of the Atlantic, including in Europe attorneys from Berlin, Warsaw, and London. In Europe, this landmark deal is one of the largest real estate transactions executed in 2022. The transaction was led in Europe by a multijurisdictional shareholder team from Greenberg Traurig. Spearheaded by the co-chair of the firm’s Global Real Estate Practice Christian Schede (Berlin), the team was led in Poland by Karol Brzoskowski and Agnieszka Stankiewicz (Warsaw), in the United Kingdom by Sarah Louise Atkinson, and Danielle L. Martin (London), and for Germany and Luxembourg by Henning Sieber (Berlin). 

Background:

CBRE Investment Management is a global real assets investment management firm with USD 143.9 billion in assets under management. It operates in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world and is a longstanding client of Greenberg Traurig. This transatlantic deal represents a milestone deal for Greenberg Traurig’s global Real Estate practice.