Savills Investment Management, the international real estate investment manager, has announced the completion of its strategic alliance with Korean life insurer Samsung Life, and its real estate asset management subsidiary, Samsung SRA.
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German residential giant Vonovia has successfully completed its voluntary public takeover of Deutsche Wohnen, securing around 87.6% of its peer's voting rights.
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London data centre business Kao Data, which is backed by Legal & General and Goldacre, has welcomed a new shareholder in the shape of New Zealand's Infratil.
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US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has emerged victorious in the battle to take over UK supermarket chain Morrisons, clinching a £7 bn (€11.6 bn) deal during an auction held at the weekend.
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Global private investment firm Castlelake has acquired a 49% stake in Millenium Hotels Real Estate (MHRE), a listed real estate investment company specialising in luxury hotel properties in Spain and Portugal.
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Amundi’s former head of real assets has led a takeover of L’Etoile Properties, one of Amundi’s key investing partners.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to sell its 5% stake in Globalworth to CPI Property Group and Germany's Aroundtown, which are pursuing a takeover bid of the Romanian office landlord.
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Stockholm-listed property firm Castellum has acquired Kielo, a sustainable office developer-investor launched by Brunswick Real Estate and Blackstone in 2017, for around €640 mln.
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Listed residential landlord Vonovia has gained approval for its takeover of rival Deutsche Wohnen from Germany's Federal Cartel Office, clearing the way for a merger that will create Europe's largest housing group with more than 500,000 apartments.
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Vienna- and Warsaw-listed Immofinanz has definitively abandoned its €1.14 bn takeover bid for Austrian real estate peer S Immo, after the latter's shareholders rejected a structural change necessary to greenlight the combination offer.
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UK REIT LondonMetric Property has purchased a long let cold storage and logistics warehouse development for £53.4 mln (€64 mln).
