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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Germany's biggest residential landlord Vonovia launched its public takeover offer for all shares in rival Deutsche Wohnen on Wednesday, a 136-page document which states that the acceptance period for shareholders ends on 21 July.
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Quest Investment Partners has unveiled plans to acquire a majority stake in property management company Albrecht Gebrüder & Co., which was founded in 1987 and is based in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.
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JLL has acquired UK-based Capra Global Partners as part of a bid to expand its debt and capital markets business across Europe, Asia and North America (EMEA).
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Ares Management, the US firm, has struck an agreement with French start-up, Colonies, to acquire and refurbish affordable co-living apartments in major urban centres across Western Europe.
