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CMS and Dentons Advise on Landmark Real Estate Deal in the Czech Republic

CMS and Dentons Advise on Landmark Real Estate Deal in the Czech Republic

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CMS has advised German real estate fund Deka Immobilien on the acquisition of the prestigious building complex “The Park” in Prague from an affiliate of the Starwood Capital Group global private investment firm. Dentons advised the sellers on the deal, which was signed on September 29 and came to a successful close on November 14. According to CMS, it is the largest ever office transaction in the Czech Republic.

“The Park” is a complex consisting of 12 office buildings built between 2003 and 2008 in a campus-style formation with a central plaza on a property approximately 75,000 square meters in size. The 116,000 square meters of leasable space is primarily occupied by such international technology companies as DHL, Honeywell, CA Technologies, and IBM.

The CMS transactions team advising Deka Immobilien was led by Prague Partner Lukas Hejduk, and consisted of Partner Pavla Kreckova and Associates Petr Huk, Lucie Kislerova, Petr Koral, Michal Samek, Tereza Maternova, Magda Nemcova, Pavel Kocian, Barbora Dubanska, Tomas Pavelka, Frances Gerrard, and Lukas Valusek.

The Dentons team was led by Partner Jiri Strzinek, supported by Counsel Marketa Tvrda and Associate Jan Hrivnak. Strzinek also coordinated the Luxembourg team advising on Luxembourg law, which was led by Partner Stephane Hadet, working with Senior Associate Olivier Lesage and Associate Christophe Renaudin.

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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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