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Élise Bernard

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Olivier Bernardi

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Étienne Chesneau

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Perrine Delandre

Collaboratrice, projets, financements & infrastructures

Benjamin Delaunay

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Olivier Diaz

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Christophe Eck

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Farah El-Bsat

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Constance Emié-Bennet

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Alexandre Gauthier

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Sandra Godon

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Guillaume Goffin

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Nicolas Jean

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Emmanuel Larere

Partner - Membre du comité exécutif

Laëtitia Lemercier

Avocate associée - Opérations & Financements Immobiliers

Vianney Lenfant

Collaborateur

Jean-François Levraud

Managing Partner - Associé du département opérations & financements immobiliers

Didier G. Martin

Associé fusions acquisitions

Bénédicte Mazel

Avocate - Associée

Frédérique Misk-Malher

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Laurent Modave

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Sacha Najafi

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Frédéric Nouel

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Bertrand Oldra

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Marie Pastier-Mollet

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Amélie Pironneau

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Nicolas Planchot

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Stéphane Puel

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Cécile Régnier

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Anaïs Roudel

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Christopher Szostak

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Rémi Tabbagh

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Cléopha Thomann

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Béatrice Vojvodic

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Logistics

Ardian enters the self-storage market

"As part of our Real Estate strategy of diversifying asset classes, we are delighted to now include self-storage in our portfolio". The words are (...)

Logistics

AEW signs a 37,000 sqm extension in Plaine de l'Ain

On behalf of Logistis, its vehicle specialising in pan-European logistics, AEW has launched development work on a 37,000 sqm asset already pre-let to Intersport; this (...)

Housing

Uxco Group already invested over €200m in 2023

In the middle of the week, Brookfield owned investor Uxco Group signed an agreement to acquire a future Ecla student residence and coliving complex on (...)

Retail

Frey completes its first investment in Poland for €103m

Frey has completed the acquisition of the Matarnia Park Handlowy retail park in Gdańsk from Ingka Centres for a total of €103m including transfer (...)

Hospitality

Off-market, La Française REM signs future Ruby Hotels in Marseille

Off-market, La Française REM has acquired from BNP Paribas Immobilier Promotion a future 8,778 sqm (R+9) mixed-use property at 49-53 boulevard des Dames, Marseille, (...)

Housing

Uxco Group acquires new Ecla residence in Geneva

Uxco Group, a group majority-owned by a private Brookfield real estate fund, has signed an agreement to acquire a future Ecla residence in Archamps, (...)

Logistics

Aviva Investors acquires 96,000 sqm logistics portfolio

Aviva Investors has just struck hard in the French logistics market. Aviva plc's international asset management company has acquired a portfolio of three future (...)

Office

Valesco completes the €460m acquisition of Accor’s Paris global HQ tower

The Valesco Group has completed, via a sale and leaseback, the €460m acquisition of Sequana Tower. The tower, in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, (...)

Retail

AEW buys Paris 16th's Passy Plaza shopping centre from Generali

AEW is continuing to expand its retail property portfolio. Following the purchase of a prime Cannes boutique at 118 rue d'Antibes at the end (...)

Office

Société de la Tour Eiffel buys a developer's HQ in Issy-les-Moulineaux

Société de la Tour Eiffel has acquired "Millésime", the future headquarters of the developer Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, located at 113 avenue de Verdun in (...)

Office

Allianz Trade takes over La Défense's Inspire building

Designed by the architectural firm Béchu & Associés and built by BNP Paribas Immobilier Promotion, the 22,300 sqm Inspire building has been acquired by Allianz (...)

Logistics

Edmond de Rothschild REIM's Eiref fund buys a 42,100 sqm logistics warehouse near Lille

Edmond de Rothschild REIM has acquired a 42,100 sqm class A logistics warehouse in Hem, near Lille, on behalf of the Eiref* fund. The complex (...)

Office

AEW sells La Défense's CB3 building to the Icawood fund

The CB3 building located at 170 Place Henri Regnault in La Défense has just been sold by AEW acting on behalf of a consortium (...)

Logistics

AEW signs a new 37,800 sqm logistics platform near Orléans

Last month, AEW acquired a 32,000 sqm platform in Servon on behalf of Erafp. Today, again on behalf of Erafp, AEW has announced the (...)

Office

BlackRock and DCB International: a duo for the M-Lyon mixed-use building

Major transaction in Lyon. On behalf of a fund under management, BlackRock Real Assets has teamed up with DCB International for the construction of (...)

Retail

AEW buys a 8,400 sqm retail park from Real I.S. in Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois

In the La Croix-Blanche ZAC in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, South of Paris, AEW has acquired an 8,406 sqm retail park from Real I.S. on behalf of the SCPIs (...)

Logistics

Near Amiens, P3 Logistic Parks bets on an XXL platform

Big transaction on the logistics market. Indeed, the investor-developer P3 Logistic Parks has taken over a 110,213 sqm class A warehouse located in Saint-Sauveur, (...)

Housing

Ivanhoe Cambridge and CDC Habitat join forces to develop a housing portfolio

Ivanhoe Cambridge and CDC Habitat have signed a long-term partnership with an investment capacity of €500m. This partnership aims to develop a portfolio of (...)

Retail

Frey acquires Polish retail park Matarnia Park Handlowy for €105m

Listed REIT/SIIC Frey has signed a purchase agreement with Ingka Centres for the acquisition of the Polish retail park Matarnia Park Handlowy in Gdańsk, (...)

Logistics

AEW takes ownership of a 4,500 sqm urban logistics asset in inner Paris

AEW announces the off-market acquisition from Altarea Commerce of a 4,500 sqm urban logistics asset on behalf of Logistis, its fund specialising in pan-European (...)

Retail

AnaCap and DTZ Investors acquire Montpellier's Odysseum hypermarket from Swiss Life AM

AnaCap Financial Partners and DTZ Investors have completed the acquisition of the Géant Casino hypermarket shell located in the Odysseum shopping centre in Montpellier, (...)

Housing

Engie sells 70 brownfiled sites to be rehabilitated to a trio of property developers

Further proof that rehabilitation is a significant part of the future of real estate development. A partnership between Icade Promotion, Brownfields and Aire Nouvelle (...)

Territories

Morland Mixité Capitale is no more, long live La Félicité

Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris (left wing), unveiled the new name of the Morland Mixité Capitale building in the 4th arrondissement on Wednesday evening, (...)

Retail

AEW's Olympe portfolio won by BNP Paribas REIM's Accimmo Pierre SCPI fund

AEW's Olympe portfolio, comprising 17 retail properties fully leased to Décathlon for a total surface area of approximately 85,000 m², now belongs to the (...)

Retail

Eurocommercial Properties completes asset rotation programme

Eurocommercial Properties has sold the Les Grands Hommes gallery in Bordeaux for €22.5m. At the same time, the Dutch property company sold the offices (...)

Logistics

Near Lille, P3 Logistic Parks calls on OpenBox Co Design&Build to develop a 23,000 sqm platform

P3 Logistic Parks has entrusted OpenBox Co Design&Build with the construction of a 23,000 sqm logistics centre in Seclin, south of Lille. Developed off-plan (...)

Logistics

Tristan fund further expands its French logistics platform

EPISO 5, a fund managed by Tristan Capital Partners, has acquired a portfolio of three logistics assets (Essentials portfolio) from Ivanhoé Cambridge, a global (...)

Juridicial

Primonial shareholders demand €110m in compensation from Altarea

The legal battle between Primonial and Altarea has begun. In today's edition, L'Agefi reveals that Primonial's main shareholders (Bridgepoint, Latour Capital and Sogecap) are (...)

Juridicial

Primonial - Altarea: the legal battle is launched

Primonial's shareholders - the Bridgepoint and Latour Capital funds, Société Générale assurances and the group's shareholder managers - have taken legal action against Altarea, (...)

Housing

CNP Assurances and CDC Habitat sign a €2bn deal on France's residential market

French insurer CNP Assurances has acquired 85 % of the Lamartine fund - managed by Ampère Gestion - from CDC Habitat, which holds a (...)

Office

Credit Suisse, Redblue and CF Invest acquire Paris 2nd's 12 rue de la Paix

Redblue, CF Invest, an investment company of ClubFunding Group, and a real estate fund managed by Credit Suisse have just acquired the building at (...)

Office

Polska by MNK fund opens its counter in Warsaw for €12m

A few months after the launch of its specialised professional fund, Polska by MNK, dedicated to investment in Poland, MNK Partners has acquired the (...)

Housing

J.P. Morgan Asset Management buys 167 housing units from Emerige

A fund advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management has acquired three residential properties in the Greater Paris area, two of which are being developed (...)

Office

Tristan Capital Partners buys 46,500 sqm "Liberté 2" office campus near Paris

EPISO 5, a fund managed by Tristan Capital Partners, has purchased from two French institutional investors a 6-building office campus located on the Eastern (...)

Logistics

Nuveen Real Estate acquires 100,000 sqm of last mile logistics in France

Through its European logistics investment platform, Nuveen Real Estate has purchased three portfolios of last-mile logistics real estate comprising 17 assets with a total (...)

Housing

Uxco Group secures €140 m in financing for the ECLA campus

Uxco Group, the French student housing operator, has secured €140m of financing from BNP Paribas for the ECLA campus in Massy-Palaiseau. This financing is intended (...)

Finance

Frey closes two financings totalling €150m

French REIT/SIIC Frey has just signed two medium-term financing lines with ESG performance criteria for a total amount of €150m, with a 5-year maturity (...)

Office

DTZ Investors sells BNP Paribas Real Estate's Issy-les-Moulineaux HQ

DTZ Investors France has sold the current headquarters of BNP Paribas Real Estate, located in the heart of the Issy-les-Moulineaux service sector, to BC (...)

Finance

BC Partners Real Estate acquires a majority stake in Alsei Group

BC Partners Real Estate is taking a majority stake in the capital of the Alsei group on behalf of the BC Partners European Real (...)

Office

Union Investment pushes ahead in Paris and signs 59 Haussmann

Union Investment does it again! A few days after the acquisition of 5-7 avenue du Coq (Paris, 9th arrondissement), the group has signed, on (...)

Office

Nuveen Real Estate acquires a 7,000 sqm office building in Paris 15th

Nuveen Real Estate has acquired an office building located at 8 rue Jobbé Duval in the 15th district of Paris, on behalf of its (...)

Office

J.P. Morgan AM buys Paris 7th's 13-15 Cognacq-Jay

A fund advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management has acquired a 4,650 sqm office building located at 13-15 rue Cognacq-Jay in the 7th arrondissement (...)

Office

La Banque Postale AM chooses Nuveen's Morland Mixité Capitale for its future Paris headquarters

  Emerige, representing the SPNA and Nuveen, owner of the tertiary complex, announce the signing of their first lease with La Banque Postale Asset Management (...)

Office

BlackRock Real Assets buys an office building in Paris 7th

The 7th arrondissement of Paris is once again whetting the appetite of investors looking for prime office space. The American BlackRock Real Assets, on (...)

Office

Brookfield AM confirms the acquisition of Icade's Paris 19th former headquarters

Brookfield Asset Management, accompanied by Hemisphere, has confirmed the acquisition from Icade of the Millenaire 1 office building, located at 35 rue de la (...)

Office

J.P. Morgan and Altarea take over 14,000 sqm of office space from BNP Paribas in Paris CBD

The BNP Paribas banking group is accelerating the sale of its Paris buildings. The latest example to date: J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives and Altarea (...)

Office

Allianz sells Paris 8th's 16 avenue George V to French insurance group MACSF

This is undoubtedly one of the most attractive investment deals of early 2021: French insurance group MACSF has acquired the CBD complex located at (...)

Hospitality

Oaktree, Paris Inn Group and Maison Albar Hotels to create a hotel investment structure

Oaktree Capital Management, Paris Inn Group and Maison Albar Hotels have developed a partnership to create Centaurus, a hotel investment structure. Its objective will (...)

Office

Swiss Life AM confirms the acquisition of Engie's resized future campus

Swiss Life Asset Managers France, Engie and Nexity have made official the sale of Engie's future ecocampus, which will be resized. Engie's future campus in (...)

Office

Kaufman & Broad sells off-plan the Galion building near Paris

The French residential developer Kaufman & Broad has just signed an off-plan sale with the CRPN — Caisse de retraite du personnel navigant — for its 13,000 (...)

Logistics

Ivanhoe Cambridge buys a 36,000 sqm logistics platform in Roye from Catella Logistic Europe

Ivanhoe Cambridge has acquired from Catella Logistic Europe a 36,000 sqm logistics platform in Roye, on the Dorsale between Paris and Lille. In addition (...)

Green

Apsys issues its first green bond of €25.5m

French shopping centre group Apsys has announced the completion of its first "green" Euro Private Placement "Euro PP" bond issue for an amount of €25.52m. These bonds are (...)

Finance

Frey signs a €70m solidarity-based revolving credit line

Paris-based retail REIT/SIIC Frey has announced the signing of a €70m five-year solidarity-based revolving credit line, with two options to extend it for an (...)

Green

AXA IM-Real enters French timber-focused developer REI Habitat’s capital with 49% stake

REI Habitat and AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets have just entered into a partnership aimed at accelerating the development of the timber-focused developer. (...)

Office

Benson Elliot and GCI complete 22,000 sqm pre-let of major Paris office redevelopment

A joint venture between Benson Elliot, the London-based private equity real estate manager, Générale Continentale Investissements (GCI), the Paris real estate investment group, Canadian (...)

Office

Schroder Real Estate buys the 7,540 sqm Well West office building near Paris

Schroder Real Estate has acquired the 7,540 sqm Well West office building, in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, from Harbert Management Corporation (HMC). The price of (...)

Office

Allianz buys Boulogne-Billancourt’s City 1 and City 3 towers for €500m

According to BI sources, Paris-based insurance group BNP Paribas Cardif has sold the City 1 and City 3 towers, part of the CityLights complex in (...)

Office

Malakoff : InfraRed and Hemisphere sell the 14,300 sqm Tangram building to Amundi

London-based InfraRed Capital Partners and Paris-based Hemisphere have sold the 14,300 sqm Tangram office building, located in the Paris suburb of Malakoff, to French real estate investment manager Amundi (...)

Retail

Foncière Patrimonia buys Paris 8th's 51 avenue Montaigne

French unlisted real estate company, Fonciere Patrimonia, has acquired 51 avenue Montaigne, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, via a share deal. The tenant, Dior Couture, occupies the 806 sqm (...)

Office

GCI/Crédit Suisse joint-venture buys 10,200 sqm office project in Montrouge

Despite the context, investors are still showing an appetite for unsecured real estate products in the inner suburbs of Paris. According to BI sources, (...)

Office

France’s Icawood, WO2 and BNP PRE raise €650m to launch Nanterre's 126,000 sqm Arboretum campus

Icawood, a fund launched by Icamap and Ivanhoe Cambridge, WO2 and BNP Paribas Real Estate announced today that they have raised €650m for the (...)

Logistics

Nuveen Real Estate pays €135m for three French logistics assets

Nuveen Real Estate has just acquired three prime logistics assets in France, on behalf of one of its European logistics vehicles. These three acquisitions represent a (...)

Finance

KKR acquires majority shareholding in Etche France

US investment company KKR has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Etche France from the BMF Group and its co-founders. Etche is a private (...)

Office

Atland Voisin acquires Campus W in Seclin for nearly €59m

French SCPI manager Atland Voisin has acquired Campus W — a real estate complex located in the south of Lille, in the Seclin industrial (...)

Logistics

US-based HMC and France's Foncière Magellan sell a 47,000 sqm French business parks portfolio

US investment firm Harbert Management Corporation and French investment and asset manager Foncière Magellan have confirmed the sale of a portfolio consisting of four French (...)

Office

UK’s InfraRed and Paris-based Hemisphere sell Konect building in Saint-Ouen

London-based InfraRed Capital Partners and Paris-based Hemisphere have sold the 11,500 sqm Konect office building, in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen, to a structure (...)

Logistics

Round Hill Capital makes first investment in France with 5-assets logistics portfolio

Global investment company Round Hill Capital has announced that funds it advises have acquired a 5-assets logistics portfolio from French REIT/SIIC Société de la (...)

Office

Diderot Real Estate sells Lumière portfolio for €42m

Paris-based private real estate company Diderot Real Estate, dedicated to investments in turnkey rental construction operations, a sold the Lumière portfolio, comprising 10 mixed-use (...)

Logistics

Ivanhoe Cambridge acquires French logistics portfolio Hub&Flow

Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate unit of Québec pension fund CDPQ, has acquired a 430,000 sqm logistics portfolio and the "Hub&Flow" brand from The Carlyle Group following (...)

Office

France’s Groupama officially sells Paris 9th arrond. Soco building to UK's Aviva

Paris-based Groupama Immobilier and UK's Aviva Investors have announced the final signature of the sale of the SoCo building, located at 44-48 rue Saint (...)

Logistics

Tikehau Capital and Foncière Atland sell a 180,000 sqm industrial portfolio to Blackstone

Paris-based listed investment firm Tikehau Capital, and French REIT/SIIC Foncière Atland have sold to a fund managed by Blackstone a portfolio of 22 industrial assets (...)

Office

BlackRock makes first French investment with EFV - Tour Voltaire in La Défense

US wealth management giant BlackRock has made its first investment in France from its Europe Property Fund V raised in summer - the 36,000 (...)

Office

Icawood makes first investment, in low-carbon project in Paris

Icawood, the investment fund created in 2019 by France's Icamap and Canada's Ivanhoe Cambridge, has made its first investment - in a 31,500 sqm low-carbon project (...)

Finance

French Apsys wins €300m 10yr Allianz senior loan to refinance Poznan mall

French shopping centre group Apsys has won a €300m 10-year senior loan from Allianz to refinance its Polish shopping centre Posnania in Poznan, taking ownership up to 100%. "The completion of this (...)

Housing

Altarea Cogedim acquires a 50% stake in Woodeum Résidentiel

The founders of the Woodeum group, Guillaume Poitrinal and Philippe Zivkovic, announced today that French REIT/SIIC Altarea Cogedim has acquired a 50% stake in (...)

Office

Germany's Union Investment adds period office asset near Paris Louvre

Germany's Union Investment has acquired a renovated office property near the Louvre Museum in Paris dating back to 1855 and with 9,700 sqm of (...)

Office

GCI lets 7,000 sqm Paris Opéra Italiens to WeWork 4mths after purchase

Private Paris developer and investor GCI has fully leased its 7,000 sqm GLA Opéra Italiens building in the central business district to WeWork France just four months after (...)

Retail

Canada's Oxford said paying €90m for prestigious Paris fashion store

Canada's Oxford Properties, part of the Canadian OMERS pension plan, has acquired one of Paris' most prestigious fashion stores, 273 rue du Saint-Honoré, at (...)

Office

US-based KKR sells €100m portfolio of French offices, phone centres

Giant US M&A specialist and asset manager KKR has sold a portfolio of 30 French offices and telephone centres for over €100m to Eternam, (...)

Office

US PGIM acquires 7,000 sqm The Square office in Paris

PGIM Real Estate, a division of the US listed Prudential financial group, has acquired the 7,000 sqm The Square office complex in Paris, from funds (...)

Hospitality

Henderson Park closes €550m Paris Westin buy with CACIB financing

London-based private equity investor Henderson Park has completed the €550m purchase of the Westin Paris-Vendôme hotel in Paris from Singapore sovereign GIC, securing senior (...)

Housing

CDC Habitat, Swiss Life confirm group buy of SNCF resi portfolio

Following a BIE report, French CDC Habitat and Swiss Life Asset Managers have confirmed that their group, which includes Germany's Vonovia and two state pension funds, (...)