DLA Piper has a market-leading real estate offering in the Nordic region with a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers that serves the needs of clients across the real estate sector
Real Estate
Unlike many other international law firms, real estate is a core practice of our firm and, as a result, we provide integrated services for the real estate, tax, financing and related legal needs of many of the world’s leading real estate owners, investors, lenders and developers. Our clients benefit from the skills and resources of a global law firm dedicated to worldwide collaboration, streamlined management and state-of-the-art knowledge-sharing technologies.
The level of sophistication and the complexity of investment structures in real estate have increased over the past two decades. We believe you are best served when you receive all relevant legal advice from the same source – a seamless service where our understanding of your business, your preferred risk profile, and knowledge of your investments is never lost.
Client quotations from legal directories
A “good team” that “focuses on solutions” and is “proactive, thorough and client service-minded.”
“We work closely with their lawyers as a team and they contribute actively both for better commercial deals and security on legal aspects.”
Other satisfied clients call the firm “very good, knowledgeable” and “able to offer good advice.”
The real estate team operates on a regional, national and global basis, which means that services can be provided cost-effectively and to a consistently high level by any of our offices in the Nordic region.
Headcount
The Nordic real estate group consist of more than 100 lawyers who support clients throughout the life cycle of their real estate transactions. We have a thorough understanding of the regional markets, working extensively with regional, national and international clients on their investments and developments in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.
- Advising Prologis European Logistics Fund on the acquisition of 11 prime logistics properties of 295,000 sq. m., mainly located in Stockholm and the Gothenburg area, from Logistikfastigheter i Sverige AB. The transaction value was EUR 360 million.
- Advising Savills Investment Management and acting on behalf of its Nordic Fund III - Retail, on the acquisition of a EUR 120 million retail portfolio comprising four retail parks from IKEA Centres in Sweden. The properties comprise a total of 67,000 sq.m. of retail premises located in Uddevalla, Borlänge, Haparanda and Uppsala. Our work for Savills Investment Management also included the set-up of the Nordic Fund III - Retail and financing.
- Advising 90 North Real Estate Partners on the acquisitions and management of logistics assets in Norway worth a total of EUR 70 million.
- Advising Generali Real Estate on the acquisition of a 1,700 sq. m. retail and residential property in Copenhagen.
- Advising a fund managed by Corum Asset Management on the acquisition of two hypermarket properties in Finland.
- Advising Round Hill Capital on the acquisition of two residential portfolios in Finland consisting of approx. 4,000 housing units.
- Advising Partners Group on the acquisition of a EUR 100 million five-asset office and industrial portfolio in Norway.
- Advising Kildare Partners on the acquisitions and management of a EUR 120 million 12-asset retail portfolio in Norway.
- Advising Partners Group in connection with NREP’s sale of the “Nordic Living” portfolio to Heimstaden consisting of eight residential properties in Denmark of a total of 38,000 sq. m. and a transaction value of approx. EUR 147 million.
- Advising Blackstone on the acquisition of a residential property consisting of 10 residential units in Copenhagen from a Danish commercial fund.
- Advising Prologis on the acquisition of a logistics property located in Rosersberg, Stockholm, from a Swedish family-owned real estate company.
- Advising Varma on the acquisition from NCC of an office campus in Finland.
