Offices: Brussels, Belgium

Real Estate & Real Estate Financing

Representative matters McGuire Woods’ Brussels office:

• a Dutch bank specializing in real estate development finance, as lender, for the re-financing of two of the largest shopping centers in Belgium, worth more than EUR 100,000,000 and EUR 265,000,000 respectively; for the financing of the acquisition of real estate in view of the development at the Belgian coast of a residential complex worth over EUR 80,000,000; as lender, for the financing over EUR 100,000,000 of the acquisition and renovation by a Luxembourg based real estate fund of three sets of office buildings in Brussels; as lender, for the financing some EUR 40,000,000 of the acquisition and redevelopment of a shopping center combined with offices and dwelling in the historical centre of Ghent
• a Belgian State owned real estate agency for the follow-up and implementation pursuant to the earlier signature of an MOU for the projected construction of the new seat for an international organization, for an amount over EUR 240,000,000
• a U.K. listed real estate company for the acquisition of an office building in the centre of Brussels
• another U.K. listed real estate company for the final closing agreement and breakdown upon the termination of a letting and renovation guarantee period in respect of the prior sale of a landmark office tower situated in Brussels; for the acquisition of a landmark research centre with laboratories, research facilities and offices situated nearby the University of Louvain-la-Neuve