Sven Nickel

Sven’s experience includes advising:

• Acquisition of Wilhelminenhaus in Darmstadt. Extending over around 25,700 sqm, the centrally located property in Darmstadt was transferred from the commercial portfolio of DIC into the fund*
• Acrotec (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group) on the:
  • Acquisition of Friedrich Daniels
  • Acquisition of Mebus MIM-Technik
• Advent International on a global joint venture with LANXESS and joint acquisition of DSM Engineering Materials
• AEW on the acquisition of the office building "Baseler Palais" in Frankfurt*
• AFIAA Investment Foundation for Real Estate Investments in foreign countries on the sale of Westfalen-Center Dortmund
• Apollo on:
  • The €1 billion investment in the Northern Portfolio (residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia)
  • The €1 billion investment in the Suedewo Portfolio (residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia)
• Barings and Tristan-managed fund CCP 5 LL on the acquisition of 34 logistics facilities for cold foods from Nagel. The transaction was conducted by way of a sale & leaseback deal. The portfolio comprises 260,000 sqm located in Germany and Denmark*
• Bregal on the:
  • Majority investment in BSI Software
  • Acquisition of medavis GmbH
  • Sale of EA Elektro-Automatik Holding GmbH
• Deutsche Bank and Orchard Global Asset Management on the sale of HIT Holzindustrie Torgau to Mercer International Inc.
• Digital Realty on the sale of data centers in Germany and the US
• EG Group on its acquisition of the OMV petrol station network in Southern Germany
• EMZ Partners on the:
  • Sale of Simon Hegele to Nippon Express Holdings (together with further stakeholders)
  • Acquisition of a majority stake in Aspire Education Group
• Equistone
  • On the acquisition of a majority stake in Plutona Acquisition AG
  • And other shareholders on the sale of Sport Group
• GEG German Estate on the acquisition of the 'Garden Tower' located in the Frankfurt banking district by way of share deal*
• GIP and KKR on the strategic partnership with Vodafone to invest in Vantage Towers
• Hg on the:
  • Further investment in P&I
  • Sale of F24
  • Strategic investment in LucaNet
  • Sale of MEDIFOX DAN
• Lugman Group on the acquisition of the Fechenheim Industrial Park from Clariant
• Mainova on the sale of a majority stake in its data center business to Blackrock
• Novo Nordisk on the acquisition of Cardior Pharmaceuticals
• One Rock Capital Partners on the acquisition of Prefere Resins Group
• OneIM and OCP on the acquisition of Adler Group’s €422.5 million “Cosmopolitan” portfolio, located in North Rhine-Westphalia 
• Quadriga Capital on the sale of its majority stake in SCIO Automation Holding GmbH
• Samsung Life Insurance on the acquisition of the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt am Main*
• Taiwanese insurer Fubon Life on the acquisition of the Eurotower in Frankfurt. The purchase price was €530 million*
• Unsere Grüne Glasfaser on the acquisition of Infrafibre Germany
• Versicherungskammer Bayern on the acquisition of the Calwer Passage in Stuttgart
• Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH on the:
  • Acquisition of the DB Brick and DB Tower buildings located within the Europaviertel quarter in Frankfurt by way of a forward deal*
  • Acquisition of the "Hattrick"-Portfolio from Real I.S.*
  • Acquisition of the new office building "Kite" in Ossendorf, Cologne*
  • Acquisition of the office and retail property Pick-up in Aachen from the developer Landmarken within the framework of an asset deal*
  • Acquisition of the office campus project of the French Société Générale group in Hamburg from the developer ECE by way of an asset deal*
  • Sale of the TOP 5 Portfolio. The portfolio consists of five nearly fully let assets in Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt and comprises of more than 70,000 sqm lettable area*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham