Project Finance

Experience - Stibbe's Real Estate Transaction Group, led by Boris Cammelbeeck, has advised Mitiska REIM with the acquisition of Makado Beek retail center from Syntrus Achmea. Makado Beek is one of the largest retail centers in the Netherlands, attracting over 3 million visitors per year, with a gross leasable area (GLA) of 35,060m2, comprising 79 retail units and parking for 1,500 cars.

Experience - Stibbe advises the Municipality of The Hague, Housing Association Staedion, and Heijmans on a major inner city restructuring in The Hague area, consisting of the (re)development of 5,500 houses, commercial real estate and public areas.

Experience - Stibbe advises Schroders Capital on the acquisition of Dutch real estate investment specialist Cairn Real Estate, a real estate fund and asset management business based in the Netherlands with €1.3 billion of assets under management from MPC Capital, a German investment management group focused on renewables.

Experience - Stibbe advised GGID and EscherCloud on Project Westpoort, the acquisition of a property in Amsterdam Westpoort and a series of assets from Caransa Group, as well securing financing from debt and various equity investors.

Experience - Stibbe advised consortium ZuidPlus (Fluor, Heijmans and Hochtief) in connection with the Zuidasdok project in Amsterdam.

Experience - Stibbe advises Alides REIM on the acquisition of the entities owning the 12,868m² Montoyer 34 office building located in the heart of the European district in Brussels.

Experience - Stibbe advised the VEENIX consortium on reaching financial close in the PPP Project A9 Badhoevedorp-Holendrecht. Financial Close occurred on 2 December 2019. The VEENIX consortium is led by Macquarie Capital and supported by Siemens and project delivery firm Count & Cooper. VEENIX is also supported by FCC Construcción as contractor.

Experience - The Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management officially opened the first lanes of the Gaasperdammertunnel on the A9 in Amsterdam-Zuidoost on 5 July. The Gaasperdammertunnel forms part of the PPP SAA A9 Gaasperdammerweg roads project.

Experience - Stibbe acts as transaction counsel to Floating PV NV, a vehicle set up by Sibelco, Groep Machiels and Luminus to build five hectares of floating solar panels at Sibelco’s Schansheide quarry in Dessel, Flemish Region, Belgium, integrating various innovative techniques such as solar tracking that allows the panels to rotate with the sun, an adjusting slope angle, double-sided panels and active cooling.

Experience - On 18 February 2020, the contract for the design, construction, finance and maintenance of the Dendermonde Prison project in Belgium has reached Financial Close successfully. The Belgian Buildings Agency (Regie der Gebouwen / Régie des Bâtiments) awarded BAM PPP b.v. the contract for the provision of a prison in Dendermonde, which will house 444 inmates.

Experience - Stibbe advised Macquarie in connection with their winning bid for the tender of the design, build, financing and maintenance (DBFM) of the A9 Badhoevedorp/Holendrecht Project.

Experience - Stibbe represented the bankruptcy trustees of  the Amsterdam hospital MC Slotervaart in proceedings against the City of Amsterdam, centred on the City’s demand that the bankruptcy trustees investigate whether there were any irregularities prior to the bankruptcy.