Niam Nordic
Investment Fund III
Office Portfolios

SEK 1,650 million

Investment Loan (Club Deal)
Sweden
June 2011

pbb and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) acted as joint mandated Lead Arrangers in providing investment finance to NIAM III News AB for the «News» and «Palmfelt» office portfolios in Sweden. Both banks have equal shares in the underwriting of this transaction. The office portfolios consist of four office buildings, three of them in Stockholm and one in Lund in southern Sweden.

GLL GmbH & Co
Messe Turm KG
Messe Turm

155 Mio. €

Investment loan (club deal)
Frankfurt, Germany
December 2011

As joint arrangers, pbb and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) have arranged newly structured funding for GLL GmbH & Co. MesseTurm KG. The MesseTurm is one of Frankfurt’s landmark buildings. It was designed by the worldrenowned Chicago architectural office Murphy Jahn, and was completed in 1990 with a height of 265 meters. The high-rise building has 52 floors of rental office space, a total area of 62,135 m².

IMMOFINANZ
Group
Silesia City Center

€ 210 million

Refinancing & Development loans
(Club Deal)
Katowice, Poland
October 2011

In a club deal, Hessische Landesbank (Helaba) and pbb are providing a refinancing and development facility to IMMOFINANZ Group for the prime shopping centre, the Silesia City Center, in Katowice, Poland. It is the largest and most modern shopping centre in the dynamic region Upper Silesia. Due to high interest by retailers, the centre was extended from 66,000 m² to 86,000 m² rentable space.

Paris-Bercy Arena
Concession

€ 125 million

Mandated lead arranger
Paris, France
December 2011

pbb closed a senior loan agreement for SAE Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. This company has been the concessionaire of the Bercy Arena in the centre of Paris since 1984. The loan will finance a major refurbishment of the Arena to offer more modularity and a capacity of up to nearly 21,000 seats. The project benefits from strong support by the City of Paris, which is both the grantor of the concession and the majority shareholder of SAE POPB.