Dentons represents AFI Europe on refinancing of AFI Palace Cotroceni in Romania – EuropaProperty

Dentons’ Global Real Estate team acted for AFI Europe on the €220 million refinancing of AFI Palace Cotroceni located in Bucharest.

The negotiations of the transaction, which may be the largest scale financing transaction in the region during the last few years, with a consortium of four banks (Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Erste Group
Bank AG, Raiffeisen Bank International AG and Raiffeisen Bank SA), was completed in record time and is considered by AFI Europe and Dentons a major achievement.

The award winning AFI Palace Cotroceni, the largest shopping centre in Romania, combines shopping with entertainment and is a landmark asset to Bucharest. The centre is owned, managed and operated by AFI Europe, a leading real estate investor, developer and operator.

AFI Europe is a long-standing client of Dentons. Evan Lazar, Co-Chair of Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group said, “We have advised AFI Europe for more than 10 years across a number of jurisdictions in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania is again attracting investor interest in 2014, and AFI Europe is well positioned to take advantage of this opportunity. This transaction was another opportunity for the Global Real Estate team at Dentons to provide added value service for AFI.”