Frank­furt a.Main — The inter­na­tio­nal law firm Good­win has provi­ded legal and tax advice to Slate Asset Manage­ment L.P. on the acqui­si­tion of two addi­tio­nal food port­fo­lios in Germany. The port­fo­lios consist of a total of 37 super­mar­kets and retail parks in eleven German states with a leasable area of around 75,000 square meters. Slate is acqui­ring the port­fo­lios through its subsi­dia­ries in two asset deals. The purcha­ses are the seventh and eighth package purcha­ses in 2019.

Slate Asset Manage­ment L.P. is a leading real estate invest­ment plat­form with more than six billion CAD in assets under manage­ment. Since ente­ring the market in Decem­ber 2016, Slate has made 15 port­fo­lio acqui­si­ti­ons in Germany. The port­fo­lio under manage­ment in Germany now compri­ses 249 proper­ties with a gross leasable area of around 432,000 square meters. Tenants are predo­mi­nantly large food retail­ers such as Edeka, REWE, Lidl and Aldi.

Good­win has advi­sed Slate Asset Manage­ment on all tran­sac­tions in the German market over the past three years, with Frank­furt real estate part­ner Marc Bohne and senior asso­ciate Matthias Rüdt from Collen­berg as lead partners.

Advi­sor Slate Asset Manage­ment L.P.: Good­win, Frank­furt a.M.
Marc Bohne, Photo (Part­ner), Matthias Rüdt von Collen­berg (Senior Asso­ciate, both Lead, Real Estate), Heiko Penn­dorf (Part­ner, Tax), Martin Prokoph (Part­ner, Private Equity), Andreas Mallin (Coun­sel, Finance), Felix Krue­ger (Coun­sel, Tax), Chris­to­pher Jeschor (Asso­ciate) and Nicole Schlink (Senior Para­le­gal, both Real Estate)