In 2018, provided and participated in the following noteworthy transactions in CEE:
• €41.4 million investment facility to companies owned by a professional private real estate investor and managed by development and investment company Amesbury s.r.o., to refinance the Zlicin and Chrastany business parks near Prague.
• A medium-term acquisition and re-financing loan facility to Caerus IM for Futurama Business Park located in Prague 8, Czech Republic on behalf of and together with, a private separate account client. The amount of the facility is undisclosed.
• An investment facility of €74 million to companies owned by Newbridge for the acquisition of three shopping malls in Poland, namely Bielawy in Toruń, Guliwer in Łódź and Czyżyny in Kraków.
• A €100 million investment facility, together together with Helaba, for Globalworth Poland Real Estate (GPRE) to finance four office properties in Poland.
Name of company
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Department head or senior representative in CEE, real estate
Dieter Knittel
Department head or senior representative profile
Dieter Knittel is Head of International Real Estate Finance for Central and Eastern Europe at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. The regional focus is on Poland, Czech Republic, Slavkia, Hungary and Romania. Dieter has been active in the CEE market for more than twenty years, including five years based in Warsaw between 1997 and 2002 as Head of Credit and Senior Risk Management
Short description of the company, including which sectors you operate in CEE
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is a specialist bank for commercial real estate finance and public investment finance. Its core business is lending: the bank has an important role to play in supplying credit to the real estate industry and supports the public sector with financing for projects and measures designed to improve public infrastructure.
pbb offers optimal funding solutions for professional national and international real estate clients. Among the markets in CEE the bank focuses in real estate financing on Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia and selectively looks at Bucharest, Romania.
pbb also has many years’ experience in public investment finance and is one of the few providers of European-wide financial services in this area.
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