Banks

John Feeney, who has led Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking's commercial real estate business for four years, has been promoted to acting head of global corporates, with Madeleine McDougall promoted to acting head of the CRE unit.

Japanese bank Nomura has provided a €104 million loan to European real estate fund manager Aerium to refinance the H20 office building located in Luxembourg.

Natixis and BNP Paribas have written a €250 million loan to finance Data4, a pan-European owner of data centre properties.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and Helaba have written a €225 million loan to refinance debt secured by a 13-strong mixed-use portfolio in the Netherlands.

Jürgen Fenk, one of the best-respected real estate finance leaders in Germany, is to leave his position on Helaba’s board of managing directors next September to pursue other roles in real estate.

ING Real Estate Finance (REF) has appointed Julián Bravo as the head of its Spanish and Portuguese division.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €20 million loan to the Département du Finistère in France to finance the renovation of several infrastructure projects including road networks and colleges.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a total of €120 million ($133.8 million) in loans on the acquisition of ten properties in Western Germany. The lender provided the loans to affiliates of the Catalyst Capital European Property Fund II that purchased the portfolio from TRIUVA (formerly IVG Institutional Funds) and a large German public sector pension scheme.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €100 million loan to German investor TAG Immobilien to refinance a residential property portfolio in Germany.

Aareal Bank has provided a €368 million loan to finance a logistics property portfolio in Germany.