Milan Prée

Milan is a real estate associate in the Paris office.

He specialises in French real estate and construction law, with a particular focus on cross-border real estate transactions and financing, as well as the development of wind and solar farm projects.

Work highlights

His recent significant experience includes:

• Verkor Dunkirk Gigafactory: advising the European Investment Bank and the commercial lenders through the financial close of the €1.3bn financing of the construction of Verkor's first Gigafactory of electric vehicle batteries located in Dunkirk, France, which will have an initial production capacity of 16 GWh per year.

• Global investment banks: advising on a repurchase transaction with Ares Management, in relation to Queensgate Investments' €410m refinancing of their Generator Hostels portfolio across Europe.

• Ardian: advising in connection with its first investment in self-storage through the acquisition of the company Costockage, a marketplace allowing professionals and individuals to rent storage units from established operators and/or unused storage space from private individuals.
• Helexia: advising this leading energy transition and energy-efficiency services provider across Europe on the financing of a pan-EU portfolio of solar PV and energy efficiency projects (8 countries / c.600 projects).

• A leading global investment firm: advising on its senior term facilities relating to the financing of the acquisition of nine logistics properties located in France and the capital expenditure to be spent on the Properties
• The National Pension Service: advising this Korean public pension fund represented by DWS Group on the acquisition of a prime logistic platform, in Le Coudray-Montceaux from the developer Télamon

Milan graduated cum laude from the Sciences Po Paris Law School (Master in Business Law) and holds a Master’s degree from Université Paris-Dauphine (Master in Real Estate Finance).