Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), Germany's largest public pension group, acquired, through a fund managed by Universal-Investment (UI), a real estate portfolio comprising of 14 mainly commercial properties in Switzerland, partially financed by a banking syndicate. With this transaction, BVK enters the Swiss real estate market.

Bär & Karrer acted as legal advisor to BVK and UI in this transaction. The team included Corrado Rampini, Christian Kunz (both M&A, Real Estate), Lukas Roesler (Financing), Grégory Pauli and Lorena Montinero (both Real Estate).