NEW YORK CITY-Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, a Swedish bank headquartered in Stockholm, has taken an additional 4,000 square feet of space at 245 Park Ave. The bank has occupied the Brookfield Office Properties building since the 1980s, says Aron Schreier, a Cassidy Turley managing director and principal who repped the bank in the deal.

Schreier was assisted in the lease negotiations by Jonathan Schindler, a senior managing director and principal at the firm. Duncan McCuaig represented Brookfield in-house.

“They’re relocating from the 42nd to the 33rd floor,” Schreier says, “and they’ve been in the building since the 1980s, so this has been a long term relationship they’ve had with the landlord there.”

Unlike many European banks, hard hit by the debt crisis that has consumed much of the region, Sweden’s banking sector, massive in relation to the country’s GDP, has remained relatively unscathed.

Schreier points out that the banking environment there is “very different than other areas in Europe.”

As for the space in 245 Park Ave., SEB has “an architect and a project management team that’s helping them through” the move within the building,” Schreier says. “What they’re trying to do is emulate some of the standards and finishes that they have in Stockholm and in other offices around the world to have a more consistent look.”

The asking rent was not disclosed and the lease is for a term of ten years and ten months.