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Emerging Europe M&A Report 2015/16

19/01/2016

We are pleased to bring you Emerging Europe M&A Report 2015/2016, published by CMS in cooperation with EMIS.

The fifth edition of the report pulls together a list of the biggest M&A transactions in 15 countries across the CEE/SEE region, provides commentary on what happened in 2015, and makes some predictions on where to expect deals in 2016.

It also includes insight from William Wells, Executive Vice-Chairman, Central and Eastern Europe, Rothschild, who oversees the group’s business in the region, as well as special features on the commercial real estate sector and capital markets developments in CEE.

Report highlights:

  • CEE was relatively flat with a 3% decline in announced deals, but a sharper 15% decline in total value, while the 2015 global M&A market saw more deals with more value than any year since 2007.
  • Investors no longer regard Central and Eastern Europe as a coherent investment area as countries in the region present increasingly different risk profiles.
  • Private equity fund investment went up 16%. The largest transactions predominantly attracted US and UK investors.
  • M&A announced by US-based companies and funds increases by 61%. CEE also saw more interest from German and UK investors.
  • Manufacturing was the most targeted sector, followed by Telecoms & IT and Real Estate.
  • Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina saw an increase in deals – both in value and volume – from 2014.

We have received excellent feedback from our clients and the market about this report over the last five years and hope that you will find this year’s edition equally useful.

Please do get in touch to let us know what you thought of the report or if you have any questions you would like to discuss with our CEE M&A team.

You can view the report online or download it in PDF format below.

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Authors

Portrait ofHelen Rodwell
Helen Rodwell
Partner
Prague
Portrait ofRadivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
Partner
Vienna
Portrait ofAtanas Bangachev
Atanas Bangachev
Partner
Sofia
Portrait ofGentscho Pavlov
Gentscho Pavlov
Partner
Sofia
Portrait ofGregor Famira
Gregor Famira
Partner
Vienna
Portrait ofAnikó Kircsi
Anikó Kircsi
Partner
Budapest
Portrait ofMilica Popović
Milica Popović
Partner
Belgrade
Portrait ofHorea Popescu
Horea Popescu
Managing Partner
Bucharest
Portrait ofPeter Šimo
Peter Šimo
Of Counsel
Bratislava
Portrait ofDöne Yalçın
Döne Yalçın
Partner
Istanbul
Portrait ofGraham Conlon
Graham Conlon
Partner
Abu Dhabi
Wojciech Koczara
Michał Pawłowski
Rafał Woźniak
Iva Cucllari
Marco Lacaita
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
David Butts
Gábor Gelencsér
Dariusz Greszta
Marek Sawicki
Vladimir Zenin
Aleš Lunder
John Fitzpatrick
Johannes Trenkwalder
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