The organizers of the Financial Times and Mergermarket M&A Awards European 2008 have nominated our company for Visegrad Group Financial Advisor of the Year. CAG have been shortlisted among well-known, international advisory firms and investment banks including Rothschild, BNP Paribas, KBC Securities and Deloitte…
The organizers of the Financial Times and Mergermarket M&A Awards European 2008 have nominated our company for Visegrad Group Financial Advisor of the Year.
CAG have been shortlisted among well-known, international advisory firms and investment banks including Rothschild, BNP Paribas, KBC Securities and Deloitte.
“Having received the nomination for such a prestigious award and being shortlisted among international leaders in transaction advisory services makes us very proud and provides us with a massive boost to further develop our skills and expertise” said Edward Daniel MacDonald III, CAG’s Managing Partner and Founder.
“This nomination confirms that as a Central European investment boutique we possess the skills, knowledge and experience which enable us to provide the same quality of services as larger firms with well–known brands. The nomination is a source of motivation for our further development as well as continuous attention for maintaining the highest quality of our services and client satisfaction” said Łukasz Pawłowski, CAG’s Partner.

CAG

CAG provides a wide scope of investment banking services including sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, private equity placements, public-to-private deals, MBOs, raising expansion capital as well as deals in the real estate sector. CAG’s professionals effectively represent their clients in negotiations with private equity houses and multinational companies, both of which have teams of people specialized in buying companies.
Clients of CAG are mostly private equity funds seeking to exit from their investments as well as entrepreneurs looking for the right financial partner.  CAG counts among its clients many of the largest institutional investors in Central Europe, including Inova Capital, Oresa Ventures, AIG, Advent International, BB Investment, MCI Management, Enterprise Investors, Franklin Templeton Investments / Darby, Allied Irish Bank / AIB WBK (now Krokus PE), 3TS and FMO. CAG’s clients also include some of the most successful entrepreneurs in Central Europe, as well as blue chip Polish companies.

CAG successfully markets and sells companies to both international and local blue chip companies. CAG has sold companies to Agora, Berger Paints India, Bull International, Cetelem, Elektrim, GTS Poland, Lafayette-Services Laser, News Corporation, Omnicom, Polkomtel, Randstad International and Vectra.
Since inception in 1999, CAG closed 35 deals with a total value of over EUR 900 million, mostly in Poland but also in Romania and the countries of former Yugoslavia. The CAG team currently counts 14 professionals who are based in two offices (Warsaw and Bucharest).

M&A Awards

The Financial Times and Mergermarket M&A Awards European 2008 (http://www.ftconferenceslive.com/mergermarketeurope) are awarded on an annual basis to the European advisory companies providing private equity, corporate, banking, accountancy, legal and PR services.  The Awards are being held at the year end to ensure that the majority of deals announced are included for consideration.
The selection procedure is a three stage process. At the first stage the firms are identified according to information from the Mergermarket M&A database. In each award category, the firms are shortlisted according to country/region and both the total volume and total value of announced and completed deals in a given year. Only deals with the deal value greater than or equal to EUR 5 million are taken into consideration.
Then the shortlisted firms are invited to send short submissions outlining why their organizations should win the award they have been nominated for.
During the third stage of the selection process an independent judging panel assesses among others the strategic nature of the deals, their complexity and structure as well as their groundbreaking or novel nature. This forms the basis of their final decision in each of the award categories.

The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on 10 December 2008 at Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London.

For further information please contact:
Edward MacDonald, Managing Partner
Tel.: +48 22 53 77 400
email: edward.macdonald@cag.com.pl