Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 Winners Edition

Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2015 www.finance-monthly.com 21 M A & AWARDS 2015 Corporate Finance Firm of the Year Roman Göd and Gregor Nischer Founding Partners of MP Corporate Finance GmbH goed@mpcf.net or nischer@mpcf.net | www.mpcf.net Vienna Office: Schottenring 12, 1010, Vienna, Austria Frankfurt Office: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49, D-60308 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Warsaw Office: Florianska 8/2 str. Warsaw, PL-00-113 Warszawa, Poland Tel: +43 1 470 23 88 , +49-69 50956 5620 , +48-22-528 69-81 FIRM PROFILE MP Corporate Finance is a pure M&A advisory firm founded in the early 1990s. The turn of the millennium proved to be a pivotal and prosperous point for MP Corporate Finance, as the beginnings of sector specialisation enabled the firm to advance its industrial specific advisory expertise to the respective growth regions. The company has since evolved into one of the leading European mid-market M&A industry experts advising on over 600 mandates globally on grounds of its industrial specialization. MP Corporate Finance builds itself upon deep knowledge within specific sectors. The company’s uniqueness stems from decades of strong in-depth focus within the Electronic, Plastic/Packaging and Metal industries, which has benefited MP Corporate Finance in understanding cross-sector and value chain transformations. Specialism has been enabled by the evermore overlapping area of manufacturing services and the automotive industry, a feature the company strongly differentiates itself upon and which has attracted several US clients in mandating our trusted expertise. Business Services, Industrial Plant ConstructionandHealthcareare adjoining branches established in recent years to complement and strengthen the fundamental specialization of industrial M&A activities. Moreover, previous mandates and transactions, have provided valuable experience in understanding specific sector dynamics, key market players and performance evolution that enables the MP Corporate Finance sector teams to find the optimal strategic fit between seller and buyer. Customers from all industry levels nationally and internationally maintain trust in MPCF’s competence, which focuses on providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and recapitalization advisory services. The diversified and dedicated international teams are able to provide proficient expertise to execute cross- border transactions within specific industry subsectors. Over the past two decades MP Corporate Finance had the opportunity to advise several notable clients across a range of industry sectors. A recent transaction involved the Dutch publicly listed electronics manufacturing services provider Neways Electronics International N.V. that was looking to gain significant exposure and access to German Industrial and Automotive customers. Through the acquisition of the Riesa-based BuS Elektronik GmbH, Neways Electronics International N.V. achieved a total combined annual sales of approximately EUR 400 Mio. and established a significant footprint in Germany, combined with centralized sourcing and low-cost manufacturing capabilities in Asia. Furthermore, a long-term client that MP Corporate Finance advises frequently is the Lenzing Group, an international group of companies with total annual sales of approximately EUR 2 billion, which is generated from the production of textile fibers, non-woven fabrics, pulp, thermoplastics, polytetrafluoroethylene and acrylic fibers. In 2013 Lenzing Plastics, a part of the Lenzing Group, which contributed towards approximately 10% of the group’s annual sales was divested in efforts to further concentrate on the groups core business of manufacturing manmade cellulose fibres (90% of sales). The challenging carve-out was lead by MP Corporate Finance and was sold to a consortium of financial investors for a transaction value of € 90m. Following the efficient and structured sell-side process, MP Corporate Finance was since mandated by the Lenzing Group to dispose of their acrylic fiber business, sheet metal business, mechatronics unit and automation & robotics business, which have been all successfully sold within the past 12 months under the strategic advisory of MP Corporate Finance. In the past 3 years MP Corporate Finance successfully closed more than 50 transactions with an accumulated transaction value of more than EUR 1 billion. MP Corporate Finance’s current year’s business performance has exceeded forecasts given that 15 deals were executed within the first half of 2015. Over 85% of these deals were pan-European cross-border transactions. Subsequently, MP Corporate Finance is presently working towards executing 28 transactions with an estimated transaction value of more than EUR 2.5 billion, which is set to break the company’s performance record for the current year and the consecutive year. AUSTRIA