Privatizations

As an experienced provider of consultancy in the field of large scale M&A, EEIP offers an adequate financial advisory also by the privatizations of state assets. EEIP is able to provide complex scale of consultant services based on the outstanding business knowledge from more than 80 M&A transactions in the region, the team of experts with strong academic background and the international network of our foreign partners (Raiffeisen Investment, Lazard, WestLB Group, Commerzbank and others).

A strong position of EEIP in the area of privatization consultancy is, among other reasons, given by the experiences with the privatization of petrochemical concern Unipetrol. The sale of Unipetrol has been the third largest privatization in the history of the Czech Republic and EEIP acted as a privatization advisor to the National Property Fund (NPF). EEIP also acted as an advisor in several other privatization tenders.

EEIP was one of the financial advisors of RWE Group during the privatization tender for a dominant gas provider Transgas and its eight distribution companies. The privatization of Trangas is considered to be the largest and the most successful privatization in the history of the Czech Republic.

Beside the preparation of transaction, the valuation of privatization project, the identification of suitable partners and the analyses of potential risks, EEIP also participated in the preparation of tenders for foreign investors according to the international standards and in detailed negotiation of the sale conditions. Furthermore, EEIP offers a complex support by the contract fulfillment monitoring and a consultancy by the resolution of potential problems.

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