Raiffeisen Investment Information

Raiffeisen Investment is Emerging Europe's leading corporate finance advisory / M&A firm. It is a part of the Raiffeisen Banking Group, Austria's biggest banking group. From it's headquarters in Vienna it manages a strong network of subsidiaries with offices in Vienna, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Podgorica, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb. The team consists of around 100 professionals with a range of background experiences in Austria, CEE and the European financial centres London and Frankfurt.. Since it’s foundation in the early 1990s Raiffeisen Investment has successfully advised on more than 500 transactions in the fields of M&A, privatisation and related financial advisory services ranging from € 10 m to € 3 bn. The value added of the local teams in CSEE/CIS countries plays a crucial role in efficiently advising on M&A transactions in the region. Raiffeisen Investments’s industry teams are in daily contact with the major players and decision makers in their sectors. Recently Raiffeisen Investment has been involved in a number of high-profile transactions including the acquisition of Volia Cable by Providence in the Ukraine, the sale of NURTS the Bulgarian towers operator as well as the secondary sale of the largest Bulgarian fixed line and mobile operator to AIG. In 2008, Raiffeisen Investment has been awarded “Central Europe M&A Adviser of the Year 2008" by Acquisitions Monthly, a Thomson publication.