A Romanian subsidiary of Daimler Mobility Services, owner of mytaxi application and one of Europe's largest e-hailing company, announced the full acquisition of Clever Taxi application, thus becoming the 11th European country in which mytaxi operates. Clever Taxi was launched in 2010 by Mihai Rotaru and Alex Dumitru and operates in 20 cities in Romania with 17,000 registered drivers and over 600,000 users. ...more »

Following this transaction, which was completed on Wednesday 19 April, Octavian Radu acquired the  control over Postmaster SRL, a former subsidiary of the Österreichische Post AG Group, respectively on Total Post Mail Services and Total Post Services SRL, subsidiaries of Zoto Investments BV....more »

Romanian M&A reached an eight-year high in deal volume with 45 deals, a spike of 41% year- on-year in volume, and a 60% jump in value with a combined deal value of €1.99bn shows a study released by Wolf Theiss and Merger Market.  The strong performance in 2016 came in spite of the political uncertainty generated by a parliamentary election in December, an indicator of the country’s growth potential, whichever party is in power. In fact, expansionist scal policy has played a central role in accelerating domestic demand, a key growth driver. A value-added tax cut from 24% to 20% in 2016 will be followed by a reduction to 19% in 2017, while there have been three increases in the minimum wage in 18 months....more »

Mușat & Asociații assisted Mecaplast Group, one of the most important car components manufacturers in the world, for the purpose of expanding its business in Romania, by means of a „brownfield”-type investment.  The value of the project reaches approximately EUR 10 million and involves the inauguration of a plant in Romania, between Pitești and Mioveni, in 2017, destined to the manufacturing of car components for the new Duster. The investment in Romania involves all the industrial means necessary to develop new businesses, especially for engine parts and interior and exterior painted parts/elements....more »

Romanian private healthcare services market leader MedLife continues it's expansion with the acquisition of Anima clinics network, the company announced. The Anima network consists of six clinics, one laboratory and had a turnover of 5,2 million euro in 2016. ...more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised Raiffeisen Bank and Wood & Company Financial Services as managers on Med Life’s IPO, the biggest private IPO in Romania. The RTPR Allen & Overy team was led by Costin Tărăcilă (Managing Partner) and Loredana Chitu (Boeru) (Counsel) and further comprised associate Tudor Năftică and junior associate Mihnea Radu....more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised the Japanese group Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. on the acquisition of Ursus Brewery, one of the largest beer producers in Romania. The transaction in which Asahi group purchased the SAB Miller beer producers in the region covers five markets – Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – and is estimated to be the largest M&A transaction in Romania this year. The seller is Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV. Suciu Popa was the local legal adviser for the seller, Ursus Brewery....more »

Musat & Asociatii has assisted Emerson SRL, a subsidiary in Romania of Emerson Electric on the separation of the activity of Emerson Network Power toprepare it's transfer to the US investment fund Platinum Equity . The transaction was conducted globally and has a value of around 4 billion USD. Emerson reported sales of $ 4.4 billion globally for the Network Power business during 2016. ...more »

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised the private equity fund Enterprise Investors in relation to the sale of Profi supermarket chain to Mid Europa Partners, in the largest deal ever completed by a private equity fund in Romania and the largest deal in the retail sector in the country’s history. The transaction is subject to approval by the Competition Counsel. ...more »

MJ Maillis, the company known for industrial packaging solutions and complete end of line solutions, sold its production facility located on the Bucuresti – Târgoviște road to the plastics manufacturer Prodplast SA in a transaction of over 1.5 million EUR. The seller was assisted in this transaction by law firm Peli Filip. The assistance included organizing the due diligence analysis on the vendor side, independent due diligence investigations, negotiations and assisting with all other transactional aspects....more »