M&A

Țuca Zbârcea &
Asociații assisted McDonald’s in a complex transaction finalised
on 22 January 2016 whereby the shares of McDonald’s System of
Romania, Inc., a Delaware company which owns its Romanian subsidiary
were sold to Premier Capital SRL, a subsidiary of the Maltese company
Premier Capital plc. The transaction also included a franchise
pursuant to which the former Romanian subsidiary of McDonald’s will
continue to operate the restaurants and use the McDonald’s brand, a
developmental licensee concept previously implemented by McDonald’s
with Premier Capital group of companies in several other countries
(Malta, Greece and the Baltic countries).
The team of lawyers
at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații involved in the project included
Cornel Popa (Partner) and Andreea Lisievici (Managing Associate), who
have assisted McDonald’s in the negotiation, execution and closing
of the transaction documents.
The buyers, Premier Capital and Daniel Boaje, were represented in this transaction by Musat & Asociatii...more »

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Polish juice manufacturing group Maspex
Wadowice has acquired Romanian mineral water producer Rio Bucovina,
the transaction being subject to approval by the Competition Council.
Rio Bucovina is the second largest
manufacturer of water in terms of...more »

Investment fund Abris Capital grows it's investment portfolio in Romania with the acquisition of tissue paper manufacturer MG-Tec. The transaction is subject to sell a stake in the paper division of MG TEC Group, which includes companies Pehart Tec, Metalicplas Distribution, Metalicplas Impex and Samus Constructii....more »

Dentons assisted AmRest in acquiring the two Starbucks franchises in Romania and Bulgaria. For AmRest this acquisition is the entryway into the Romanian market – the second in size in Central Europe - and will strengthen its leadership position in the region. AmRest will now operate 18 Starbucks coffee shops in Romania, and 5 in Bulgaria. ...more »

Law firm PeliFilip assisted Tiriac Holdings Ltd. on the sale of the 45% stake in UniCredit Tiriac Bank to the bank's majority shareholder, the Italian group UniCredit. This represents the largest transaction of the year in the banking sector. ...more »

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications team of Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte has assisted George Butunoiu, the owner of Restograf.ro in the sale of all rights of the website to Skin Media, Nikon's distributor in Romania....more »

Romanian law firm Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen assisted Lafarge in connection with the sale of its domestic assets as part of the 6.5 billion euro global transaction with Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) in the context of Lafarge and Holcim merger announced in April 2014....more »

The global M&A market sees its best year since the financial crisis, deal values in 2014 being in line to top levels not seen since 2007, according to a preview of international law firm Clifford Chance’s latest Global M&A Trends report....more »

Banca Transilvania has reached an agreement to acquire the entire shareholding of Volksbank Romania (VBRO) from Austria’s Volksbank AG, Groupe BPCE (Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne), DZ Bank AG and WGZ Bank AG, states a press release of the Romanian bank....more »