While organic business growth opportunities are becoming increasingly limited due to market saturation, M&A transactions are becoming a powerful, and at times, simply irreplaceable instrument for companies to achieve aggressive and rapid expansion, i.e. those which have set themselves the task of boosting their market cap. The Russian market, which, in many sectors, still remains quite fragmented, offers vast opportunities for such transactions.

On the other hand, selling an equity position may enable a company to raise the proceeds required for its development and/or to find a partner which has key capabilities or resources.

OTKRITIE Bank offers its clients support and preparation in engineering a broad range of transactions involving the shareholders’ equity of small and mid-cap companies, such as:

• Selling minority shares/stakes to a strategic or financial investor;
• Selling a controlling block of shares/stake to a strategic investor;
• Reorganizing companies via mergers, acquisitions, and switching to a single share;
• Taking over publicly traded small- and mid-cap companies;
• Drawing in a strategic investor through a joint venture.

Company buyout by management