09.23.2024

Private equity investment in Romania stood at merely EUR130 million or 0.041% of the GDP in 2023, ZF has calculated from ROCA-supplied data. more

08.12.2024

Private equity (PE) firms in Central Europe (CE) are overwhelmingly confident that 2024 will be a good year for investments, according to 84% of the participants to the latest Deloitte CE Private more

08.07.2023

The Romanian private equity market has kept a good pace in the first half of 2023, seeing several notable transactions such as Innova Capital’s takeover of NETOPIA Group or Value4Capital’s more

05.10.2023

The Romanian private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) market significantly lags behind Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the entire European industry in terms of fundraising, with a total of more

11.04.2021

Verdino Green Foods, a Romanian producer of meat alternative products using pea protein, has sold a minority stake to private equity firm BlackPeak Capital via BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity more

03.01.2021

Six private equity firms have bought seven private healthcare providers in Romania in the past two years, betting EUR100 million to EUR150 million on them, according to ZF estimates. more

02.02.2021

Private equity firm Morphosis Capital hopes to close two or three new deals in 2021, having allocated the same budget as last year, EUR10 million to EUR20 million. more

01.30.2020

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09.20.2019

Private equity firms got EUR90 million from the exits from Romania in 2018, where they sold four companies, which means an average of EUR22.5 million per deal, ZF has calculated based on the data in more

09.11.2019

Private equity firm Morphosis Capital established by a team of four Romanians experienced on foreign markets, has bought a minority stake in Romanian-held operational process automation company more

08.22.2019

Private equity firms invested EUR2.7 billion in the region last year, and Romania got only 11.5% of the money or EUR311 million. Poland and Czech Republic, on the other hand, got more than one quarter more

02.19.2019

The acquisitions made by private equity funds in Romania reached record highs in 2016 and 2017, but fell slightly in 2018. However, the forecast for 2019 is optimistic, considering that large private more

02.04.2019

Enterprise Investors, one of the oldest actors on Romania’s private equity market, is considering resuming acquisitions in Romania after a three-year hiatus. more

10.02.2018

Private equity firms collected EUR133 million for the companies in Romania they sold last year, which is the highest amount in four years and double the 2014 and 2015 levels. more

07.06.2018

Local banks are not interested in buying other banks, which have market shares of about 1%. The chances of a big bank coming to Romania are slim, but private equity firms can come with a new more

01.11.2018

Five private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe have been active on the Romanian market in the past year, starting talks, making acquisitions worth millions, tens or even hundreds of millions more

09.25.2017

Private equity firms are paying more and more attention to the deals in Romania, going for industries they have experience in and for new sectors seeing growth. They spend EUR400 million to EUR700 more

01.05.2017

Private equity firms spent about EUR1 billion last year, a record amount for Romania and five times higher than in 2015. Most money went to retail, real estate, industry and consumer goods sector more

10.20.2016

Four private equity firms have reached the second round of the takeover of the almost 460 supermarket and convenience store chain Profi. more

03.21.2016

Private equity firm Enterprise Investors says it has an about EUR100 million acquisition budget earmarked for Central and Eastern Europe including Romania and the entrepreneurial businesses are the more

09.25.2015

Spanish-held private equity firm GED Capital, whose capitalization stands at EUR150 million, is looking at new acquisitions in the IT, tourism and energy sectors, but is also considering potential more

06.14.2015

Investments of private equity funds in Romania grew 11% in 2014, at EUR78 million, according to the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). more

06.11.2015

The Romanian entrepreneurial class has learned its lesson from the crisis, and businesspeople have become wiser than they were in 2007-2008, so they are now approaching development or internal more

02.20.2015

Regina Maria, a major player on Romania’s private healthcare market, is likely to change its owner this year in a deal likely to head toward nine figures in euros. more

02.02.2015

Private equity funds operating in Romania mull clinching at least one acquisition in 2015 and are eyeing fields such as retail, healthcare, banking or IT and some of them are even considering exits. more