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BaltCap-backed Piletilevi Group expands in the CEE region with two significant acquisitions

BaltCap portfolio company Piletilevi Group, the largest ticket sales platform in the Baltic states, has recently announced two substantial acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Piletilevi will obtain an 80.2% stake in the leading Romanian ticketing company Bilete.ro and an 80% stake in the Czech Republic’s most visited ticketing platform GoOut.net.

Livonia Partners to acquire Santa Monica Networks in Latvia and Lithuania together with management

Livonia Partners to acquire Santa Monica Networks in Latvia and Lithuania together with management

BaltCap increased its ownership in TREV-2 by acquiring an additional 38% stake from East Capital Explorer AB for €5.7 million

BaltCap acquires majority in TREV-2.

BaltCap invests in leading Estonian classified portals auto24 and Kuldne Börs

Baltic private equity house BaltCap together with management acquires 100% of Sanoma Baltics AS, the operator of Estonian online classified sites auto24 and Kuldne Börs from Sanoma Media Finland OY.

BaltCap exits gas infrastructure and trading company Energate

26 October 2016

BaltCap, the largest private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltics, exited gas infrastructure and trading company Energate. The company was acquired by a group of private investors.

Invesco Finance (Wellman OÜ) sold its majority 70% stake in consumer credit holding company Friendly Finance to 4finance Holding S.A., Luxembourg, at €16M total company value.

Established in 2010, online consumer credit company Friendly Finance, belonging to Estonian investment banking group Invesco Finance, was acquired by 4finance Holding S.A. - Europe´s largest online consumer lending group, at the total company valuation of € 16M.

ESTVCA Legal Committee publishes 2016 M&A Deal Points Study

The survey analysed 168 Baltic M&A transactions done in the period of July 2013 to December 2015, a record number of deals ever viewed by the study. The most active economic sectors in the Baltic M&A market were construction and real estate, technology, financial services, and energy and utilities. The value of a typical Baltic M&A transaction remains in the EUR 1-5 million bracket.

ASI's portfolio company Wahanda raises another €20,6m and acquiers Germany's Salonmeister

13 October 2014

ASI's portfolio company Wahanda, a health, beauty and wellness marketplace & community, announced the acquisition of its German equivalent Salonmeister. It also raised further €20,6m of growth funding from RGIP, Fidelity Growth Partners and Lepe Partners.