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If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact Orson Francescone at
ofrancescone@euromoneyplc.com,  tel: +44 20 7779 8039



Platinum Sponsor

UniCredit is a global financial institution with strong roots in 22 European countries as well as representative offices in 27 other international markets, with over 10,000 branches and more than 166,000 employees. In Central & Eastern Europe, UniCredit operates the largest international banking network with around 4,000 branches and outlets in 19 countries.

UniCredit's Corporate & Investment Banking provides companies, from small and medium enterprises to multinational and institutional clients, access to the largest network of banks in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to branches in major financial centers worldwide. The successful collaboration between our network’s relationship managers and specialists in our product lines Financing & Advisory, Markets, Leasing, and Global Transaction Banking enables UniCredit to respond promptly to our clients’ entrepreneurial requirements. UniCredit's Corporate & Investment Banking supports the growth and internationalization of corporate and institutional clients of UniCredit Group, creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.

Within UniCredit Financing & Advisory, Financial Sponsor Solutions has the prime responsibility for all lending and lending related activities to companies and their subsidiaries that are controlled by private equity firms. It is also responsible for co-ordinating delivery of other UniCredit Group products to private equity firms and their controlled businesses.

Financial Sponsor Solutions has a dedicated Central & Eastern Europe team headed up by David Vials who is based in Vienna. This team forms part of the wider Financial Sponsor Solutions team which consists of over 85 dedicated professionals located in London, Milan, Munich, Vienna and Warsaw. UniCredit combines Western European deal infrastructure with unrivalled CEE market expertise which is reflected in our acting as MLA and Bookrunner in the three largest LBOs in Central & Eastern Europe and in the first ever Russian and Serbian private equity driven acquisitions.

UniCredit has a market leading position in this specialised lending and advisory area which is reflected in the recently published independent league tables for 2009:

  • #1 MLA sponsor driven business in UniCredit Group’s core regions of CEE, Germany and Italy (source: Dealogic)
  • #2 Financial Advisor to European buyout deals in 2009 (source: Mergermarket)
  • #3 Bookrunner sponsor driven business in EMEA in 2009 (source: Thomson Reuters)

White & Case is a leading global law firm with 200 lawyers in Asia, and 35 offices across 24 countries globally.  We advise on virtually every area of law that affects cross-border business, and work with some of the world's most well-established companies, including two-thirds of the Global Fortune 100, as well as start-up visionaries, governments and state-owned entities.

Our banking and restructuring team has worked on numerous landmark restructurings and insolvencies during each market downturn of the past few decades. This experience coupled with on-the-ground support across the globe has earned us a reputation for guiding clients through complex, multijurisdictional distressed situations.  We offer together the five core disciplines that affect restructurings – banking, capital markets, insolvency, litigation, and private equity – in an integrated approach key to anticipating clients' needs and understanding the full picture of their options.



Gold Sponsor


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Silver Sponsor

Erste Group is one of the leading financial service providers in CEE, serving more than 16 million clients in 3,000 branches in eight countries, such as Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Erste Group operates successfully in the fastest growing economies in the region, aiming to provide its customers with a high standard of personal service and a comprehensive range of financial service products.

Erste Group´s Group Corporate and Investment Banking (GCIB) Division founded in July 2007  aims to leverage opportunities in the corporate environment in CEE on the basis of a divisionalized approach with a mix of industry and product expertise allied to local knowledge and experience. Group Large Corporate Banking is responsible for all coverage related issues in all industries and is organized throughout Erste Group’s geography. 

Corporate and Acquisition Finance is part of the core investment bank functions within GCIB with teams working in Prague and Vienna, serving financial and strategic investors as well as corporate clients through dedicated sponsor and corporate coverage teams.

M&A, ECM and Infrastructure Finance teams are organized globally as well with teams in various parts of the region.


Bronze Sponsor



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Internet Securities, Inc. (trading as ISI Emerging Markets), was founded in 1994 and acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in 1999. It delivers hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 13,000 local and global publications.  ISI Emerging Markets subscribers include top investment banks, corporations, law firms, consultants, investment and insurance companies, universities and libraries, multilateral organizations, and others.  In addition to worldwide headquarters in New York and European headquarters in London, clients are served through 28 offices in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

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