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:
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