WOOD & Company is well known for the high quality of its investment banking services. Clients value our ability to combine impartial advice with effective solutions, as well as our long-term relationships with local corporations, institutions and local and international investors, nurtured over many years. Our highly-respected team of professionals offers a full range of investment banking services, including privatisation advisory, M&A advisory, initial and secondary public equity offerings, financial restructuring and debt funding advisory.
The firm is consistently credited with closing complex transactions often involving business overlooked by the larger investment banking firms. WOOD & Company has participated in a wide range of corporate finance transactions in the CEE region over the years and the firm has also acted on behalf of state authorities and blue chip international corporations in a number of the region's high profile transactions.
Team members are highly experienced, with deep roots in Emerging Europe and unrivaled knowledge of their markets. Members of the team have executed a wide array of high profile transactions across Emerging Europe in the past few years and have had a very significant cumulative market share in the most active placement market, Poland.
IB team 30 |
Bratislava - 11
Bucharest - 2
London - 3
Prague - 7Warsaw - 5
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Sales, Sales Trading & Execution 22 |
London - 2
New York - 1*
Prague - 9Warsaw - 4
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Research 19 |
London - 6
Prague - 8
Warsaw - 5
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* in association with Brasil Plural |
WOOD & Company is one of the best-positioned investment banks to execute Equity Capital Markets deals across the Emerging Europe. The firm has been gaining its enviable regional ECM experience since late-1990s when it managed and co-managed a large number of public offerings in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. It has transformed into a CEE powerhouse in late 2010. WOOD & Company has an unique track record of advising and executing Initial Public Offerings, fully marketed secondary offerings & sell downs, accelerated & reverse bookbuilds secondary / dual listing and buybacks. We have consistently demonstrated the ability to outplace other internationally oriented institutions, including in large-scale IPOs and ABBs accessing demand from all relevant geographies.
The last years saw WOOD & Company act as bookrunner in a number of sell downs, advising and executing sales for the EBRD, Fondul Proprietatea, the Polish State Treasury, the Romanian government as well as various private equity funds and corporates.
WOOD & Company supports its clients with active secondary equity trading, consistent research coverage and active communication with key local and international institutional investors. Our wide-ranging credentials prove our ability to manage successfully virtually any transaction and communicate the process effectively with international and regional institutions.
David joined WOOD&Co. in 2001. He has 16 years' experience in corporate finance and capital markets advisory. He specialises in debt and equity capital market transactions, including IPOs, SPOs, listings, share buybacks and takeover, bids, and M&A selected transactions: VLP, RWE Grid holding, HOB CerTec, Sanofi, NWR, WARIMPEX, Zentiva, ORCO, ČEZ, SMVaK, TV Prima and Telefonica.
Miloš joined WOOD&Co. in 2008. He has 10 years' experience in investment banking, energy, utilities, telecommunications, engineering and the food industry. Clients and transactions he has been involved with include: Macquarie, Towercom, RWE Grid Holding, MasokombinátPlzeň, FVE Czech Novum Financing and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction.
Peter joined WOOD&Co. in 2006. He has 11 years' experience in investment banking and financial services, real estate, engineering industries, energy, waste management and construction, as well as private placements and bond issues. Clients and transactions he has been involved with include: SATPO, Discovery Group, Real Prag, Fincentrum, TERMIZO, MVVEnergie, Window Holding and Warburg Pincus.
Ondřej joined WOOD&Co. in 2008. He has over 9 years' experience in investment banking, financial services, media, food & beverage, transportation, healthcare, real estate and engineering. He has worked with VLP, Fincentrum, HOB CerTec, GIP, Škoda Power, Warimpex and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, among others.
Barbora joined WOOD&Co. in 2012 as a member of investment banking team. Her experience is in in telecommunications, media, energy, utilities and real estate. Over the years, she has been involved in deal origination, financial modelling, valuations, due diligence coordination, buy-side/sell-side advisory mandates, bond emissions and private placements.
Oliver joined WOOD&Co. in 2013 as a member of the investment banking team, with experience in technology, engineering, real estate and education. He has been involved in deal origination, financial modelling, valuations, due diligence coordination, and buy-side/sell-side advisory mandates in general.
Zina has been a member of WOOD&Co.’s investment banking team since 2016, bringing with her a wealth of experience in the technology, entertainment, energy, utilities and real estate sectors. Zina is involved in deal origination, financial modelling and valuations, and financial advisory services. Prior to WOOD&Co., she worked for PwC Audit and PPF Banka.
Martin (re)joined WOOD&Co. in February 2017. After leaving WOOD&Co.’s Investment Banking team in late-2008, Martin worked at Czech Export Bank (lastly as Director of Structured Finance), where he was responsible primarily for complex large-scale export and project finance transactions, especially in Turkey, the Balkan region, and the Russian Federation. Following this, Martin joined Sberbank CZ as Senior Banker – Team Leader for Top Corporations.
WOOD & Company has incomparable experience with complex M&A deals for domestic, regional and international, strategic and financial investors. The company regularly advises on complex M&A transactions involving negotiations with regulators and state authorities. WOOD & Company has been involved in almost all major Czech and Slovak privatisation projects, including the successful privatisation of Český Telecom, where WOOD & Company successfully advised Telefonica on the acquisition of a 51% stake in Český Telecom, including the subsequent mandatory buyout.
WOOD & Company has an excellent record in securing complex acquisition and project financing for corporate clients, leveraging on our close, long-term relationships with local and regional banks at both senior executive and operational levels.
WOOD & Co is the sole member firm of Oaklins (www.oaklins.com) for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Oaklins is one of the largest and most experienced global mid-market M&A and corporate finance advisory firms, with a strong industry focus across 16 sectors and 60 offices in all the main financial centers of the world. With more than 700 professionals globally, Oaklins member firms have closed over 1,500 transactions in the past five years, of which ca. 50% were cross-border.
We have a range of investment instruments that five our clients access to non-listed investment opportunities in Emerging Europe. These are usually issued in the form of a warrant, which is listed on a western stock exchange and quoted on a daily basis (prices available on Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.). WOOD & Company acts as a market maker in all of the warrants issued.
Access products can be tailor-made if certain volume requirements are met and are ideal instruments for exposure to the least developed frontier markets, such as Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. In addition, they give the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO, private equity type companies which would not be investable otherwise.