29
Fri, Mar
51 New Articles

CMS Advises PFR Ventures on PE Funds Investment

CMS Advises PFR Ventures on PE Funds Investment

Poland
Tools
Typography
  • Smaller Small Medium Big Bigger
  • Default Helvetica Segoe Georgia Times

CMS has advised PFR Ventures on its investment in private equity funds British Apax Partners, French PAI Partners, and Poland-based Avallon MBO. The total value of the investment, which also included another, unnamed, company, is PLN 340 million.

According to CMS, PFR Ventures acts as a public investor, allocating resources in venture capital funds and private equity funds, which in turn provide capital to companies at various stages of development. The PFR PE program has been in place since 2020 and is aimed at accelerating the development of the private equity market in Poland.

Apax Partners is an international private equity fund with European roots, which is behind the growth of companies such as Swiss Orange, Atos, and Losberger. PAI Partners, in turn, traces its history back to the early days of Paribas Bank, from which it spun off. The Polish fund, Avallon MBO, specializes in management buyouts and its portfolio includes Velvet Care, GoodFood, and Organic Farma Zdrowia.

CMS’s team included Poland-based Partners Blazej Zagorski and Lukasz Dynysiuk, Counsel Marek Trzos-Rastawiecki, Senior Associate Rafal Dostatni, and Associate Michl Sowinski and Luxembourg-based Partners Benjamin Bada and Frederic Feyten.

CMS could not provide further information on the deal.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

Firm's website.