Richard Clegg Partner Wolf Theiss

Richard Clegg is a partner at Wolf Theiss in Sofia whose practice includes all areas of corporate & financing transactions. His career experience includes advising on the development of internationally significant road and rail infrastructure; telecom and technology acquisitions and financings; and a wide range of corporate M&A and joint ventures in Eastern Europe and internationally in the FMCG, automotive and industrial sectors. Richard is a Solicitor of England & Wales and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, University College London, and INSEAD.

Sonja Caymaz Research Editor Acuris

Sonja specialises in energy and emerging markets and has been working as a Research Editor for Mergermarket since 2014.

Robert Manz Managing Partner Enterprise Investors

Robert is a Managing Partner of Enterprise Investors, a leading private equity fund management company in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). EI has raised eight funds totaling €2 billion, has invested in 140 companies in the CEE region, and has exited more than 100 companies, including over 30 public market listings. Having joined Enterprise Investors at the firm’s start in 1990, Robert is one of the longest-active professionals in CEE private equity, with more than 27 years of investment experience.

Alexandra Nagle Managing Director, Corporate Finance Advisory Austria & CEE UniCredit

Alex is a senior member of UniCredit’s Corporate Finance Advisory team, focused on Consumer and Retail transactions in Austria and CEE. She also heads UniCredit’s Capital Structure Advisory team for large CEE corporate clients. With some 18 years of M&A advisory experience, she has worked on numerous landmark transactions in CEE. Most recently, she advised the management and a consortium of shareholders of Pivovarna Laško, Slovenia’s leading brewery group, on the sale of a majority stake to Heineken, following advisory on Pivovarna Laško’s disposal of several non-core businesses.

Horst Ebhardt Partner Wolf Theiss

Horst Ebhardt, Partner and Head of the Practice Group Corporate / M&A at Wolf Theiss, specializes in complex cross-border M&A transactions, privatizations and restructurings in Austria and throughout the CEE/SEE region. He regularly advises clients from a broad range of industries, including financial institutions, life sciences and private equity, on corporate finance and governance matters. Over the last 12 years, Horst has served as the lead attorney on approximately 90 transactions, several involving a value of more than EUR 1 billion. In addition to his practice, Horst teaches an M&A program at the law school of the University of Vienna. He is admitted in Austria and holds an LL.M. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.