Monday, January 28, 2019 — Invest Corporate Finance in Portugal joins IMAP as the exclusive corporate finance partner for M&A activities in Portugal.
IMAP is an international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory partnership and, with the addition of the Portuguese team, is now located in 40 countries worldwide. IMAP advisors executed 208 transactions in 2018 with total disclosed value worth over USD 10 billion.
The Invest Corporate Finance team of eight professionals has been responsible for, at different levels, the advisory of major infrastructure and corporate deals for over 25 years, with deal experience covering the Utilities, Transportation, Health-Care, Distribution, Industry, Shipping, Media, Food & Beverage and Telecoms sectors. Invest Corporate Finance is a joint-venture of the management team together with Banco Invest, one of the premier Portuguese banks serving the mid-cap sector.
Jurgis V Oniunas, IMAP Chairman commented: “We welcome Gonçalo, Pedro and the whole Invest Corporate Finance team. I am certain they will play a pivotal role in collaborating not only with our Portuguese speaking teams in Latin America and Africa, but will be a conduit for Portuguese investments throughout Europe and the world.”
Gonçalo Vaz Botelho, Managing Partner and CEO at Invest Corporate Finance said: “As a partner of IMAP, Invest Corporate Finance is able to identify and contact buyers and investors as well as target companies all over the world, regardless of nationality, language, culture and size. The combination of global reach, local presence and personal relations to potential investors and targets is crucial for the success of most M&A projects.”
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