BT Capital Partners brokered the acquisition of Repower operations in Romania by the Swiss company MET Group, on the the buyer’s side, told energynomics.ro, the director of Investment Banking at BT Capital Partners, Vlad Buşilă.

“We represented the buyer, BG Cont on the accounting and auditing and Kinstellar in the legal advice side. The operations lasted about three months,” said Buşilă. He could not disclose the transaction value or budgeted fees.

“All I can say is that newly created player will be fourth or fifth, depending on the markets considered,” he said.

BT Securities, the brokerage company of Banca Transilvania Financial Group, has become this year BT Capital Partners, the consulting firm taken over by Banca Transilvania retaining its company brand and the team of a small player set up ten years ago by Doru Lionachescu. Capital Partners has previously brokered takeover deals worth a total of over 2 billion euros.

MET, a Swiss energy group specializing in trading energy, gas and oil products, announced Tuesday the take over all businesses of the energy supplier Repower in Romania. Thus, MET Group, which has operations in Romania since 2009, will take over the entire local unit of Repower in Romania, covering about 5% of the market. The largest shareholder of MET is the Hungarian group MOL.

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Active in the economic and business press for the past 26 years, Bogdan graduated Law and then attended intensive courses in Economics and Business English. He went up to the position of editor-in-chief since 2006 and has provided management and editorial policy for numerous economic publications dedicated especially to the community of foreign investors in Romania. From 2003 to 2013 he was active mainly in the financial-banking sector. He started freelancing for Energynomics in 2013, notable for his advanced knowledge of markets, business communities and a mature editorial style, both in Romanian and English.