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M&A advisor Evgeni Kanev

About Evgeni

In his extensive 20 year corporate finance advisory career, Evgeni Kanev has managed projects across most of the economic sectors of South Eastern Europe. His knowledge of the consumer products, energy and IT industries are excellent. He has done a large number of cross border M&A deals with big international corporations both on the buy side and sell sides. CFIE is ready to help you with your European M&A plans.

Skills & Experience

Evgeni used to head the Corporate Finance Department of KPMG Bulgaria, where he managed over 200 mandates for M&As, business valuations and financing projects across the major  industries of South Eastern Europe  for nearly 12 years.  Later,  he was the Managing Director European Operations of Tello Corporations (USA), a  venture capital company in the area of instant communications. At present, he is the managing partner of a corporate finance advisory firm Maconis LLC, which is a partner/affiliate of CFIE. Based on his extensive experience and expertise, he has been elected as the macroeconomist of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) for Bulgaria.

Evgeni Kanev holds Master’s degrees of Business Administration from Illinois State University (USA). He also obtained the Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and Ph.D. in Economics with a doctoral thesis “Public-Private Partnership: Principles, Models, and Policies for Procurement of Public Services”.  Ask Evgeni for his resume if you want to know more.

M&A Deals and corporate finance assignments done by Evgeni  Kanev (some examples)

Investor		Investment fund
Country Investor		Bulgaria
Investee		FMCG company, operating in the food industry
Country investee		Bulgaria
Purchase price		>2 mil Euros
Industry		Food
Evgeni Kanev		Advice seller
Read more about this Business case of an equity investment obtained by an FMCG company

Acquirer		XEMC
Country Acquirer		China
Target		4 subsidiaries of Noreks Energy Ltd
Country target		Bulgaria
Item		Strategic acquisition
Revenue		>50M EUR
Industry		Renewable Energy
Evgeni		Advisor Target
Acquirer		Samsung
Country Acquirer		Global
Target		Six SPV
Country target		Bulgaria
Item		Strategic  acqusition
Revenue		>50M EUR
Industry		Renewable energy
Evgeni		Advisor acquirer
Acquirer		International investor
Country Acquirer		Global
Target		Industrial park company
Country target		Hungary
Item		Strategic acquisition
Revenu		>10M Euro
Investment		>10 M Euro
Industry		Real Estate
Evgeni		Advisor acquirer
Acquirer		GTC
Country Acquirer		Israel
Target		SPV
Country target		Bulgaria
Item		Strategic acquisition
Industry		Real estate
Evgeni		Advisor acquirer
Acquirer		Private Equity Fund
Country Acquirer		UK
Target		Coffee producer
Country target		Bulgaria
Item		Financial acquisition
Industry		Consumer Products
Evgeni		Advisor target
Acquirer		Allianz
Country Acquirer		Germany
Target		DZI Insurance company AD
Country target		Bulgaria
Industry		Financial Services
Evgeni		Advisor acquirer
Acquirer		Brenntag
Country Acquirer		Germany
Target		Manti Co LTD.
Country target		Bulgaria
Purchase price		not disclosed
Industry		Chemicals
Evgeni		Advisor target
Acquirer		Kharafi Group
Country Acquirer		Kuweit
Target		Hemus Air
Country target		Bulgaria
Purchase price		not disclosed
Industry		Transportation
Evgeni		Advisor acquirer

Industrial knowledge

• Financial services
• Energy
• Consumer goods
• Infrastructure and Real Estate
• Information Technology, Telecommunications and Media

Country experience

• Bulgaria
• Macedonia
• Romania
• Ireland
• Hungary
• Croatia
• Turkey

Languages spoken by the M&A advisor

• Bulgarian(Native)
• English (Excellent)
• Russian (Very good)
• German (Fair)
• Serbo-Croatian (Fair)

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