Portfolio.hu, Hungary’s leading financial and investment medium, will organise its Central And Eastern European Corporate Finance & Private Equity Conference for the forth time on 6 November 2007 (Budapest). The event has become one of the most important local professional forums by lining up a uniquely wide scope of speakers.
Portfolio.hu is organising its forth stop-gap forum, the CEE Corporate Finance and Private Equity Conference, this time under the sponsorship of Concorde Corporate Finances. Leaning on the success of our previous conferences, we will once again give the floor to prestigious local and international guest speakers to recount the impact of global M&A and PE trends on the region’s markets. The conference, which will also introduce the biggest transactions of the past year, offers great possibilities not only to obtain new and highly valuable information on the trade but also to establish new and nurture existing professional relations.
Portfolio.hu held the 1st CEE Corporate Finance and Private Equity Conference in November 2004. According to the high level speakers from the influential European & CEE capital markets and the almost 150 participants the event has filled in a niche in the region. This year’s event will keep concentrate on up-to-date issues by inviting leading professionals, consultants and experts from the leading European and regional markets as well as presenting corporate case studies.
The conferences enjoyed the distinguished attention on behalf of the local and international media and news agencies. Among others reports and interviews with our speakers where broadcasted by local TV channels (HírTV, MTV, RTL Klub) and radio stations (Kossuth, Info, Gazdasági). The conference was covered by several leading international news agencies (Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Interfax, MTI), international media (Financial Times, Börsen-Kurier, BBJ), all major local dailies and weeklies (Népszabadság, Világgazdaság, Napi Gazdaság, HVG, Figyelő, etc.) as well as a list of internet media.
Some Speakers’ sentences about topics:M&A activity in Central and Eastern Europe continues to grow year on year although it remains to be seen whether the recent credit crisis in the US and Western Europe will have a meaningful impact on this growth in the short or medium term. As privatisation programmes draw to an end, private equity investors have become increasingly active throughout the region, especially in those countries that are now part of the EU. Inward investment is rising, investment within the region is robust and, encouragingly, there are early signs of CEE companies beginning to invest outside the CEE region. Lucas Wilson, UBS Investment Bank