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| Pecina to acquire 20% of FHB |
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VCP Finanz Holding Kft. managed by Austrian businessman Heinrich Pecina announced an option deal for 9.5% of FHB in the next fives days. VCP already holds a 9.85% stake (6.5 million shares) in FHB purchased in March 2007 at a price slightly below HUF 12 bn.
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| 19.12.2007 |
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| VCP may increase its stake in FHB |
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Budapest, London, 17 December 2007 – VCP Finanz Holding Kft. (“VCP”) and HSBC Bank plc (“HSBC”) hereby jointly announce that VCP entered into a conditional forward transaction with HSBC.
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| 18.12.2007 |
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| OneMed healthcare group grows – significant acquisition in Poland |
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| CapMan’s buyout portfolio company OneMed Group will acquire the majority shareholding or 75 per cent of Hand-Prod Group, Poland’s leading wholesaler of healthcare products. OneMed Group sells, markets and imports healthcare products, healthcare equipment and laboratory products and will substantially strengthen its position in Northern Europe with the transaction. |
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| 12.09.2007 |
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| APV parts with 50pc stake in FHB Bank in surprise sale |
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| Budapest, August 30, 2007 (MTI-ECONEWS) - Hungary's State Privatisation and Holding Company (APV) on Thursday said it sold its 50pc-plus-one-vote stake in FHB Bank for HUF 2,025 per share to "international and Hungarian institutional investors." The state retained its "B"-series FHB shares, which account for 4.1pc of the bank's registered capital, but carry special voting rights. |
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| 03.09.2007 |
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| State sells 50 pc stake in mortgage bank FHB |
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| Budapest, August 30 (MTI) - Hungarian privatisation agency APV sold a 50 percent stake in mortgage bank FHB on Wednesday for 2,025 forints per share to "international and Hungarian institutional investors" |
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| 03.09.2007 |
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| Twenty buyers purchase FHB stake; none hold more than 5pc |
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| Budapest, August 31, 2007 (MTI-ECONEWS) - Finance Minister Janos Veres on Friday said ten Hungarian and ten foreign buyers purchased parts of a 50pc-plus-one-vote stake in FHB Bank privatised on Wednesday. None of the buyers hold more than 5pc of the bank's shares, he said. |
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| 03.09.2007 |
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| Interview with Mr. Pecina: Private equity leads way in CEE |
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Private equity leads way in CEE - And its role could be even greater if certain obstacles were removed, such as clashing European Union regulations. The founder of a financial advisory comments.
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| 26.06.2007 |
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| VCP acquired shares in MOL and sold shares in MOL |
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VCP Capital Partners Unternehmensberatungs AG (VCP) announced that following share purchase agreements with Firthlion Ltd and Charing Investments Ltd, the direct influence of VCP in MOL Plc increased to 6.186% (6,086,709 shares). Following this, VCP as seller and OMV Clearing and Treasury GmbH (OMV) as buyer signed a share purchase agreement, and as a consequence the influence of VCP in MOL decreases to below 5%. " |
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| 25.06.2007 |
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| Austria's OMV ups stake in Hungary's Mol to 18.6pc - price |
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Budapest, June 25, 2007 (MTI-ECONEWS) - Austrian oil company OMV announced on Monday it has acquired an additional 8.6pc stake in Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Mol, raising its stake to 18.6pc.
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| 25.06.2007 |
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| OMV seeks talks with Hungary’s Mol |
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OMV, the Austrian oil and gas company, on Monday launched an effort to cement its dominance in central and south-eastern Europe by calling for takeover talks with Mol, the Hungarian oil company that also operates across the region.
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| 25.06.2007 |
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| VCP ups stake in Hungary FHB to 9.86% |
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VCP Finanz Holding Kft. (VCP) announces that it boosted its stake in Hungary's Land Credit and Mortgage Bank (FHB) to 6,500,000 ordinary shares. After settlement of the over-the-counter purchases of FHB shares, VCP has a direct influence of 9.86% in FHB. VCP financed the acquisition from its own resources.
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| 02.04.2007 |
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| Austrian VCP Buys 9.9% Stake In Hungarian Mtge Bk FHB -Paper |
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BUDAPEST (Dow Jones)--Austrian venture capital company Vienna Capital Partners Group has a 9.9% stake in Hungarian mortgage bank FHB Nyrt. (FHB.BU) after it purchased 6.5 million FHB shares on the over-the-counter market, business daily Vilaggazdasag said.
"We see a favorable (business) opportunity and a sensible growth potential in the Hungarian banking sector," the paper quoted Heinrich Pecina, VCP's leading partner, as saying.
VCP financed the acquisition from its own resources, Vilaggazdasag added.
The Hungarian government is looking to sell a 50% plus one-vote stake in the partly state-owned mortgage bank this year.
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| 02.04.2007 |
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| Vienna Capital Partners acquires 9.86pc stake in FHB |
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Budapest, March 30, 2007 (MTI-ECONEWS) - Vienna CapitalPartners (VCP) has acquired a 9.86pc share in mortgage bank FHB, VCP announced on Friday.
The government plans to sell the remaining 54pc state stake in FHB before the end of this year and State Privatisation and Holding Company (APV) called a tender to select a consultant for the privatisation at the beginning of March.
VCP said it bought the shares on the OTC market, and not on the bourse. Econews calculated that the shares have a market value of about HUF 13.3bn at the prevailing stock exchange price.
VCP said FHB has favourable long-term prospects and potential in the Hungarian banking sector.
VCP announced in February that it sold its entire 31.56pc stake in Hungarian chemicals company TVK through its subsidiary CE Oil and Gas Beteiligung to Mayfair Investcorp.
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| 02.04.2007 |
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| Wiener VCP steigt bei FHB-Bank ein |
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Ungarische Hypotheken-Bank soll noch dieses Jahr vollprivatisiert warden
Budapest - Die Wiener Beteiligungsfirma Vienna Capital Partners (VCP) hat sich mit knapp zehn Prozent bei der noch halbstaatlichen ungarischen Hypotheken-Bank FHB eingekauft. Die Wiener Finanzgruppe, bei der unter anderem Ex-Innenminister Ernst Strasser als Energie-Investmentprofi agiert, habe außerbörslich 9,86 Prozent an FHB erworben, berichtete VCP in einer Pressemitteilung.
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| 02.04.2007 |
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| VCP acquires a 9.86% stake in FHB |
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Budapest, 30 March 2007 –VCP Finanz Holding Kft. (“VCP”) hereby announces that, as of today, it owns 6,500,000 ordinary shares of FHB Jelzálogbank Nyrt. (FHB).
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| 30.03.2007 |
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| To another level - After a private equity buyout huge by Hungarian standards. Interview with Dr. Thomas Jetter |
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| Over the course of the last nine months, Permira Funds, a leading global private equity specialist, has been engaged in the buyout of Hungary's leading blue-chip chemicals and plastics producer, BorsodChem Nyrt for a headline value of ~$850 million. As of December 2006, Permira and its transaction partner Vienna Capital Partners (VCP) Group, successfully completed the public purchase offer for BorsodChem, acquiring a joint holding of 92.9% in the company. |
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| 12.03.2007 |
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| Austrian Hypo Group Alpe Adria Completes Capital Increase |
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Klagenfurt (APA/ADP) - Austrian Hypo Group Alpe Adria, former Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, completed the second tranche of its capital increase and raised 125 mln euro ($165.2 mln), it was reported on March 1, 2007.
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| 06.03.2007 |
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| Mol has increased its interest in TVK |
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| Budapest, February 28th 2007, Wednesday (MTI) - Mol Nyrt. has purchased 7,666,850 TVK shares on February 27th, representing 31.56 per cent of the share capital of TVK – Mol reported on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange on Wednesday. |
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| 02.03.2007 |
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| Austria's VCP to seek CEE investment targets after exiting Hungarian petrochemicals TVK |
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| BUDAPEST. FEBRUARY 28. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE – Austrian financial investor VCP Capital Partners will continue to look for investment opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe after the sale of its 31.56% stake in Hungarian petrochemical producer TVK, VCP said in a statement Wednesday. |
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| 02.03.2007 |
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| Kapitalerhöhung abgeschlossen |
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Klagenfurt. Die Hypo Alpe Adria-Bank International hat mit weiteren 125 Millionen Euro die zweite Tranche ihrer Kapitaler-höhung im Gesamtumfang von 250 Millionen Euro abgeschlossen. Damit hält die Kärntner Landesholding 44,91, die Grawe-Gruppe 41,25 Prozent und Berlin & Co 9,09 Prozent der Anteile an der Bank.
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| 02.03.2007 |
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