Clairfield Expands To Finland With New Partner Firm PCA
Clairfield International is pleased to announce that PCA Corporate Finance has joined Clairfield as its exclusive partner in Finland. It becomes the 17th firm in the Clairfield partnership, which focuses on providing top-quality corporate finance advisory services in middle-market cross-border transactions.
PCA Corporate Finance (www.pca.fi) is among the top three investment banks in Finland in the number of M&A transactions closed. PCA is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012. The company’s senior partners have worked together as a team since the late 1990s, giving PCA a proven advantage when serving its clients. PCA’s services cover advisory in M&A transactions as well as in equity and debt financing. PCA also possesses a significant market position in the planning of equity-based incentive schemes of major NASDAQ OMX Helsinki-listed companies. PCA also has strong experience in advising its clients in Russia-related transactions.
PCA’s most recent closed M&A transactions include: advisory to Alma Media in the acquisition of LMC, the leading recruitment portal in the Czech Republic, and the acquisition of the leading online dating site in Finland advisory to Logica, Varma and Sampo in the sale of Silta, the leading payroll service firm in Finland advisory to 3i Group in the sale of Halti, the leading sports clothing brand in Finland, and advisory to Ingman Group in the sale of Ingman Ice Cream to Unilever. PCA has also recently advised Fortum, Huhtamäki, Kemira, Outokumpu, Tieto, Uponor and UPM in their equity-based management incentive schemes.
Companies in the Nordic countries are very open to cross-border consolidation ideas. Clairfield is, therefore, happy to strengthen coverage in the region and in PCA we found a firm with the same dedication to building long‐term relationships with clients as all Clairfield International firms.
Albert Schander, Director of Expansion at Clairfield International
Most of our M&A transactions are international in nature. We have cooperated with some of the Clairfield partner firms for over 10 years and therefore, it was a very natural choice for us to join Clairfield International. We are very excited to provide our clients with M&A ideas and opportunities in countries such as Brazil, India, and the USA, where we have not had a local partner previously.