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Cross-border M&A.
Sell-side and buy-side advice on transactions spanning jurisdictions, cultures and legal systems. We find the right counterparty and bring different interests to a result both sides can sign.
Cross-border M&A » Vienna
Complex transactions. Structured differently.
We advise investors, families, corporates and institutions on cross-border, strategic and geopolitically sensitive transactions, where regulatory, sovereign or structural complexity rules out a conventional process.
About us
Selective by design.
Arcus Advisors is an independent corporate finance advisory firm based in Vienna. We do not advise on volume-driven, plain-vanilla transactions. We focus only on highly complex, strategic and geopolitically sensitive M&A: deals that cross borders, involve sovereign or regulated counterparties, or call for structures that don't yet exist.
Since 2014 we have advised ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, private equity and venture capital funds, corporates, financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds. We take on a small number of mandates at a time, so each one gets senior attention from the first conversation through to closing.
Our founder and Managing Partner, Martin Schwedler, has more than 30 years of international investment banking and private equity experience in London, New York, Frankfurt, Moscow, Paris and Vienna. He has held senior roles at GE Capital, Credit Suisse, Lazard and CIBC Oppenheimer, and was CEO of Raiffeisen Investment AG, the M&A advisory arm of Raiffeisen Bank International. Through a global network and cooperation agreements with leading institutions, we reach decision-makers that standard processes don't.
Complex by choice.
We take on mandates where regulatory, sovereign or strategic factors mean the deal has to be designed rather than processed.
Global reach.
A network across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia gives direct access to strategic buyers, investors and state-related counterparties.
Independent and discreet.
We are owner-managed and tied to no bank or investor. Our advice serves the client's interests alone, and we treat every mandate with strict confidentiality.
What we do
Where conventional M&A reaches its limits.
Clients across 15 European countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Sovereign and institutional counterparties.
Transactions with sovereign wealth funds, state-owned enterprises and strategic institutional investors, where political, governance and reputational factors weigh as heavily as price.
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Regulated and geopolitically sensitive situations.
Deals affected by foreign investment screening, sanctions, merger control or strategic-industry rules. We anticipate approval risk and shape the structure and timetable around it.
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Non-standard structures and capital.
Joint ventures, carve-outs, minority and staged investments, strategic capital raises and restructurings, built for situations where off-the-shelf structures don't work.
How we work
No playbook. A clear process.
Phase 1
Assess.
Map the strategic goals, stakeholders and constraints: regulatory, sovereign, political and reputational. Identify what could stop the deal before it starts.
Phase 2
Structure.
Design a transaction and approval path that fits the situation, whether that means a creative structure, staged execution or alternative routes to value.
Phase 3
Engage.
Approach the right strategic, financial and sovereign counterparties confidentially through our international network, often at principal level.
Phase 4
Negotiate and close.
Lead negotiations, coordinate legal, tax and regulatory advisers across jurisdictions, and see the transaction through approvals to closing.
Track record
Experience across borders.
50+Complex transactions advised
$30bnAggregate transaction value
15European countries, plus MEA and Asia
2014Independent since 2014
Contact
For mandates that need more than a standard process.
If your transaction crosses borders, involves sovereign or regulated parties, or needs a structure that doesn't yet exist, talking early gives you room to shape it. Every conversation is confidential.
OfficeArcus Advisors GmbH
Wallnerstrasse 1/3rd Floor
1010 Vienna, Austria
Wallnerstrasse 1/3rd Floor
1010 Vienna, Austria
Get in touchas@arcus-advisors.com
m: +43 678 1241658
m: +43 678 1241658