Demian Esser, MBA, finance professional with extensive deal origination and execution experience having invested and advised globally on M&A and private equity transactions with total deal volumes of more than US$35bn. In-depth industry know-how in the business and consumer services, transport and logistics, infrastructure, media, leisure & tourism sectors.
Prior to founding Pedralbes Partners Demian was a Director at Citigroup’s investment bank, managing the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) transportation and services team. Prior to that Demian was a strategy management consultant with Accenture in their Products and Services practice in Berlin.
MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona and BA Hons in International Business Studies from the European Business School, London. German/Bolivian national and fluent in English, German and Spanish.
Demian Esser joined CBA as M&A Adviser in June 2016.
PSA Group has confirmed it is in talks with Opel owner GM
French car maker PSA Group is exploring the acquisition of General Motor’s European Opel brand.
PSA Group is discussing a potential acquisition of rival European carmaker Opel from General Motors, a spokesman for the French manufacturer said on Tuesday.
“PSA confirms that it is exploring a number of strategic initiatives with GM with the aim of increasing its profitability and operating efficiency, including a potential acquisition of Opel,” company spokesman Bertrand Blaise said.
Sources earlier told Reuters that GM and PSA, owner of brands including Peugeot, were in advanced discussions to combine the Paris-based carmaker with Opel. Source: Reuters
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Pick up African companies while valuations remain low
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The past couple of years have seen a number of African countries fall out of favour with investors, particularly commodity exporters – such as Nigeria, Angola and South Africa – which have suffered a slow-down in economic growth. This has subsequently led to a drop in company valuations.
However, Thabo Ncalo (pictured above), founding partner of investment firm Savvy Capital Partners,Johannesburg, believes now is an apt time to again consider investment opportunities in select African companies.
“We have gone through a downturn over the last few years, but I think now is the right time for people to start looking and put money in. The best time to buy is when valuations are as low as they are, as opposed to waiting for valuations to rise again.”
Ncalo, a former portfolio manager at asset management firm Stanlib, says due to varying levels of economic growth across Africa countries, investors are becoming pickier about which countries to invest in.
“There has been money flying into a market like Kenya, which has maintained a relatively performing economy. And of course, you have money flying out of markets like Nigeria and Mozambique. So, I think what we are finding is a lot more sophistication among investors.”
Frank K. Westermann is Honorary Consul of The United Mexican States in Hamburg for the Federal German States of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein.
Born 1949 in the German town of Mülheim/Ruhr, Frank graduated in 1970, studied Economics, and began his career as trainee with Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank AG, Hamburg (Dresdner Bank Group) in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador in 1975 to 1977. In 1978 he became Deputy Head of ABECOR (Associated Banks of Europe) – offices in Mexico-City in 1978 (til 1979), followed by Deputy Head of Credit and Loan Dept. Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank AG, Hamburg (1980 – 1981), and Head of Dresdner Bank Group Representative Office, Mexiko-City (1982 – 1987), Director and Head of Banco Nacional de México – BANAMEX – Representative Office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with subordinated offices in Paris and Madrid, responsible for the Bank’s activities in whole Continental Europe (1988 – 1997).
From 1998 to 2004 Frank Westermann was the CEO and Member of the Board of Ibero-Amerika Verein, Hamburg (name today: Lateinamerikaverein), Association grouping German companies active in Latin America and The Caribbean.
2005 to today: The Foundation of the company LaConSA – International Business Development, Hamburg came in 2005, and in the same year received his nomination appointment as Consul Honorary of The United Mexican States (5th of April) with the extent of jurisdiction in the Federal States of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, different honorary posts with a wide network throughout Europa and Latinamerica. LaConSA has brought several important German investments to mainly Mexico as the consultant for the German Headquarters.
Exclusive agent for a couple of high tech products in Mexico
Assistance of Mexican companies wishing to penetrate European markets
2012: Foundation of EZLA – „Europäisches Zentrum für Lateinamerika“, based in Hamburg, Germany: Objective: to bring Latin American SMEs to Europe (Trade & Investment)
2015: Frank K. Westermann joined the global CBA network as M&A and Financial Adviser.
Producer operates full production cycle of lead-acid batteries under own well-known brands with wide awareness and high reputation in the Ukrainian, Russian, and European batteries markets. The Group is one of the largest batteries producers in Central and Eastern Europe and also one of leading market players in Ukrainian and CIS markets. The Group is managed by a strong team of experienced professionals following steadily strategic development goals. Batteries manufacturing process is certified for compliance with international standards: ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management Systems), and ISO/TS 16949:2009 (Quality management systems. Particular requirements for the application of ISO 9001:2008 for automotive production and relevant service part organizations). Wide range of starter lead-acid batteries are used in passenger cars, cargo vehicles, buses, tractors and other agricultural vehicles, other commercial vehicles, military and special use vehicles, etc.
Highlights: Complete production cycle of starter lead-acid batteries based on state-of-the-art technologies.
Widespread marketing and distribution network for selling of lead-acid batteries in Ukrainian, European and CIS markets.
Supply contracts to automakers.
High brand-awareness of and strong demand for batteries in the afermarket.
Profitable business with a reasonable financial leverage.
Google has agreed to buy Fabric, Twitter’s application development platform for an undisclosed amount of cash. Once the deal is approved, Fabric's team will join Google’s Developer Products Group and work with the company's 'Firebase' application development platform team.
