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bpv GRIGORESCU ȘTEFĂNICĂ advised the private equity investment firm Omnia Capital on acquiring 44.67% of Cargo Buddy, a digital shipping house launched in 2021. Cargo Buddy is the first digital shipping house in Eastern Europe, serving both businesses and individuals, while partially complementing courier services.
Our involvement in this transaction included advising the investor Omnia Capital on legal and tax issues related to the transaction’s structuring, documentation and implementation.
“After the takeover of road transportation company Dumagas, which was completed early last year, the investment in Cargo Buddy shows our client’s dedication to the development of the transportation sector. We are pleased that this new project values both our transaction experience and our market-leading expertise in the technology sector”, says Catalin Grigorescu, managing partner bpv GRIGORESCU ȘTEFĂNICĂ.
“Cargo Buddy is a Romanian company that is competitive at the European level, and our investment aims to increase our operational performance and offer better commercial conditions to our clients. As in the previous transactions, the collaboration with bpv GRIGORESCU ȘTEFĂNICĂ has lived up to our expectations and helped us to close the transaction on the best possible terms”, says Matei Ladea, partner Omnia Capital.
Our team included Catalin Grigorescu, managing partner and head of the technology transaction practice and Matei Tomi, associate in the corporate transactions practice.
Our team’s expertise in Corporate Transactions practice is proven by our involvement in complex transaction closing, including:
► Creatopy and its co-founders in a $10 million Series A funding round;
► Softelligence and its shareholders in connection with its acquisition by the US company Encora Holdings Limited, part of the Encora Group;
► Ziegler Group in its acquisition of HS Timber Productions in Sebeș, Romania;
► the private equity firm OMNIA CAPITAL in its acquisition of the road transportation company Dumagas from the private equity fund Bancroft;
► the company VERIDION (formerly Soleadify), its founders, as well as the venture capital fund LAUNCHUB Ventures and other participants in a USD 6 million financing round;
► software and infrastructure company INCRYS in connection with acquiring information technology services company USOURCE;
► Innoship and its shareholders on the acquisition of a majority stake in Innoship by the private equity fund Abris Capital.