Strategic Advisory and Co-Investment

Personal Investors Group advises Asian investors in accessing European valuable assets and businesses opportunities. Type of cross border Asia-Europe transactions range from commercial agreements, to joint ventures, acquisition of minority stakes or full takeover. We advise on more strategic solutions to access capital and control of target companies, often through the acquisition of a debt positions or thorough the dialogue with existing lenders of cash constrained businesses.

The key strength of Personal Investors Group is a network of family-run leading companies in key sectors in Europe, and a network of highly acquisitive Asian-based financial institutions and families. We leverage on our network to facilitate transactions using a personalised, informal and ethically stringent approach. On behalf of our investors we are able to access the ultimate decision makers at target firms confidentially, and without the formalities and procedures required by global investment banks.

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China-Europe News:

‘In December 2009, Ford Motor announced to have reached an agreement to sell Volvo cars units to Geely, a Chinese car maker. Geely, according to the press will take over Volvo’s international manufacturing and sales network, but will also manufacture Volvos in China to meet fast growing demand for luxury cars on the mainland.

During the same month, Beijing Automotive (BAIC), the state-owned carmaker, said it would invest $4.8Bn to research and develop its own brand cars based in part on the $200m worth of Saab technology and production equipment bought earlier this year. Early this year, GM sold the Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong, an unknown Chinese heavy equipment maker’.

“Government of Greece agreed to transfer the port Piraeus in control of Chinese company Cosco which is obliged to invest in modernization of port 3,4 billion Euro – November 2009”