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xxxx EquityGate Advisors GmbH

Germany/Austria/Switzerland: Mainzer Straße 19 65185 Wiesbaden Germany

Central/Eastern Europe: Tivolska cesta 48 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

Firm Profile

EquityGate is a leading financial advisory boutique firm, providing highest quality financial advice and execution expertise in investment and acquisition financings, recapitalizations and financial restructurings as well as mergers and acquisitions.

EquityGate is part of a group of award- winning corporate finance specialists with 250 professionals in Asia, Europe and America. Our clients benefit from the global sector know-how of our international sector teams, instant access to strategic and financial investors, uniform execution standards and top-notch resources in all major regional markets. Over the past 12 months, our group has collectively completed over 130 deals

notable Client Work

EquityGate advised Vivantes - Germany's largest municipal hospital operator, in a € 145m debut debt financing - the first large-volume debt financing of a municipal hospital group without the assistance of public guarantees.

EquityGate’s debt team developed a restructuring strategy for Sava, one of the most important publicly listed companies in Slovenia with more than 2,200 employees and total assets under management of

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approximately €800 million. After that, EquityGate’s M&A team advised Sava on the sale of its rubber manufacturing division which is one of the largest industrial mid-cap M&A transactions in CEE.

EquityGate acted as Financial Advisor on the restructuring of a € 380m investment of debt, mezzanine and equity tranches, the settlement of an EPC-contract, and buy-out of minority shareholder of Germany’s largest RDF power plant.

in 30 countries worldwide with an aggregated value of over € 7 billion.

EquityGate offers the collective resources and in depth global expertise and contacts across a number of industries through our dedicated global sector teams. EquityGate has developed an outstanding network and a recognized expertise in the following key sectors:

• Healthcare

• Industrial Products & Services • Energy, Infrastructure • Financial Institutions • Real Estate

“In order to provide the best service and outcomes to our clients worldwide we expanded internationally, built industry expertise and extended our execution capabilities to arrange major transforming transactions for our clients in a difficult market environment. We combine global reach and local resources.”

Corporate Finance Boutique Firm of the Year

Michael Fabich Managing Partner Tel: +49 611 - 205 48 25 Email: fabich@equitygate.de

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Ervin Schellenberg Managing Partner Tel:+49 611 - 205 48 15 Email: schellenberg@equitygate.de

Finance Monthly GLOBAL AWARDS 2013

Robert Rügemer Managing Director Tel: +49 611 - 205 48 21 Email: ruegemer@equitygate.de