Corridor VI · Deal corridor

CEE ↔ MEA

Cross-border M&A advisory · Central Europe, Middle East and Africa

Capital moving both ways between Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa: industrials, infrastructure, sovereign allocations.

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What moves on this corridor

The flow

EU industrials attract Gulf and North African capital; screening sits with member states, coordinated at EU level, and state-linked funding can bring the Foreign Subsidies Regulation into scope. Central European engineering groups go the other way, into infrastructure where financing shapes the structure as much as price.

Where transactions need work

What a deal turns on here

Conditionality sits in the term sheet

Conditions precedent, funding milestones and long-stop dates are where these deals tend to be negotiated, approval risk included.

Multilateral conditionality

Development finance institutions bring procurement, integrity and environmental and social standards; these are better designed in than retrofitted.

Information gaps run both ways

Comparable transaction data is thinner than in Western Europe. Building that picture is often part of the mandate.

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Michaël Aissaoui
Founder & Managing Partner · CEE and MEA

Thirty minutes, confidential, no engagement. If this is not our corridor, we will say so and point you elsewhere.

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