Carlyle, the largest worldwide investment fund manager, has recently appointed a Romanian as Vice President for buyout opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe. This makes Catalin Breaban the second Romanian to join the over 600-strong team of experts at the American company.
With assets worth over 80 billion dollars and 60 investment funds under management, Carlyle has so far invested in over 20 countries throughout the world and is expected to enter the Romanian market as well.
Catalin Breaban, who works at Carlyle's London-based offices, is in charge of acquisition opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Prior to that, he had held the position of Vice President of the investment banking team at the HSBC banking group. Breaban also worked for Austrian-based Raiffeisen Investments, where he handled mergers and acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Catalin Breaban graduated from an MBA course with INSEAD, one of the best business schools in the world.
The first Romanian to have joined Carlyle's almost 600-people team is Dan Farcasanu. He is currently senior associate with the Central and Eastern Europe Buyout fund. Farcasanu is in charge of investment opportunities in Eastern Europe and is based at the Warsaw office. He previously worked with Global Finance, a Greek private equity company that has been operating on the local market for over ten years, where he acted as investment manager for Romania.
Farcasanu has solid experience on the mergers and acquisitions segment having worked in the past with advisory companies CA IB Romania and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Deals where Farcasanu worked as an advisor include the acquisition of Electrica Oltenia by CEZ, the deal between Ruhrgas and Distrigaz Nord, and the sale of energy carrier company Electrica Muntenia Sud.
On the local market, Carlyle is interested in companies th
