Financial Credit Services, Transactional, and Strategic Advisory
Mezzanine Capital is a highly qualified provider of tailored credit solutions in the market, with extensive experience in banking and strategic advisory. We offer services to large, small, and medium-sized companies that require a specialized approach and individual solutions to their needs. We provide and deliver the highest level of service through a wide range of financial (credit) products and transactional (including M&A) and strategic advisory services, primarily in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and neighboring countries. Our key product is mezzanine loan which we are able to provide via our own structure or to arrange it and ensure its granting by a third party.
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Trust between us and our clients, investors, employees, and shareholders is an integral part of our services.
We offer exceptional innovative solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients.
We believe in mutually beneficial relationships and collaboration based on the principles of transparency and equality.
Our History
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Mezzanine financing combines key parameters of senior debt and equity capital
It is a corporate loan with repayment terms tailored to the expected cash flows of the company. It serves as a hybrid between senior debt and equity, blending elements of sharing business risk and cost of capital in a way that neither equity nor senior debt alone allows.
From the perspective of a company that accepts mezzanine financing, it's a specific type of loan that must be repaid within a predefined period. From the viewpoint of other creditors, it represents a unique form of quasi-equity, where its repayment must precede the repayment of other senior creditors (referred to as subordinated debt).
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Partner
Jan has over 18 years’ experience in Corporate Banking, Structured Finance, and Commercial Real Estate finance. He started his banking career in HypoVereinsbank (currently UniCredit Group) in the Risk Management Department in 1997. Subsequently, he transitioned to the position of Structured Finance Specialist within the Corporate Banking Division in 2002. In 2007 he was promoted to the position of Director for the Structured Finance and Commercial Real Estate Finance with direct reporting to the Board of the Bank.
Jan holds a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Economics in Prague and a Master Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague.
Partner
Before founding Mezzanine Capital, Roland spent over 8 years in consulting. He worked as Managing Director at the Prague office at Roland Berger; a leading global consultancy group with responsibility for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Prior to this, he spent over 10 years in various industries as CEO and interim manager by managing companies with 500+ employees in Hungary, Slovakia and Germany.
Roland holds a Master Degree from the University of Economics (Faculty of International Trade) in Bratislava and an MBA from The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK.
Investment Manager
Tomáš has over 15 years’ worth of experience in Corporate Banking and Structured Finance. He joined Mezzanine Capital after 7 years working in the UniCredit Bank, Prague where he held the position of Structured Finance Specialist. Prior to that he has spent over 8 years in the Corporate Banking team of Citibank, Prague.
Tomáš holds a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Economics in Prague with a focus on Finance.
Strategy and Credit Risk Manager
Štěpán is a seasoned banker with over 19 years of experience in Corporate Banking, Structured Finance and Risk Management. In 2003, after 6 years of working for IPB/CSOB in Prague, as Head of the Special Credits team, he joined the Structured Finance team of UniCredit Bank as Deputy Head.
Štěpán has a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Economics in Prague.
Office Manager
Michaela has over 8 years’ worth of experience in administration and office management.
She joined Mezzanine Capital after 4 years working at the Prague office at Roland Berger, a leading global consultancy group with responsibility, among other things, for supporting the Managing Director and the whole consulting team.
Prior to that she has spent over 3 years working for one of the corporate teams in Nokia Siemens Networks in Prague.
What successful projects have we completed?
Mezzanine Capital arranged an acquisition loan of EUR 26.35 million for the RT TORAX Group.
Mezzanine Capital followed up on previously provided mezzanine financing for the acquisition of GATE Nová Karolina and further developed its cooperation with the RT TORAX Group, which is primarily active in the automotive and commercial real estate sectors, by arranging long-term senior financing and a mezzanine loan of EUR 26.35 million for the acquisition of the Nordica project in Ostrava.
RT TORAX Group is an investment group based in Ostrava, founded in 1994 by Mr. Radek Šnita and Mr. Tomáš Häring. The group is active in the automotive sector (engaged in the sale, servicing, and provision of financial services related to the sale of passenger cars) and commercial real estate (mainly in the acquisition and operation of administrative properties). It develops its activities across regions throughout the Czech Republic. Recently, it has added the GATE Nová Karolina administrative building in downtown Ostrava to its portfolio, and with the acquisition of the Nordica administrative building, the group has become the second-largest lessor of “A-class” office spaces in the Moravian-Silesian region.
NORDICA Building is an administrative building project with nearly 12,000 m² of leasable space and 130 parking spaces, located in the city centre of Ostrava on Českobratrská Street. The building was a finalist in the 2009 Building of the Year competition, and in addition to flexible office spaces, it offers, for example, a rooftop terrace used as a relaxation area. NORDICA Building was the very first administrative centre in the Czech Republic to receive Green Building certification from the European Commission for energy savings 30% higher than Czech standards.
Mezzanine Capital provided an acquisition loan of EUR 32 million to the RT TORAX Group
Mezzanine Capital supported the RT TORAX Group, which is primarily active in the automotive and commercial real estate sectors, by providing a long-term mezzanine loan of EUR 32 million for the acquisition of the Nová Karolina Park Ostrava project.
RT TORAX Group is an investment group based in Ostrava, founded in 1994 by Mr. Radek Šnita and Mr. Tomáš Häring. The group is active in the automotive sector (engaged in the sale, servicing, and provision of financial services related to the sale of passenger cars) and in commercial real estate (particularly in the acquisition and operation of administrative properties). It develops its activities across regions throughout the Czech Republic.
Nová Karolina Park is a trophy administrative building project in the centre of Ostrava, completed by Passerinvest Group in 2012. It offers nearly 24,726 m² of premium office space on 6 above-ground floors, 3,846 m² of retail and storage space, and 279 parking spaces. The building is characterized by excellent transport accessibility and comprehensive civic amenities in its immediate vicinity.
Mezzanine Capital provided EUR 6 million loan in connection with the recapitalization of VUES Brno Ltd.
Mezzanine Capital participated in the recapitalization transaction of Nolloth S.A. (majority owned by ARX Equity Partners) and its subsidiaries VUES Brno Ltd. (www.vues.cz) and VSM Antriebstechnik GmbH by granting a EUR 6 million mezzanine loan. The total size of the transaction (debt refinancing and recapitalization) amounted to EUR 26 million.
VUES was founded in 1947 and deals with designing, manufacturing and testing of special and non-standard electric rotating machines (asynchronous, synchronous and synchronous with PM), electric drives, and test stands with dynamometers. Their products are integrated by their customers into higher technological units for industrial automation and robotics, logistics and packaging technology, automotive, energy sector, traction and other fields.
VUES is a certified supplier of individual “high-tech” solutions operating on Central and Western European markets. In 2015, the company reported consolidated revenues of EUR 26 million.
VSM is a subsidiary of VUES based in Griesheim (DE) with responsibility for sales of selected products from VUES Brno to Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Mezzanine Capital provided a EUR 12.5 million acquisition loan to Medicon group
Mezzanine Capital recently supported a leading Czech health care provider Medicon (www.mediconas.cz) in acquiring PRONATAL Group (www.pronatal.cz), one of the largest infertility treatment companies in the Czech Republic, through providing a EUR 12.5 million mezzanine loan.
Medicon is the major outpatient healthcare provider in Prague operating the policlinics located in Prague 4, Prague 9 and Prague 10, and a leading provider of radiology and breast tumor screenings in the Prague region. More than 60 thousand patients are serviced in Medicon facilities each month.
Mezzanine Capital provided a EUR 38 million acquisition loan to MTC Group
Mezzanine Capital recently supported a leading Czech coil coating and aluminum manufacturer Metal Trade Comax (www.mtcomax.cz) in acquiring Oetinger Aluminium Group (www.oetinger.net), major liquid and ingots aluminum producer in Germany, through providing a EUR 38 million mezzanine loan.
Metal Trade Comax is one of the leading European manufacturers of continuous coil coating and the only producer of continuously coated sheet metal in the Czech Republic. The company is also a producer of foundry alloys, master alloys and non-ferrous metals based on aluminum and copper and since 2015 it is the only producer of liquid aluminum in the Czech Republic. The annual turnover of the company exceeds 250 million EUR.
Oetinger Aluminium Group is a leading aluminum scrap recycling company focused on production of casting alloys and known for excellent technological competences, in particular for customized special alloys. The company strongly benefits from a high degree of liquid aluminum deliveries as well as regional and close customer relationships (due to a considerable volume of conversion business). The annual turnover of the company exceeds 300 million EUR.
