Keystone blir medlem i CFI

Keystone Advisers to become member of Corporate Finance International as of January 2010

Keystone Advisers from Sweden will be part of the Corporate Finance International network as of January 1st, 2010. Corporate Finance International is a network of leading boutique investment banks specializing in cross-border acquisition, divestiture, capital raising, and related services.

Comprising a select group of independent investment banks with established cross-border capabilities, Corporate Finance International focuses exclusively on middle market transactions, with an average deal size approximately EUR 10 million – EUR 200m million.

The network offers investment banking advisory services for:

Buy side advisory, including targeted search
Sell side advisory, including divestitures of operating units or subsidiaries
Sourcing across all capital tranches

The client base of network affiliates includes family and entrepreneurially owned companies, private equity funds and financial sponsors, and publicly traded companies.

Keystone Advisers is a Swedish boutique investment bank with offices in Stockholm, Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia). The company combines corporate finance expertise with an in-depth understanding of the private equity industry. The team comprises of people with ample international experience from investment banking, management consulting, as well as corporate management, strategy development and implementation.

Since its founding in February 2000, Keystone Advisers has completed more than ninety financial advisory projects. Examples of clients are medium-sized enterprises, large technology corporates, growth companies, as well as owners of these companies, such as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and buyout institutions. The firm’s client base is primarily domestic for each office and the majority of mandates are international in terms of scope of business operations, potential buyers, targets or investors.

Keystone Advisers will be playing a central role within the CFI network for the Nordic European region as well as in the Baltics and the Ukraine.

Jonus Bartholdson, partner at Keystone Advisers, comments: “Keystone Advisers is delighted to become a member of Corporate Finance International (CFI) which knits together a number of high quality boutique investment banks, all with strong reputations in their respective countries. Membership in CFI will strengthen Keystone's ability to offer cross-border M&A advisory to our clients as well as strengthen CFI's presence in Scandinavia.”

Founded in 2006 to deliver best-in-class cross-border M&A services to the middle market, Corporate Finance International delivers more than a decade of international collaboration among its members, including the successful delivery of 170 cross-border deals with an aggregate of more than EUR 5 billion volume since 2000.