The past two years changed the reality as we knew it and forced us face an unprecedented crisis, pushed us to adapt swiftly to the new paradigm, to act cautiously and to maintain all our production units fully operational. While we succeeded in overcoming past crises, such as the one in 2008, this was a completely new situation, as it was not a cash crisis, but a sanitary one, and most companies faced shortages in supply of raw materials or even staff, said Marian Nastase, Chairman of the Board of Directors ALRO.

„In their turn, the investors, the shareholders started to look more in depth into matters that, while important in the past as well, were not necessarily in their top three priorities while evaluating a company. Integration, the degree of self sufficiency of a company, its geographical position, the sanitary measures to ensure the health and safety of the employees and, thus, the continuity of the business, became important assets and will continue to play a major role in the evaluation of a company. And from this point of view, we at ALRO are in a rather privileged position, as we are integrated in terms of raw materials (we own a bauxite mine and an alumina refinery), and we continued our strategy to become fully integrated, including in terms of energy supply (albeit being in an early stage in this area). Moreover, our geographical position allows us to use trucks to ship our products, thus avoiding the maritime transportation where the delays and the costs increased significantly. And in terms of health and safety we implemented swift and complex measures that protected our employees and maintained the production flow. Moreover, the metals businesses show signs of recovery in terms of demand, and aluminium follows this trend, and again we are in a good position, as, and I come back to our long term strategy, we focused on high added value products where the demand picked up and supported our development plans”, he added.

Marian Nastase, Chairman of the Board of Directors ALRO, is one of the speakers of MIRSANU DEALMAKERS SUMMIT 2021 in the opening panel on the trends that shapes major corporative transactions.

On December 10, 2021, MIRSANU.RO transaction journal is hosting MIRSANU DEALMAKERS SUMMIT 2021, an event dedicated to the community of corporate transactions – mergers & acquisitions (M&A), financing, capital market transactions and real estate transactions.

The agenda of the event will be as follows:

09:50 – 10:00 Introduction by the event moderator

10.00 – 10.10 Keynote speaker

10.10 – 11.00 Panel on international macro trends and local trends that will shape the major corporate deals

11.00 – 11.50 Panel on the mergers & acquisitions (M&A) market

11.50 – 12.10 Study Case

12.10 – 13.00 Panel on corporate financing

13.00 – 13.20 Developments on the real estate market

13.20 – 14.20 Break

14.20 – 15.10 Roundtable panel on private equity & venture capital

15.10 – 15.30 Q&A ESG

15.30 – 16.20 Deals on the capital markets

16.20 – 16.30 Opportunities room

16.30 – 17.20 Debate: Buyers v Sellers

17.20 – 17.30 Event conclusions

The event’s partners are Immofinanz, Dentons, Bucharest Stock Exchange, ING Bank Romania, Prefera Foods, Alro, Mazars, Schoenherr and DLA Piper Romania.

If you are interested in attending this event, please contact us at: office@mirsanu.ro.

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