Last year 2025 was for our advisory boutique NEWTON Business Development in the light of Concessions/PPP projects restart, once we have advised on 9 Concessions/PPP projects, which have been in tender preparation or tendering phase.
Their total concession value is about EUR 2 billion with EUR 857m CAPEX value in following main segments:
We, at NEWTON Business Development, a Prague based member of Pandion Partners, closed 4 Corporate Finance transactions last year. We advised our clients in:
Sale of majority stake in a real estate residential project in Luhačovice to EQCA Group
After many years, Michal expected to finish 2024 with more successfuly closed Sell Side mandates/deals. However, we at NEWTON Business Development, are back with Buy Side overpassing Sell Side again 😁 Michal’s expectation went bust …
Anyway, more important is to have experience from both sides as the lessons are always different if you are a buyer or a seller 😊
Also the industries varied, started with Fashion, followed by our traditional Hydro Power, moved to Circular Plastic Recycling and finished with Clinical Research services. The deals for our M&A clients were:
2️⃣ Acquisition of 35% stake in a Scottish hydropower plants group with annual electricity production of about 11 GWh
3️⃣ Acquisition of majority stake in the inovative polyethylene recycling ETW
4️⃣ Sale of 100% of Clinical Site Network Clinical Research Center
It is mutual success of our great team based in Prague – Barbora Klabochová, David Prudek, Jiří Blecha, Julie Romaško, Michael Sedlák, Mirka Starečková, Monika Šaštinská, Petr Šedý and Tauber Stepan!
Naturally with close cooperation with our international partners at Pandion Partners 💖 lead by Sebastian Moss, Marc FEYEN and Francesco Faina
Thank you very much to all of them 👏 and naturally also to the clients that allowed to us to make them more wealthy 🤑
For the city of Brno, we provide comprehensive consultancy in preparation for the construction and long-term operation of a new multifunctional hall for 13 thousand spectators.
We have prepared a business plan for the hall, a funding gap analysis and assistance for the approval of public support for the project at the European Commission. We also provided expertise in the development of concession documentation and in the selection of a private operator, and last but not least, we ensure the financing of the entire project in amount of about EUR 90 million.
For the European investment company Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), we provided transactional advice on the acquisition of 100% of MVV Energie CZ.
The energy group MVV Energie CZ serves customers in 15 cities in the Czech Republic and is one of the leading producers and suppliers of thermal energy. In 2021, MVV Energie CZ sold 690 GWh of heat and 170 GWh of electricity, and its turnover in the economic year 2020-2021 was 2.1 billion CZK (EUR 85 mil.).
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, shared his personal view on the development of the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) market in Central and Eastern Europe for the third time in a FORDATA report.
This time with the theme “It will be a tough challenge for companies to maintain strong performance levels”. At the same time, he presented on this topic at the FORDATA WEBINAR.
Michal Tesař presented and participated in the discussion as part of the Financing of brownfield projects panel at the Brownfields Conference 2022 in Dolní Vítkovice.
Already in the previous year, at the Brownfields 2021 Conference in Český Krumlov, he presented the topic of using PPP concept in brownfield projects. Collection of presentations from this conference is available here.
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, shared his personal view on development of the M&A market in the Central and Eastern Europe. It is second time when he participated in the FORDATA M&A report for CEE region. This time with “The Weight Of Resilience” theme.
Michal Tesař, Partner at NEWTON Business Development / Pandion Partners, advised to Eva Čejková and other original founders of start-up Testuj.to in the process of Heureka Group capital entry.
Initial acquired stake is 15% with possibility to increase it to 40%. See more details at the following press release.
About Testuj.to
Testuj.to service is a marketing tool for brands or e-shops, which actively work with their customer communities and want to get fast and exact feedback for their products and services. It is also about generating serious customer reviews. This easy plug-in solution is suitable for all web portals and allows to work with micro influencers for fraction of financial and time costs than by creating their own solution.
About Heureka Group
9 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, over 20 million visitors per month and a network of over 55,000 online stores. This is the Heureka Group, Europe’s largest price comparison website and online shopping advisor.
Prague, February 2019 – Michal Tesař and David Průdek through their company NEWTON Business Development, a.s. together with Jindřich Ullrich from ppm factum group invested in dynamically developing project of nutritive balanced SHAKE-IT drinks. The goals of the investment are mainly to expand on foreign markets and to accelerate the development of new products.
Company Fronies s.r.o. has been manufacturing cereal drinks under the brand SHAKE-IT for almost two years. SHAKE-IT is a drink that simply saturates stomach from hunger. It is a meal in the form of drink, or a snack that you can drink easily. Its ingredients are purely natural, having positive effect on your body. Their combination creates nutritive balanced mix. There are no added aromas, colourants and preservatives. For sure, you can screen each particular ingredient item in your mind, not a chemical formula. SHAKE-IT is gluten-free, vegan and has high level of proteins, fibre and has also very low glycaemic index. A special protein variant has been developed not only for sportsmen.
All SHAKE-IT drinks represent healthy alternative to fast food meals. They are convenient as a rich breakfast, a snack or a fast lunch, if you are in hurry. The drinks have iconic packaging design, which is inspired by pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein. You can easily just pour milk or water into the SHAKE-IT cup with all the cereals and other ingredients in line with your taste. And then just SHAKE-IT and Enjoy!
SHAKE-IT has already gained plenty of satisfied consumers, both from the broad public and professional sportsmen. The drinks are currently available in more than 200 healthy products shops, e-shops and sport places.
New investors got 25% stake. The majority is held by the founders and the main faces of the project – Honza and Pavel Fronček brothers.
For the city of Brno, we provide comprehensive consultancy in preparation for the construction and long-term operation of a new multifunctional hall for 13 thousand spectators.
For the European investment company Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), we provided transactional advice on the acquisition of 100% of MVV Energie CZ.
Michal Tesař, partner of NEWTON Business Development / 
Michal Tesař, Partner at NEWTON Business Development / 