Mr. Edward MacDonald and the team embrace challenging assignments and complex situations, confident that we can bring to bear best practices and lessons learned from personally overseeing the completion of a significant number of deals in the region. Owning to historical legacy, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) economies present unique opportunities and challenges compared to their developed and mature western counterparts. In parallel to the region’s unprecedented economic, societal and political advances achieved in recent decades, with a much shorter reign of liberalized markets, CEE countries are witnessing progressing maturation of regulatory frameworks and business practices, converging to those that facilitate transactions elsewhere in highly developed economies. To this end, we invest the time and resources to understand the client, their business and the unique factors influencing the situation, leveraging this knowledge with our unique understanding of the local transaction environment to provide truly valuable advice that serves the long-term interests of our clients and results in deals being completed on the best terms possible and the right time for the client, not for the advisor.

Operating as a partnership, we have a deep understanding of the business reality our clients face both day-to-day and when making long-term strategic decisions. Compared to counterparts at global franchises, professionals at MacDonald & Associates rely exclusively on corporate finance revenues generated from satisfied clients, with our entrepreneurial spirit and economic incentives being directly aligned with our clients’ interests. The result has been a long history of repeat business with clients regularly returning to us to advise on subsequent transactions, often from an industry different from that we originally advised on. Such clients place less value on a long marketing list of completed transactions that a large corporate finance firm may have advised on in general, and more value on the actual knowledge and experience of a dedicated and trusted team who is responsible for closing a specific deal that is crucially important to them.

Operating as a partnership, we have a deep understanding of the business reality our clients face both day-to-day and when making long-term strategic decisions. Compared to counterparts at global franchises, professionals at MacDonald & Associates rely exclusively on corporate finance revenues generated from satisfied clients, with our entrepreneurial spirit and economic incentives being directly aligned with our clients’ interests. The result has been a long history of repeat business with clients regularly returning to us to advise on subsequent transactions, often from an industry different from that we originally advised on. Such clients place less value on a long marketing list of completed transactions that a large corporate finance firm may have advised on in general, and more value on the actual knowledge and experience of a dedicated and trusted team who is responsible for closing a specific deal that is crucially important to them.

We provide strategic and financial advice across many industries, including consumer & retail, healthcare, industrials, telecom and technology. As a result, professionals at MacDonald & Associates have accumulated a wealth of knowledge of these markets. But the highest value-added derives from our deep experience in completing a high volume of different types of transactions across such a wide range of sectors. The result is a deep understanding of the many organizational and behavioral factors that translate into a successful deal that surpasses client expectations on a regular basis. Not being focused narrowly on specific sectors has enabled us to become experts in the transaction process itself and accumulate unique insights and practices which apply universally across industries.

Furthermore, we do not provide sales, trading nor equity research services. Our only focus has always been, and will always be, strategic financial advisory. As such, we are not encumbered by any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.

The MacDonald & Associates team has supported multiple clients and companies on a wide range of corporate finance assignments primarily in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Moldova. Our experience encompasses both domestic market and cross-border capabilities in a wide range of sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A and capital raising assignments.

Our legal name, Advisory Trust Group, proudly summarizes our core philosophy – consistently providing disinterested advice as a team, ensuring the long-term trust and confidence of our clients. The decision to trademark the firm as “MacDonald & Associates” results from the input of multiple historic satisfied clients, all of whom had highly positive associations with Mr. Edward MacDonald and the many team members he has worked with in over 30 years of investment banking. The focus is always to provide a team of professionals who put the interests of the clients first, taking pride in the fact that professional reputations ultimately rest on integrity in every aspect of business dealings. A long track record of successfully completed deals and repeat business is the satisfying result.