Published: March 13, 2009
Advent International, the global private equity firm, has announced that Peter Nachtnebel will be joining the firm’s Central & Eastern Europe team. He will be based at Advent’s Prague office.
Peter Nachtnebel joins Advent from UniCredit Markets & Investment banking, where he was managing director and head of financial sponsors and leveraged finance for Central & Eastern Europe, including Russia, Turkey, and Austria. In that role, Nachtnebel became one of Central Europe’s leading bankers in private equity, providing bank finance and structuring advice on LBOs and corporate transactions for over 100 deals across the region in the past 10 years.
Before joining UniCredit, Nachtnebel had spent seven years at Creditanstalt (later Bank Austria), latterly as head of debt origination for structured finance, having previously led the bank’s CEE telecoms and media practice and then helped to establish its merchant banking operations.
Advent is currently investing its fourth fund for the region, which closed at €1bn in 2008. The firm has offices in Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest and Kiev, covering all the major CEE countries and Turkey.