Albatross78

Albatross78 is an independent specialist in strategy and ownership change.

Albatross78 was found in 1978 and has offices in Falkenberg, Stockholm, Eksjö and Helsingborg. We are consultants for corporate development and transactions. All partners have substantial experience and track record from management positions in Swedish companies in both Sweden and Europe.

Albatross78 assist owners, directors and business managers to make the right decisions at strategic crossroads and to implement these decisions. The nature of the assignment is adapted to each unique situation.

The most common form of ownership change is a sale of the company. Albatross78 work as both advisor and project manager for many family-owned companies.

In Sweden Albatross78 work close to Arctos Mergers & Acquisitions. (www.arctos.se). Together we are a combined force in Swedish M&A with an international perspective. We cover the whole small- and mid-sized market in Sweden, with the capacity and track record to manage large-size transactions.

The two firms combine industrial and financial backgrounds and have access to a large network of contacts in various industries and in the financial markets throughout Sweden:

  • Strategic background: All consultants in Albatross78 have extensive experience from the industry as CEOs in larger companies.
  • Financial background: All consultants in Arctos M&A have extensive experience in corporate finance and investment banking.
  • Network within Swedish industry.
  • Network within Swedish private equity sector: ongoing consultation with all major private equity funds.
  • Assignments as board directors (mostly chairman).

Our clients are primarily found in Sweden, but we also work with international clients buying or divesting Nordic businesses.

We target small- and mid-sized companies - usually with a transaction value of €3-100m - in principle profitable companies with an established business.

We focus on privately- or family-owned companies, divisions or subsidiaries of larger groups and portfolio companies of private equity funds.

We are not focused on any specific industries.

Our services include:
  • Sales & divestures: general sale mandates, targeted sale mandates, negotiation and execution.
  • Acquisitions: acquisitions, search and buy mandate.
  • Capital procurement: private placements, Management buy-outs and buy-ins, etc.
  • Other services: valuations, fairness opinion, strategic/business review, Board directors, time management, etc.

We co-operate with leading specialists within:
  • Tax
  • Legal
  • Financial control/transaction services
  • Insurance
  • Recruitment
  • Asset management
  • Strategy