EEPG’s senior bankers have initiated, structured, advised on, and successfully executed nearly US$ 11 billion of mergers and acquisition transactions, including some of the largest cross border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, and joint venture deals in the Philippines. We are trusted advisers to the major shareholders and senior managements of the Philippines’s largest corporations and we have consistently been called upon to provide relevant, timely and creative advice to them on major strategic decisions.
Our unmatched transaction expertise and unrivaled access to the most influential decision makers in the Philippines enable us to provide our clients with the unique insights which will help them ensure a successful transaction.
We provide the full range of mergers and acquisitions advisory services including:
- Sell-side advisory
- Buy-side advisory
- Serving as common advisor to both parties
- Serving as independent financial adviser
- Advise on forming partnerships and joint ventures
- Minority stake investment or disposition
EEPG’s bankers have rendered fairness opinions and performed valuation analysis for transactions and for corporations in every major industry sector, including:
- Agriculture, food production and biological assets
- Airports
- Banking and finance
- Cement
- Conglomerates
- Construction and fabrication
- Consumer products
- Education
- Electronics manufacturing and assembly
- Energy and electricity distribution
- FMCG
- Gaming
- Government concessions
- Healthcare, hospitals and HMO
- Hotels and hospitality sector
- Infrastructure
- Insurance
- Leisure and resorts
- Logistics
- Mining and other minerals
- Ports
- Power generation: Geothermal, LNG, Renewable and Thermal based
- Real estate — commercial, industrial, residential, township development
- REITs
- Retail
- Shipping
- Shopping centers and mall developments
- TMT
- Toll roads
- Water supply and distribution
Our fairness opinions and valuations are used in tender offers, related party transactions, merger and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and other advisory assignments. They usually form part of the required regulatory filings and are relied upon by both government regulators and corporate shareholders.
With over 30 restructuring engagements completed, EEPG bankers have unrivaled experience in formulating pioneering structuring solutions for our clients. We have advised companies across different industries on customized value-unlocking strategies that involve:
- Asset disposals
- Corporate restructuring
- Contract renegotiations
- Debt renegotiations, restructuring and dacion en pago
- Disposal of non-performing loans
- Formation of special purpose and single purpose vehicles
- Going private transactions
- Government privatizations
- Spin-offs and split-off
Since 1991, EEPG’s bankers have been involved in initiating, conceptualizing, structuring and successfully raising, as book runners, over $ 9 billion in 75 IPOs and equity and equity-linked placements for almost every major Philippine corporation and conglomerate group, making them the undisputed leaders in the Philippines equity markets. EEPG’s bankers have been at the forefront of the development in the Philippine capital markets—creating and pioneering several important innovations and products including:
- The first Philippine deposit receipt, which was also listed on the PSE (ABS-CBN Corporation, 1999)
- The first Philippine Government privatization since 1994 (PNOC- EDC, 2006)
- The largest secondary offering in the Philippines (EDC, 2007)
- The first old-for-new share offer in the Philippines since 2000 (MPIC, 2009)
- The first IPO for an integrated gaming resort company in the Philippines (Bloomberry, 2012)
- The first dual listing on the Philippine Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange (DMPL, 2013)
