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Marco Polo Advisor in 2024: 8 completed transactions and good market prospects for the future
Marco Polo Advisor presented a positive performance in 2024, confirming its positioning among the Italian corporate finance advisors: with eight completed transactions and a total transaction value of approximately 135 million euros in 2024, it represented one of the best years in the company's history.
The completed transactions involved six sale transactions, one assistance in the acquisition, one transaction relating to capital raising. From a sectoral perspective, three transactions concerned the Industrial sector, two transactions involved the Energy sector, one each in the TMT, Health care and Business Services sectors.
The activity carried out in the small-mid cap segment remained significant despite negative external factors of a geopolitical nature (with war scenarios in Europe and the Middle East) and economic nature (with high interest rates and unpredictability of energy costs).
Marco Polo and its associated companies have also started a more structured activity of participation in direct investments. The investments followed are mainly made up of participations in companies and assets where Marco Polo Advisor developed knowledge, or which have synergies with the advisory business, among which we would like to highlight Colombo Tecnologie in the digital field and an investment in the energy sector. The activity of assistance to family offices and investors in the planning and control of investments has also been strengthened.
Around ten projects during the year were conducted in cooperation with colleagues from Aica, Alliance of International Corporate Advisors, the international organization that includes about 40 corporate finance companies in the world, of which Marco Polo Advisor is a founding member.
According to Filippo Rozzanigo, CEO of Marco Polo Advisor, “In 2024, our structure and our network of contacts with companies and investors, in Italy and around the world, were also strengthened with good results and an overall consolidation of the level of our activity.
We are now working to grow our organization both at the level of senior figures and in the structures of associates and analysts, to meet the growing demand for assistance services in corporate finance transactions.
We look with optimism to 2025 thanks to an important pipeline of ongoing projects, in a good stage of progress, because there are many opportunities to continue to promote the evolution and transformation of Italian companies and the development of stronger and more competitive industrial hubs.”
Marco Polo Advisor is a financial consultancy company specialized in corporate fiancé transactions: acquisitions and sales of companies and shareholdings, capital raising and financial consultancy for companies, investors and family offices. With three offices in Italy (Bologna, Padua and Milan), a staff of 12 dedicated professionals, 16 years of experience and over 80 completed transactions, it represents one of the most active advisors in the small and medium-sized transactions segment in Italy. He is a founding member of AICA, Alliance of International Corporate Advisors, an organization active on cross-border projects which includes around 40 M&A and financial advisory companies in the world.