Sale of a European stationery & brand portfolio to a French strategic buyer
c.12,000 SKUs across two heritage brands; operations across Europe, LatAm, MENA and Asia. EUR 136m cash + EUR 31.8m debt assumption.
H2 Advisory is a Malaysia-based corporate finance advisory consultancy. We advise on mergers, divestitures, listings, restructuring and cross-border transactions — built around the deal experience of our founder, who has led or advised on transactions across more than fifteen jurisdictions over twenty-five years as an investment banker and a listed-company corporate-finance principal.
The Managing Director is the practitioner. There is no analyst-to-partner relay and no junior handover — the principal you meet leads the work through to close.
Twenty-five years split between investment banking and the in-house Head of Group Corporate Services role at a Bursa Malaysia–listed multinational. Mandates have been lived from both sides.
Direct execution experience across Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, China, Japan, Korea, the Middle East and beyond.
A single-principal practice means a single point of confidentiality. Counterparty names and deal economics are not part of marketing materials.
Ho Ming Hon is the Managing Director of H2 Advisory. He spent the first part of his career as a senior investment banker advising Bursa Malaysia–listed PLCs on IPOs and restructuring, and the second part as Head of Group Corporate Services at a Bursa-listed multinational stationery group — leading its cross-border M&A, its Frankfurt Stock Exchange listing, and ultimately its EUR 168m flagship divestiture and MYR 695m capital repayment to shareholders.
Mandates have included transactions in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and the Middle East.
All counterparty names withheld under standing confidentiality obligations. Transaction details disclosed only to a level consistent with public filings.
c.12,000 SKUs across two heritage brands; operations across Europe, LatAm, MENA and Asia. EUR 136m cash + EUR 31.8m debt assumption.
Composite structure understood to be the first of its kind in Germany. Lead — transaction architecture, BaFin engagement, jurisdictional sequencing.
Followed by a 20-sen special cash distribution to shareholders aggregating ~RM120m.
Transformed a Bursa-listed entity from logistics into a global stationery principal.
PE investor realised ~269% total return over four years (~67% p.a.) on subsequent divestiture and capital repayment.
Scheme under s.176(3) of the Companies Act 1965. Trading resumption 1 April 2003.
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