Abris Capital Partners

Abris Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm based in Warsaw, Poland, established in 2007. The firm specializes in management buyouts, acquisitions, and expansion capital investments, primarily targeting middle market companies in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. Abris seeks to acquire majority stakes in growth-stage companies across various sectors, including industrial, commercial, and services, as well as healthcare, technology, and logistics. The firm typically invests between €15 million and €75 million and aims for a typical investment period of three to five years. Abris Capital Partners is committed to implementing operational and strategic changes in its portfolio companies, helping them transition from public to private ownership when necessary. The firm avoids investments in certain high-risk industries and prefers companies with positive operational profits. Exits are generally achieved through trade sales, initial public offerings, or secondary sales. In addition to its Warsaw headquarters, Abris has offices in Leeds, Nicosia, and Bucharest.

Milorad Andjelic

Partner

Jim Archbold

Director of Responsible Investments

Milena Bogucka

Investment Analyst

Pawel Boksa

Partner & Vice President of Board

Tomasz Chrost

Investment Associate

Renata Durcova

Investment Associate

Matei Enache-Pommer

Investment Associate

Kamil Gajdzinski

Investment Associate

Pawel Gierynski

Managing Partner

Maciej Godek

Investment Associate

Tomasz Hajduk

Investment Manager

Wojciech Jezierski

Partner

Ewa Kacprzak-Olszewska

Finance and Admin Director

Edgar Kolesnik

Partner

Tomasz Kujawa

Partner

Elzbieta Lebiedzinska

Director of Fund'S Administration

Wojciech Lukawski

Partner, Head of Poland

Tomasz Maciejak

Technology Director

Ionut Marin

Investment Associate

Neil Milne

Co-Founder, Member of the Investment Committee & Chairman of the Partner's Board

Rafal Morlak

Investment Manager

Monika Nachyla

Partner

Monika Olczak

Investor Relations and Communications Manager

Grzegorz Piejka

Investment Operations Director

Paulina Pietkiewicz

Director of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer

Alexander Podvysotskiy

Investment Manager

Stephen Richmond

Partner & Chief Financial Officer

Cezar Scarlat

Partner

Robert Sroka

ESG Director

Adrian Stanculescu

Partner & Head of Romania

George Swirski

Co-Founder and Chairman

Hanna Turnau

Investment Associate

Sylwester Urbanek

Investment Director

Mihai Zamfir

Investment Manager

Past deals in Poland

Scanmed Multimedis

Acquisition in 2020
Scanmed Multimedis provides medical care services to individual patients and corporate customers.

Apaczka

Acquisition in 2020
Apaczka acts as a professional intermediary between SOHO and SME and largest courier companies, providing the highest quality logistics services for e-commerce and traditional industries.

Neauvia

Private Equity Round in 2018
Established in 2012 as a scientifically-based medical aesthetics company, Neauvia has evolved into a vibrant, high-growth multinational corporation with production sites and subsidiaries in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Poland. Neauvia’s mission is to facilitate health, well-being and beauty through innovation. Quality and safety—paramount to all they do—are achieved through the use of the highest-grade raw materials and the most advanced manufacturing technology in the world. Neauvia controls all product development and production to ensure their stringent standards are met.

WDX

Private Equity Round in 2018
WDX is a warehouse solution provider in Poland. WDX offers unique, modern logistics solutions, including the design and installation of integrated storage and transport systems in warehouses. This is especially important in the context of dynamic development of e-commerce, which would not have been possible without the support of innovative logistics services and products, helping clients optimize and accelerate warehouse processes.

Velvet CARE

Acquisition in 2018
Velvet CARE is one of the largest manufacturers of hygiene products in Poland. The company was founded in August 2013 but its roots go back to 1897. That is when, i.e. over 120 years ago, the paper mill in Klucze near Olkusz was established. For the last over 20 years the Velvet brand has been a leader in the paper industry in Poland and is present in the homes of millions of Poles.

Graal

Acquisition in 2016
Graal S.A. is a Polish company specializing in the production and sale of canned fish and meat products, along with prepared dinner meals packaged in jars and trays. Based in Wejherowo and founded in 1989, Graal offers a diverse array of fish products, including sardines, herrings, salmons, trouts, sprats, carps, breams, and various fish salads and spreads. The company markets its products under several brands, including Graal, SuperFish, Kuchnia STAROPOLSKA, SuperFish Prestige, and Koral. In addition to its core food production, Graal also provides consulting services. As of October 2016, the company transitioned to private ownership.

GetBack

Private Equity Round in 2016
GetBack S.A., founded in 2012 and based in Warsaw, Poland, specializes in debt collection services. The company acquires accounts receivable portfolios and manages investment portfolios comprising accounts receivable from closed-end investment funds. It conducts debt collection proceedings to facilitate the repayment of these receivables. In addition to its operations in Poland, GetBack has expanded its presence in the debt markets of Romania since 2014, Bulgaria since 2017, and Spain. The company operates under a license obtained in 2012 to manage securitized debt, collaborating with its own and third-party securitization funds administered by fund management companies. GetBack S.A. is a subsidiary of Emest Investments sp. z o.o.

CARGOUNIT

Private Equity Round in 2016
CARGOUNIT is a provides locomotives rental for Central Europe. Their locomotives, literally, pull forward the petrochemical industry, they also specialize in transport of raw materials and special cargo.

CheMeS

Private Equity Round in 2015
CheMeS is a modern printing company specialised in the production of self-adhesive labels, shrink sleeves and laminate tubes that has been operating for 25 years. The work and the passion have made this modest family investment transform into a powerful enterprise that achieves significant successes. CheMeS is a continuously developing company, investing in people and technologies whilst introducing new solutions. The only thing that remains intact is passion and a true working ethos so immanent in the Wielkopolska region.

DOT2DOT

Private Equity Round in 2015
DOT2DOT is a Polish packaging manufacturer. The DOT2DOT Group has been created by combining leading independent Polish packaging manufacturers. Since decades DOT2DOT has delivered the most complex projects and processed global packaging and labelling contracts.

Nest Bank

Private Equity Round in 2013
Nest Bank S.A. provides banking products and services for individual and business customers in Poland. The company offers saving accounts, loans, currency exchange, and mobile banking services. The company was formerly known as FM Bank PBP SA and changed its name to Nest Bank S.A. in 2016. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Novago

Acquisition in 2013
NOVAGO Sp. o.o. provides waste management services for municipalities in Poland. Its activities include municipal waste collection and treatment, waste landfilling, production of alternative fuel (RDF), and biogas production. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Mlawa, Poland. As of August 31, 2016, NOVAGO Sp. o.o. operates as a subsidiary of China Everbright International Ltd..

Mykogen Polsk

Acquisition in 2012
MYKOGEN POLSKA manufactures state-of-the-art phase III button mushroom substrate – substrate overgrown with mycelium. Among our clients are elite Polish and European button mushroom growers. Our technologies of substrate production are state-of-the-art and button mushrooms cultivated on our substrate are of top quality, which help drive the sales prices of your products. We help assure high yield, sustainable production. Button mushroom producers who take advantage of this technology gain competitive edge on both domestic and European markets. 40 years of tradition stand behind MYKOGEN POLSKA. Application of state-of-the-art solutions and equipment from leading manufacturers made Mykogen facilities one of the most technologically advanced facilities in Europe. Experienced team which has worked for us since the Karszew facility opened in 1999 plus along with strictly observed technical and health requirements result in a product that is appreciated both by our customers and by button mushroom consumers in Poland and abroad.

Siodemka

Acquisition in 2011
Siodemka S.A. provides courier services.

Masterlease

Acquisition in 2010
Masterlease is the polish car fleet management markets. The range of services rovided by the company includes leasing and full scope car fleet management services.

Masterlease

Private Equity Round in 2010
Masterlease is the polish car fleet management markets. The range of services rovided by the company includes leasing and full scope car fleet management services.

Alumetal

Acquisition in 2010
Alumetal is a Polish manufacturer of secondary aluminium alloys. Alumetal operates from multiple manufacturing plants and is one of the largest European manufacturers of secondary aluminium alloys. Its manufacturing operations have been expanded and upgraded under Abris ownership and the company now operates the most technically advanced production facilities of their type.