Tomáš Klápště, Managing Director of Patria Finance and Head of Corporate Finance, is responsible for management of Patria’s Corporate Finance services and major projects in the field of M&A, IPO and valuations. He has more than 17 years of corporate finance & capital markets experience during which he worked on many benchmark deals, including: divestitures of Prague Stock Exchange, Žabka, GTS Group, Techniline, Fortuna Group, Hasil, Gumotex‘ subsidiary, Czech International, Strojírny Poldi, PVT, MSA, ZPS Energetika, Zenitel Colsys, advisory to ČEZ on sale of many non-core assets (ECKG, ECK, TDK, EOP), acquisition of Seznam and PSE for Tiger Global Management, ERSTE Bank on acquisition of Česká spořitelna, Skanska on acquisition of IPS, or ČSA’s Duty Free for Aelia/Lagardere. Among his important clients are also KMV, PKN Orlen, SUEZ Environment, Telephoneica O2, MOL, GZ Digital Media and Metrostav.
Prior to joining Patria in 1999, Tomáš worked in Expandia Finance. His execution mandates include the Leveraged Buy Out of Later Chrudim and the privatizations of metallurgical companies KCM, Alumina, and Preskov in Bulgaria. In 1994–1996 he worked in a mutual fund as Equity Analyst focused on voucher privatisation.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Patria Finance, a.s. and Supervisory Board of Patria Finance Slovakia, a.s.
Tomáš holds a Masters degree from the University of Economics, Prague and an MBA degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in the US Business School program