WHO WE ARE

Crimson Capital (Crimson) is a leading international investment bank and management consulting firm. Established in 1991 to provide privatization and restructuring expertise to emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Crimson has gone global, delivering dynamic development assistance across five continents. With offices in Atlanta, Prague, Skopje, Prishtin, Tirana and Beijing, Crimson’s principals and consultants deploy proven experience and professional know-how in a wide range of services and sectors.

Crimson is more than just a business: we open doors, create business opportunities and deliver meaningful development results. We partner with people and organizations committed to accomplishing positive change, and we equip our clients with new capabilities, resources, and know-how. We believe in hard work as a positive experience, and in creating change one person, one opportunity, and one project at a time.

Since 2011, Crimson China, led by Crimson Capital Group Chairman Mart Bakal, has been intensively involved in developing investment opportunities for the senior living business in China. Its staff has analyzed hundreds of properties in regions such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong and Hainan.

SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Facilitated over $8.2 billion in foreign direct investment, debt and equity finance, PPPs, privatizations, guarantees, and exports

  • Created over new 50,000 direct jobs

  • Designed and operationalized five highly successful finance, investment and guarantee funds providing finance to MSMEs, entrepreneurs, women-owned companies and minority owned businesses

  • Trained over 10,000 local government officials, bankers, enterprise managers, entrepreneurs, consultants, and association members in 40 key business and technical subject areas

  • Technical assistance and training to + 130 financial institutions in Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Georgia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Tanzania, West Bank and Gaza, and Uganda.

  • Created regional and international trade linkages with thousands of companies from over 30 countrie

  • Privatized over 200 state-owned enterprises into profitable, well-managed companies

  • Structured more than$255 million in investments in alternative and renewable energy, and over $2 billion in infrastructure projects

  • Enhanced the growth and modernization of agribusiness in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa


Key Areas of Expertise

  • Economic inclusion

  • Banking & Finance

  • Macro-economic policy & institutional development

  • Legal and regulatory enabling environment

  • Public financial management

  • Domestic resource mobilization

  • Public-private dialogue

  • Digital development

  • Competitiveness and business growth

  • Workforce development