MFE to acquire 32.9% stake in Impresa: advisors
MFE–MediaForEurope, the holding company of the Italian Mediaset group, has signed binding agreements with Portuguese Impresa and its controlling shareholder, Impreger. Under these agreements, Impresa will issue new shares, and MFE will purchase them, giving MFE a 32.9% ownership stake and the same proportion of voting rights in Impresa.
Impresa is a Portuguese media groups, operating eight TV channels and the newspaper Expresso, and is listed on the Lisbon Stock Exchange, with a strong footprint in Portuguese-speaking markets worldwide. Closing is expected in the first quarter of 2026 and remains subject to the usual conditions precedent, including confirmation by the competent Portuguese authority of the exemption for MFE from the obligation to launch a takeover bid.
Advisors
MFE was advised by Pérez-Llorca through its Lisbon and Madrid offices, on Portuguese and Spanish law matters, and by NautaDutilh on Dutch law. Impresa was represented by PLMJ. On corporate and capital markets aspects, MFE also relied on BonelliErede.
On Pérez-Llorca’s side, the team included Manuel Cordeiro Ferreira, corporate/capital markets partner; Gonçalo Capela Godinho, corporate partner; Isa Rodrigues, corporate lawyer; Inês Dias Lopes, corporate / capital markets lawyer; Francisco Mendes Amaral, corporate lawyer; Rita Leandro Vasconcelos, EU / competition partner; and Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, public law partner.
On PLMJ’s side, the team was led by Diogo Perestrelo, co-head partner of corporate M&A, and André Figueiredo, head partner of banking and finance and capital markets. The rest of the team is composed of Manuel Sequeira, Guilherme Martins Pereira, Tiago Belinha (Corporate M&A); Raquel Azevedo, partner Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira, senior counsel, Teresa Proença Varão, associate (Banking and Finance); Martim Valente, senior counsel (Competition and EU Law); Pedro Lomba, partner, and Rita Costa Sousa, senior associate (TMT).
On the picture, from left to right: Manuel Cordeiro Ferreira, Gonçalo Capela Godinho, Diogo Perestrelo and André Figueiredo.
