Mesto Capital
The principals

Two operators, complementary skill sets, proven track records.

Management · Legal · Operations
Luka Pregelj

A Slovenian entrepreneur, executive, consultant and transactional lawyer.

Interblock Group — Post-Acquisition Integrations (Office of the CFO), 2025–2026. Acts as a CEO/CFO proxy on cross-border post-acquisition integrations across a multi-entity international group, turning acquisition strategy into executable plans across finance, operations and governance, and leading cost-synergy execution and reporting standardisation.
Quantifly — Founder & CEO, 2021–2025 (exited). Founded, scaled and exited a B2B organisational-diagnostics SaaS serving 100+ clients, with full P&L accountability; negotiated the exit, including structure and post-close transition.
Lex Lucas Consulting — Founder & Principal, 2017–2. 20+ M&A and complex commercial mandates for founder-led businesses (€10M–€100M+): SPAs, SHAs, investment and financing agreements; cost-optimisation, EBITDA-improvement and digitalisation/AI engagements across CEE.
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz — Corporate / M&A, 2015–2017. Cross-border M&A including the €100M+ buyer-side acquisition of Adria Mobil by Trigano (CEE Legal Matters Deal-of-the-Year nominee).
Executive MBA (AI in Business) and Master of Laws (Corporate & Commercial Law), University of Ljubljana.

Founder of Pot do uspeha, a youth-education non-profit (30+ summer schools, 600+ participants).

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Finance · M&A · Search
Samuel Garner

A private-equity and M&A professional executing transactions across Central Europe and the United States.

PRVA Capital Partners — PE Associate, 2024–2026. Deal contact on €10M–€50M mid-market transactions across Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and Austria; multi-party (legal, financial, commercial) due-diligence coordination; fund fundraising and LP communications; regional deal sourcing.
ION Advisory — M&A Associate, 2023–2024. Sell-side M&A advisory; execution, models and analysis, including advising an EU-leading business-software developer on transaction.
Basileus Solutions — Founder, 2023. Built an AI-driven fintech for lower-mid-market M&A deal execution; wound down after a better-capitalised competitor emerged.
Polar Peak Capital — PE Analyst, 2022–2023. Hands-on inside a US search fund: diligence and sourcing with 100+ bankers, brokers and owners.
Cyprium Partners (PE, $2B invested) and Members Capital Advisors ($3B PE / ~$350M VC). Diligence, valuation and LP-facing materials.
BSBA, Finance & Quantitative Economics, The Ohio State University. Bloomberg Market Concepts; WSP Financial Modeling & Valuation.

References available upon request.
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