1375 – Interim CEO – Post-Divestiture Wind-down & Liquidation

About Our Client:

Our client is a well-established international industrial engineering group operating across Central and Eastern Europe. As part of a strategic restructuring programme, its Romanian subsidiary is entering the final phase of its lifecycle.

The assignment focuses on protecting remaining company assets, overseeing their orderly disposal, ensuring ongoing legal and regulatory compliance, managing the gradual wind-down of the organisation, and leading the legal entity through to its final closure.

CE Interim has been retained to identify and manage an experienced Interim CEO who will lead this assignment on behalf of the shareholder.

Project Description:

Reporting directly to the shareholder, you will assume executive responsibility for the Romanian legal entity during its final phase of operation. Your role is to provide stable leadership, maintain governance, protect shareholder interests, and ensure the orderly execution of all activities required until the company is formally closed.

Your mandate will include:

• Acting as the executive representative of the shareholder in Romania.
• Leading the structured wind-down of the remaining organisation.
• Protecting company assets and ensuring their orderly sale, transfer or disposal.
• Managing the phased reduction of the remaining workforce and external service providers.
• Coordinating legal, financial, tax and regulatory activities required until final liquidation.
• Working closely with external legal advisers, accountants, auditors and local authorities.
• Providing transparent reporting and recommendations to the shareholder throughout the assignment.
• Ensuring the company is closed in a controlled, compliant and commercially responsible manner.

Interim Manager Required Skills:

You are an experienced interim executive who is comfortable leading organisations through periods of ownership transition, restructuring or controlled closure.

Your background may include:

• Former CEO, Managing Director, Country Manager, CRO or senior restructuring executive.
• Leadership of business sales, company exits, post-divestiture assignments or legal entity closures.
• Experience within private equity portfolio companies, family-owned businesses or international corporate groups.
• Strong commercial judgement combined with a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style.
• Ability to protect shareholder interests while maintaining credibility with employees, advisers and external stakeholders.
• Experience managing asset disposal, governance and regulatory compliance.
• Fluent Romanian is essential.
• Professional English is required. German would be considered an advantage.

Key Requirements:

This interim assignment requires practical executive experience in business transitions, shareholder representation and company closure.

We are particularly interested in executives who have led assignments involving:

• Company wind-downs or legal entity closures.
• Business sales, divestitures or exit processes.
• Private equity portfolio exits or post-transaction leadership assignments.
• Asset disposal and value preservation.
• Romanian corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
• Collaboration with legal advisers, auditors, tax advisers and public authorities.

Type of Assignment:

Interim

Scope of Interim Assignment:

Company Divestiture and Liquidation

Functional Area of the Interim Manager:

General Management

Location:

Romania, Bucharest area

Duration:

6-12 months

Start Date:

August – Early September 2026

Why work with us?

CE Interim delivers proven executive interim leaders within 72 hours across borders, cultures, and industries. We specialize in high-impact interim management for private equity firms, family offices, and global corporations facing moments of transition: digital transformation, market entry, operational turnaround, post-merger integration, or crisis.

What sets us apart is not just the speed or depth of our network, it’s how we lead. Every engagement is personally guided by a CE Interim managing partner: former CEOs, CFOs, or COOs who’ve been on your side of the table, steering organizations through high-stakes decisions.

With a global talent pool and operational reach spanning Europe, the USA, and the Middle East, we don’t fill roles, we build trust, lead transitions, and deliver outcomes.

As part of the Valtus Alliance, the world’s largest alliance of Executive Interim Management companies, we ensure seamless international execution through 25+ offices and 80+ senior partners in over 50 countries.

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