Business 3 min read By Arthur Ellington
Autonom Services buys Business Lease România from Dutch AutoBinck group
Romanian car rental group Autonom Services has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Business Lease România from the Dutch family group AutoBinck.
Romanian car rental group Autonom Services has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Business Lease România from the Dutch family group AutoBinck. The deal gives Autonom full control of a company that provides mobility services and operational leasing in Romania.
Autonom, founded by brothers Dan and Marius Ștefan, announced the signing of the contract for the acquisition of 100 percent of the corporate shares of Business Lease Romania S.R.L. The announcement was made on a Monday, according to reports of the deal. Business Lease România supplies mobility solutions and operational leasing services, a segment that has grown as companies seek flexible access to vehicles rather than outright ownership. Autonom describes itself as a Romanian rental group, and the acquisition brings a leasing operation into its portfolio alongside its rental activity.
The transaction is a move by a domestic player to consolidate its position in the local market. For AutoBinck, the sale marks the exit of a Dutch family-owned group from its Romanian leasing business. The source material describes AutoBinck as a family group based in the Netherlands, and the sale ends its direct ownership of Business Lease România. The terms of the deal, including the price, were not detailed in the material available for this report, and no statements from either party beyond the announcement of the signing were included in the package.
In a separate development in the same economic landscape, the Chinese group SANY is expanding its investments in Romania through the full acquisition of a company developing a 153 MW battery energy storage project in the Borzești area of Bacău County. That transaction forms part of a wider plan by SANY involving investments of more than one billion euros in Romania, according to reports on the deal. The project is described as a battery-based energy storage facility, and the two transactions, one in vehicle mobility and one in energy infrastructure, illustrate continued corporate activity in Romania across different sectors.
Both deals are reported as completed acquisitions of full ownership stakes, which signals that the buyers are taking complete control rather than entering through minority positions. For readers following the Romanian business market, the Autonom deal shows domestic groups consolidating assets in leasing and mobility, while the SANY transaction shows foreign capital moving into energy storage. Further details on closing dates, regulatory approvals and the financial terms of either transaction were not provided in the supplied material.
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