Konstantinos Karakostas
Corporate & Investment Advisory
“For more than 20 years, I build trusted relationships with entrepreneurs, companies and investors, utilizing decades of multidisciplinary experience in business , finance and corporate and investment advisory. ”
Approach
“No one solution fits all”. Every company is unique and deserves services tailored to its character and culture.
Having been a CEO & entrepreneur myself, I have experienced first-hand the value of personalized advisory and the importance of trusted relationships.
Values
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Relationship : We get to know each other well. I respect how my clients work & they understand how I work.
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Collaboration : We work together combining our know-how and experiences
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Integration : I work as an extension of my customers business
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Value : My services are tangible & immediately add value
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Honesty : I only assume tasks that I have experience in and certainty about their success
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Hands-on : I personally do the work from A to Z
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The extra mile : I assist on multiple fronts – even outside my mandate -as my customers are my partners
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Competitive : I honor the money my customers pay for my services
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Services
Corporate
Successfully addressing strategic issues demands independence, objectivity, experience and specific skillsets.
Strategic Planning
Plan the ideal roadmap to growth. This also includes thorough industry and competition analysis & assessment of alternative scenarios that identifies opportunities and differentiation points that create value.
Business Plans & Valuations
In line with international best practices, global valuation methods and industry specific standards. Always adapted to the nature & specific characteristics of the company.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions advisory across the whole spectrum. Streamline transaction processes that minimize risks, costs, and time to completion. Including target analysis and valuation, approach and negotiation, deal structuring, due diligence and transaction closing process.
Financing
Fund raisings from existing or new sources & investors (Strategic, Private Equity & VC, “Angel” and others).
Trusted by some of the biggest Greek companies to prepare & approve investment plans and secure funding from European Financing & Strategic Initiatives.
Explore alternative funding options, from debt to equity to quasi-equity.
About
More than 35 years of senior experience in Investment Banking, Capital Markets, M&A, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, and numerous companies from diverse industries.
Served from positions of CEO, Managing Director, Board member, Executive Director and Management Advisor in international and domestic Financial Institutions, Private Equity Firms and Companies.
Among other, Head of Investment Banking in Société Générale, Managing Director in Marfin Investment Group and Head of Equity Research in Alpha Bank Group and 20+ years of Investment & Corporate Advisory experience, with a large number of international and domestic companies.
Holds Master’s degree in Economics and Capital Markets from the London School of Economics, Master’s degree in Operational Research from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and first class Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Athens.
Experience
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Led many companies to go public by listing their shares in the Athens Stock Exchange, including names such as Hellenic Technodomiki (now ELLAKTOR), Jumbo, Technical Olympic, among others.
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Pioneered in structuring and placing numerous of equity-linked issues, including convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds and bonds with warrants,
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Advised decades of acquisitions including highly profiled transactions such as, the acquisition of Delta Dairies by Marfin Investment Group, the acquisition of Goodies by Delta Dairies, the acquisition of Hellenic Securities by Marfin Investment Group and many more.
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Advised cross-border transactions, primary in the M&A domain, to mention few, CNP Assurance (France) to identify suitable acquisition targets in Greece, SATO Group (Furniture) to acquire a strategic stake in DENKA Holdings, Denmark (owner of Bo Concept Brand) , McCain, Canada (world leader in pre-processed food) to identify acquisition targets in Greece, and many more.
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As a Senior Management Advisor, I advised corporate groups on numerous strategic issues. Indicatively, some such groups are Technical Olympic (Construction, Renewable Energy, Hospitality), European Finance Associates (EFA) (Aerospace & Defense), Zakcret (Sportswear Retail), SATO (furniture and retail),among others.
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Structured and raised expansion or refinance capital for many companies, indicatively Brockmans Gin, UK (premium gin producer), Zeincro, UK (Drug Development Services), Marfin Investment Group (Financial Sector), among others.
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Developed close ties and exclusive collaborations with finance sector companies, Private Equity Funds and Family Offices over their whole investment portfolio and advisory activity.
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Prepared and supported business plans & feasibility studies for investments approved under the Strategic Investments Law or European Development Programs with names such as Viohalco, Hellenic Metals and others.