Konstantinos Georgiadis is a Managing Director with Teneo’s Financial Advisory business and leads our Middle East debt and capital advisory services.
Kosta has over 23 years of experience in corporate and investment banking, as well as corporate finance advisory services. For the last 16 years Kosta has been based in the Middle East and has led debt and capital advisory services at BNP Paribas, Deloitte and, most recently, Mashreq Bank.
Kosta has been intimately involved in several landmark transactions in the region and has successfully led many of these deals, allowing him to build strong relationships with a broad base of strategic clients, capital providers and other professional services providers. Kosta has covered various industry sectors, but has special expertise in real estate, with a track record of successfully concluding mega real estate project development financing. One particular real estate transaction led by Kosta was awarded two Global Islamic Bank Deal of the Year Awards in 2016.
Selected Project Experience:
- Structured and acted as Mandated Lead Arranger for a BHD 130m in US$ equivalent bank club refinancing of Marassi Galleria and the adjoining Vida Hotel and Resort for Eagle Hills Diyar in Bahrain.
- Structured and acted as Mandated Lead Arranger for an AED 1.8bn bank club refinancing of Dubai Outlet Mall.
- Structured and acted as Mandated Lead Arranger in a development financing package totaling AED 850m for a residential development on Palm Jumeirah for a development consortium led by Omniyat Holding.
- Co-Mandated Lead Arranger on an AED 17bn bank club financing for Nakheel PJSC in the refinancing of a retail portfolio and a funding package for the relaunch of Palm Jebel Ali.
- Co-Mandated Lead Arranger on an AED 2.6bn syndicated refinancing of ICD Brookfield Place.
- Led the buy-side debt financing, acquisition process and regulatory approvals on behalf of a consortium to acquire the minority shareholders’ interests in Damac Properties PJSC and subsequent de-listing from the Dubai Financial Market.
- Led the buy-side financing as lead financial advisor for a GFH led consortium of investors in the US$ 112.5m leveraged buy-out of The Entertainer.
- Lead Financial Advisor in the arrangement of a SAR 250m facility for a new steel manufacturing facility in Al Kharj, KSA for Al Watania Steel of Qatar.
- Structured and was Lead Financial Advisor in the SAR 3.6bn debt financing of Alinma Jeddah Economic City Fund to finance the cost to complete the world’s tallest (+1km high) building and its surrounding mega real estate development project located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- As Lead Financial Advisor, arranged an AED 500m development financing facility to fund the cost to complete of Duja Tower in Dubai for Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group.
- As Lead Financial Advisor, arranged a US$ 175 million Sale & Lease Back of a Hospital for Saudi German Hospitals Group in Dammam, KSA.
- As Lead Financial Advisor, facilitated the amendment and extension of an AED 130 million facility for the Bonnington Hotel in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai.
- Provided corporate finance advice and structuring support to a Saudi Government-owned entity in deploying US$ 400m of grant money by way of a “debt like” structure into related entities.
- Provided corporate finance advice and execution support in several joint venture agreements, buy-side and sell-side acquisition processes and capital structure optimizations.