Welcome Note
FCI is a newly established full-service investment banking and management consulting firm that specializes in providing advisory services and customized solutions to companies and shareholders seeking to accelerate growth and maximize shareholder value. FCI’s full range of investment banking services includes advisory for mergers & acquisitions, advisory in sourcing of debt and equity capital, advisory for balance sheet capital restructuring as well as business valuation services in support of a variety of purposes.
FCI’s team brings together in depth experience in the investment banking, capital markets and private equity sectors having being involved in more than 70 transactions in all the above stated areas. FCI with a base in Cyprus covers the South Eastern European region with particular focus on Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria.
George Katsouris
Managing Director
Our Approach
Most situations require a customized approach to accommodate the specific objectives. However, we work diligently across the five phases from planning and analysis to marketing and due diligence through negotiation and closing.
Advisory Services
Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory
Debt Capital Markets Advisory
Our Team
George Katsouris
Managing Director :: george.katsouris@f-c-i.com.cy
George has more than 25 years experience in investment Banking. He has been involved in more than 50 deals covering all areas including M&A, Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets in a variety of industrial sectors. He has been involved in privatizations and acquisitions with both financial and strategic investors. Before setting-up the Oberion structure, he was head of the Investment Banking dept. of Emporiki Bank managing a team of 15 people, in charge of M&A, Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets, from 2002 until the acquisition of Emporiki Bank by Alpha Bank in July 2013. His track record in the M&A includes among others the mobile telephony in Greece, the privatization of natural gas network companies, the privatization of Olympic Airlines, ELBO and the horseracing mutual betting license. More recently, he completed deals together with Crédit Agricole CIB such as the acquisition of a minority stake of Chinese group Fosun into Folli- Follie, the acquisition of HDFS by Dufry and the privatization of Athens Water Company (EYDAP-pending). He was involved in major Initial Public Offerings (OPAP, PPC, EYDAP etc.), debt restructurings (Embedos, Alfa-Alfa, Delta Dairy), LBOs (Neochimiki). George holds a Chemical Engineering degree from EFT in Lyon, France and an MBA from INSEAD.