Creation of a real estate portfolio across Europe
N&T are a couple of extremely busy executives of major US corporations at CEO and MD level. They are based in Europe and both travel intensively from the USA to Asia. They wished to buy real estate properties to both diversify their current financial assets, and set up a family home for the future. They also wished to take advantage of favorable financial leverage while interest rates were at a historical low.
Since 2008, Dergatcheff S.A has built for and with them an international real estate portfolio with properties in the UK, France, Spain and Switzerland.
For each property, Dergatcheff S.A. assessed the financial situation and N&T's long term goals. Together they defined a strategy tailored to their financial expectations and their personal tastes, real estate always involving an emotional input in addition to the prospect of financial return. Read more
Advisory of the CEO and founder of a new financial company based in London with a focus on emerging markets
AVMT is a London based consulting and capital services firm serving wealthy European family offices and international firms. It was founded in 2004 when Alexis turned entrepreneur after a lengthy and successful management career in Business, Finance, Law and Diplomacy.
Dergatcheff S.A. has counseled him since the onset and over the years significantly contributed to:
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ADVISORY FOR A MAJOR RUSSIAN HOLDING (NO 100 privately Russian Co)
Dergatcheff S.A. advised the main shareholder of XYZ, a major Russian holding company owning assets in diverse sectors such as one of the leaders in steel trading company, one of the most successful retail companies of the last decade and successfully expanding in the regions, a bank and various real estate companies.
The initial challenge was to overcome the lack of overall internal visibility among the scattered business lines that had been locally set up and had developed at varying paces at times of evolving economic and regulatory environment
Dergatcheff S.A.'s invaluable advice led to:
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Acquisition and development of business assets in EU
Mikhail is a partner and an advisor to top 10 Russian businessmen. Having graduated from one of the top US business school, Mikhail had already high level experience and network, not only in CIS region, but also abroad. When he decided to acquire and expand his personal business in Western Europe, Mikhail turned to us for advice.
Mikhail had already acquired a factory in Western Europe, but had to face unexpected challenges. He had a clear and original vision, as many Russian businessmen who aren't afraid to step into new territories and new fields of activity. He understood perfectly that many things were about to change in the European energy industry and he intended to become a pioneer in the development of green energy.
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Family relocation in Europe and Switzerland, comprehensive services
Dergatcheff's chief purpose as a financial advisory company is to help our clients to be more profitable. But our work, at times, goes far beyond!
Vladimir, a successful businessman operating in Russia, and his wife Anastasia wished for their family to avoid long Russian winters and for their 3 children to be brought up in a francophone country. He was ready to run his business by commuting to and from his home country.
They turned to Dergatcheff S.A., early July for relocation to be effective by September, in time for their children to start school.
The challenge in a very short timeframe was to determine the target location, identify rental properties meeting the clients' requirements, negotiate a rental contract, secure residency permit for a non EU family and ensure the children's school enrolment.
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Advising the CEO of a young bank in a fast growing economy of the CIS region towards national and international development
BBB Bank was founded in 2007 by shareholders with a clearly defined long term vision, with a European orientation and strict reliability and transparency operating criteria in a country with lasting remains of soviet procedures.
Dergatcheff S.A.'s prior work with the CEO on other matters had allowed them to build mutual trust and understanding so he was asked to join the project at an early stage. Two challenges were to be taken up:
• Develop on the national market in the face of local competition with a 20 years headway
• Venture abroad to Western markets where, at best, the country was barely known or, at worst, the country had a negative reputation.
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Advisory to a Hedge Fund
Fund XYZ is a Global Macro hedge fund whose return since inception in Oct. 2004 is + 111.70 %. During this period, the fund was positive in 2008 when most managers in the fund industry endured substantial losses. The offices of the Advisory Company are located in London, but the team also has people in Europe and in Turkey. Dergatcheff S.A. himself has been involved as external advisor for the past 7 years.
Fund XYZ has achieved this impressive and stable performance thanks to an extensive knowledge of the financial markets (all the fund's managers and advisors have more than 20 years market experience) including specialist expertise in emerging markets which have greatly contributed to the performance of the recent years. Read more
Building on 17 years of experience in finance and management, of which 9 years with Russia and other emerging CIS countries, Dergatcheff S.A. began his independent consulting work in Moscow in 2002 at a time when most foreigners had deserted Russia due to the 1998 crisis. He was among the first of a new generation of financial advisors to enter the Russian market and decided to bet on the signs of coming improvement in the Russian economic and regulatory conditions. He also understood the need to be close to his clients, the new serious Russian entrepreneurs.
Among his first assignments he advised Dmitry Pyatkhin, the CEO of Sovlink, an investment bank owned, at that time, by Viktor Vekselberk and Len Blavatnik, on the development of new financial services in Russia and new foreign partnerships.
Dergatcheff S.A. pursued his advisory work over a period of fast economic growth with owners of medium and large businesses located in Moscow, Russian regions as well as in other CIS countries.
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