Peninsula Corporate Finance is an independent advisory boutique providing tailor-made Corporate Finance Advisory and Strategic Management Consultancy services to its clients, with over 25 years of local and international experience.
PCF serves as an expert and reliable business partner for companies’ resource needs for growth, investment, recovery, or restructuring, either by raising external funding through different types of loans or by providing internal resources and organic growth through new partnerships or acquisitions.
PCF’s long-standing relationships with business owners and financial institutions play a crucial role in accurately analyzing the needs, developing solutions in line with the company’s strategy and meeting these solutions from local or global financial markets.
Especially in mergers and acquisitions, PCF benefits its clients not only with its financial expertise but also with its strategic experience and close cooperation with its solution partners in order to establish long-term partnerships in which strategic and financial objectives are combined.
In companies’ growth processes or operational restructuring to become more efficient and profitable, PCF provides services that improve asset quality, mitigate potential risks, and enable strategic planning.
PCF aims to help companies identify the cyclical and long-term structural problems and macroeconomic risks they face in this process while ensuring profitable growth in global competition.
As a trusted companion for investors and business owners, PCF develops long-term strategies for wealth planning and management to protect the value created, pass it on to future generations and continue to grow it.
We are a dependable partner to our clients, offering effective and result-oriented counsel, innovative concepts, and top-notch execution to support them in reaching their objectives.
Since great ideas come from competent people, PCF has always been a firm that competes on the strength of its ideas. We invest in the most talented individuals in each of the disciplines where we conduct business, placing a high value on intelligence, consideration, and discernment.
Our flat organizational structure and collegial, collaborative atmosphere enable innovative ideas and creative thinking to propel our business ahead and launch careers.
Ahmet has over 25 years of experience as a consultant and finance executive in Turkey and abroad. Throughout his career, he has been involved in various investment banking activities, including M&A transactions, debt restructuring and project finance activities.
He has extensive experience in various industries, including energy, retail, consumer products, building materials, property development, logistics and food. Prior to co-founding PCF, he held various executive roles in companies under the Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund between 2011 and 2019.
Ahmet is also a serial entrepreneur in technology ventures in Turkey and abroad and serves on the advisory board, executive committee, and as a board member of various companies.
Bertan is a seasoned consultant and serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of corporate finance, strategic consultancy and financial advisory; concentrated in structured finance, turnarounds, restructuring and M&A advisory.
Specialized in middle and upper middle market companies’ access to international debt and capital markets, he has undertaken financial and business due diligence, execution and closing of both debt financing and M&A advisory transactions for clients in financial institutions, construction, retail, textile manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceutical, machinery, energy and shipping industries.
His prior and current ventures include investment banking and consultancy operations, retail chain investment, smart city solutions and payment solutions FinTech.
Throughout his 16-year banking career, Fatih worked as an economist and strategist and held managerial role in various areas under the Global Markets. As an economist, Fatih has a respected position in Turkey, and prominently featured in the print and broadcast media for many years. In his banking career, he has contributed to the widespread use of derivatives in the domestic market and made significant contributions to the financial risk management of corporate industry. His academic work in the field of early warning systems has been used by both public authorities and corporates.
Since 2016, Fatih has acted as advisor and been active in corporate boards and executive committees, both as an active member and as an advisor. His areas of expertise include debt restructuring, IPOs and alternative capital market instruments, financial risk management and as well as macroeconomic research, and also provides strategic advice on growth and sustainability.
Kadri is a seasoned corporate finance professional with over 25 years of industry experience. Throughout his career, he has assumed diverse roles within conglomerates, investment banks, and private equity firms. Kadri has actively participated in privatization projects, initial public offerings (IPOs), cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, and private equity investments.
His extensive expertise spans across multiple industries, including automotive, cement, building materials, healthcare, telecom, and retail.
Following a 20-year professional career at Turkish blue-chip companies, Kadri moved to the advisory side providing services to both Turkish and international companies, as well as private equity firms.
Furthermore, Kadri currently holds board membership positions in various private and publicly traded companies, contributing to his broad and comprehensive understanding of corporate dynamics.