Gokhan Tezcan, CFA - Managing Director
Gokhan is the founder and Managing Director of Palmera Capital. Gokhan has over 15 years of investment banking experience in debt/credit markets. He has extensive expertise in advising and assisting businesses in raising debt financing, and arranging, structuring and executing a wide range of debt products in public and private markets (loans, bonds, structured finance, acquisition finance, project finance, commodity finance, trade finance, private placements), as well as debt advisory and re-structurings in Emerging Markets.
Prior to forming Palmera, Gokhan was the Head of Debt Capital Markets for Central & Eastern Europe and Turkey at the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (RBS) in London , responsible for the origination platform across all debt products for corporates and financial institutions in the region. He served a wide range of key clients including Anadolu Group, Arcelik, Coca Cola Icecek, Dogan Group, Dogus Group, ENKA, Koc Holding, Limak, Intercity, Isbank, Ronesans, Sabiha Gokcen Airport, TAV Airports, Turkcell, Turk Telekom, Ulker in Turkey, Evraz, Integra, Mechel, Metalloinvest, Sistema, Rusal in Russia, KMG-KazMuniaGas in Kazakhstan, Metinvest in Ukraine, Azerenerji in Azerbaijan, PKN Orlen, KGHM in Poland and KKCG in Czech Republic. He advised on / arranged debt financings in excess of USD 20 billion.
During his time at RBS and ABN AMRO, Gokhan also worked in a variety of positions in London and Istanbul, including as Director in the Structured Finance / Debt Capital Markets Central & Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa, Director in Credit Portfolio Strategy and prior to that in Debt/Loan Products at ABN AMRO Turkey. Gokhan started his career at Interbank Turkey in corporate coverage.
Gokhan received his MBA degree from the London Business School and BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University. He is a CFA charterholder.
Gokhan is married with two children. He is a sports enthusiast and has taken part in competitive events including the London Marathon, Istanbul Marathon, London Triathlon, Hever Castle Triathlon and London-Surrey 100mile Cycling Sportives.
gtezcan@palmeracap.com
Tel : +44 2034321580
Mob : +44 7798668245