SECTOR FOCUS
While our work in M&A is largely industry agnostic, our primary area of expertise is in logistics, metal & plastics packaging, food processing and retailing.
buy-side and sell-side advisory
We assist our buy-side domestic and international clients in seeking out targets for acquisition and advise them throughout the M&A process, including during the negotiation, due diligence, documentation and completion phases.
Our sell-side work involves evaluating our clients' attractiveness for a purchaser and liaising with potential investors, as well as assistance at each phase of the sell-side M&A process.
long-term financing
We work closely with supranational development banks and other development financial institutions in securing long-term debt to finance our clients' capital expenditure needs, growing net working capital requirements and refinancing of their existing short-term liabilities.
strategic initiatives
We act as non-executive members or advisors to our clients' Board of Directors and assist them implement strategic initiatives and optimise their financial performance and value in anticipation of a future sale of shares.
advising clients since 2009
While our work in M&A is largely industry agnostic, our primary area of expertise is in logistics, metal & plastics packaging, food processing and retailing.
Our main working principle is built around maintaining close and long-term relationships with senior management among Turkey’s blue-chip companies and investors. We believe that best fits are achieved through targeted searches as opposed to a blanket approach, which often results in loss of reputation, especially for the seller.
We offer highly selective, personalised work to fit the investors' and sellers' circumstances and conducted in the utmost discreet manner. This requires the involvement of senior and well-established industry leaders at all phases of the process.
Since our founding in 2009, we have advised on buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions in sectors as diverse as online retailing, logistics, packaging, seed production.
Our long-term work with our clients often aims to
prepare them for a future corporate transaction, such
as a share sale.
We assist our clients implement strategic initiatives,
formalise growth plans, help them optimise their
balance sheets and improve their profitability.
While a majority of our clients are domiciled in Turkey, we have advised on outbound investments of our Turkish clients in numerous jurisdictions in Europe and Asia. We have also assisted a number of European and Far Eastern clients with their inbound investments in Turkey.
a merger of industry experience and investment banking
Founder
Mr. Kesrelioğlu is one of the country’s leading experts in food production, marketing and sales as well as a well-known name among the food and fast moving consumer goods retailing sectors. Prior to co-founding Aeon, Erdal worked for 20 years with Unilever in Turkey and in the United Kingdom as a sales and logistics director, 10 of which was spent as part of the company’s Board. Erdal was also the Chief Executive Officer of Tat Konserve, where he oversaw the consolidation of Koç Holding’s food-related assets. During his time in the industry, Erdal founded Efficient Consumer Response, held board positions in the Vegetable Oils and Fats Industrials Association, Milk and Dairy Products Producers Association, Tomato Pastes Exporters’ and Producers’ Association and the Pasta Industrialists Association of Turkey. Erdal holds numerous non-executive board memberships in the country’s leading companies. Mr. Kesrelioğlu is an electrical engineer by training and holds an executive MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Founder
Mr. Özvardar is a co-founder of Aeon and has 21 years of experience in consulting for multi-national companies and executing large scale corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions in an international setting. Murat started his career as a management consultant with Kearney (then AT Kearney) in San Francisco and London, where he focused on strategic improvements for blue-chip financial institutions. He spent the next 10 years with Dresdner Kleinwort in London as part of the Principal Investments and Structured Finance teams, focusing on the Bank’s portfolio of principal equity assets and principal tax-based transactions. Murat brings a wealth of experience in executing corporate finance transactions. Mr. Özvardar is an economist by training and holds a BA in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College and an MA in economics from Stanford University.