Akinn Group is a boutique investment bank providing corporate finance advisory services, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and with offices in London, UK.
The Akinn platform’s primary focus areas include illiquid ‘real assets’ and holistic solutions for optimising the balance sheets of financial institutions, trade and supply chain solutions, and our wealth management initiative and partnership with one of the largest US multifamily endowments.
The Akinn Group franchise has undertaken some of the highest profile bank recapitalisation and balance sheet optimisation transactions across the EU in the past 10 years such as the recapitalisation of Attica Bank, across shipping, real estate, infra and energy, including the sale of the shipping portfolio owned by the State of Schleswig Holstein and City of Hamburg, and the sale of non-core equity participations from Piraeus Bank of Greece.
Our Value
Bespoke and discrete approach
Excellent connectivity across deep-pocketed financial sponsors
Unique expertise and experience in providing balance sheet solutions enable us to find and structure the right arrangement for all involved parties
About us
By using groups of specialists, we create bespoke teams and tailored answers for each transaction. And we connect our clients to investors that fit, hand picked from our network diligently established over many years in the business. Over the last decade our approach has successfully delivered some of the highest profile transactions in Europe. Here’s how we do things:
Bespoke innovators
We use all our experience to rethink how things can be better on a daily basis. Making sure structures are ingenious, not generic, and introductions are tailored, not a blanket assault.
Independent conviction
We’re neutrals who use our experience, our insights and our frameworks to give a clear opinion on each transaction’s merits.
Curated connections
We use our buy-side experience and global network to create products that are right for investors and find investors that fit the products.
Mobile and modular
By having modular teams with their own areas of expertise, we’re able to assemble the right structure of specialisms for each client.
Accessible excellence
We put specialists on the front-line to work smarter and more effectively.
Our experience
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European banking
We are a leading practice across the financial sector and uninterrupted for over a decade, including coverage of European D-SIB banks across capital and balance sheet optimisation, with buy-side and sell-side expertise spanning more than 15 years and significant market penetration across the DACH and Southern Europe regions
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Shipping sector
Over €5bn of aggregate exposure has been successfully transacted in shipping and shipping-related loans across 4 high profile deals, positioning us as the #1 leading franchise within the shipping and maritime sector
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Real estate
Transactions executed on both the fund M&A and asset-side, including the sale of a leading Real Estate and Infrastructure asset manager with assets under management in excess of €3.3bn, and portfolio transactions involving Real Estate and Hospitality assets
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Bank capital
Undertook one of the most complex recapitalisations performed in the EU space to date, with a capital raise of €2.8bn for a D-SIB bank in Germany; as well as one of the largest post-crisis capital relief trades including €11.4bn of assets
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Investor relationships
Deep rooted connectivity across C-suite from large institutional investors across the Americas and Asia, with specific focus on low cost of capital pension funds, insurance companies and endowments
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