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FINANCE MONTHLY M&A AWARDS 2020 37 &Recoveries Unit, providingwork-out support onmajor corporate cases in the assessment and development of debt restructuring options (7 months in 2014). Constantinos leads the Advisory Services Department of VGDA since 2017. FIRM PROFILE VGDA is an independent professional firm providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. Our experienced, qualified and trustworthy people have as their objective the provision of the highest level of personal services in order to accommodate our clients’ needs and requirements. Through the experiences gained over the years of practice, our multi-disciplined professionals are devoted in providing advisory services customized to our clients’ nature of business operations. Our mission is to focus attentively on the specific needs of each individual client, and to add value to them through the continuous business support and advice on their day to day operations. Our aim is to provide to our clientele consultations and advice on a timely manner, in order to facilitate and enhance our clients’ smooth and successful operations. Our basic principle with which we abide is to treat all client matters with the strictest confidentiality. Our personnel represents our most important and valuable asset and in this respect we place particular precision in recruiting and training our staff to ensure that the services rendered to our clients are constantly of the highest level. Our firm comprises of highly qualified and experienced individuals, who are capable of addressing our client’s requests in a timely and efficient manner. Advisory Our firm’s objective is to help our clients adapt to the current market environment, develop and become more successful, by assisting them in taking milestone decisions and supporting the implementation of their growth or turnaround plans. Such decisions pertain to, inter alia, the following: • Developing a growth strategy, incl. identification of investment opportunities and assessment of acquisitions; • Synergies delivery and determination of integration approach. ABOUT CONSTANTINOS CHRISTODOULOU Constantinos started his career in 2003 in the Audit & Assurance Department of a Big-4 International Audit firm, where he qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in 2006. In 2007 he moved to the Transaction & Restructurings Department where he assumed the role of Senior Manager up until 2014. During his tenure, Constantinos managed and executed a large number of financial advisory engagements to client organisations across all industry sectors (service offerings pertaining to Transactions, Capital Markets, Restructurings, Forensic and Corporate Finance), including some high profile and unique projects. During his career he has undertaken various challenging roles/assignments, including: Manager of the Republic of Cyprus’ Privatisations Unit, responsible for the development, management and implementation of transaction processes concerning prominent state owned entities/assets (2015 – 2017); a full-time secondment to Bank of Cyprus’ Restructuring