Gold Magazine March - April 2013, Issue 24 | Page 58

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

the long

road

back t
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growth
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NATURAL GAS WILL P
LAY A KEY ROLE
By John Vickers,
Photo by
Jo Michaelides

Antonis
Vidakis

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ntonis Vidakis, who leads
the Transaction Advisory
Services (TAS) team at
Ernst & Young in Cypru,
has more than 12 years of
experience around corporate finance with Ernst &
Young and other ‘Big Four’ Audit firms (PWC,
KPMG Athens/London) on a wide range of
projects related to valuations, fairness opinions,
business plans, restructuring and transaction
support. He recently spoke to Gold on a variety
of issues, ranging from his firm’s TAS services to
the boost that the new energy sector will eventually give to the professional services sector and
the broader Cyprus economy.
Gold: What exactly are the relatively new
Transaction Advisory Services that Ernst &
Young is offering?
Antonis Vidakis: Our Transaction Advisory
Services (TAS) team works with organisations to
help them take better and more informed decisions about how they strategically manage capital
transactions in a changing economic environment. We work with our clients to help
them understand the issues, challenges and
opportunities around their Capital Agenda
in the key four areas of preserving, optimising, raising and investing capital. We
offer a unique range of services around
valuations and business modelling,
operational and financial restructuring,
transaction support, transaction tax,
NOMAD Services, M&A advisory and
project finance.
Gold: Are there specific areas you can
point to as being those where Ernst
& Young and its TAS stands out from
its main competitors?
A.V.: I think our competitive advantage
lies in the fact that we have an integrated

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