Sinan Yöney
MBA (University of Virginia),
Civil Engineering (Istanbul Technical University)

Director

 

Uğur Şahin


Director


Sinan Yöney started his professional career as a real estate valuation expert after an internship with an investment bank on corporate finance for one year. He worked on preparing feasibility analyses for and valuing the properties held in portfolios of REITs, publicly listed companies, private holding companies and government agencies such as the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, Savings Deposit Insurance Fund and the Privatization Administration.

During his tenure in the US, he worked on developing the marketing strategies and feasibility analyses of urban renovation and development projects and on preparing the leasing strategy of a shopping mall for projects in Miami and Puerto Rico.

With Dubai Holding he worked as a development manager in charge of international projects. He oversaw the Dubai Towers Jeddah Project during the preparation of feasibility studies, signing of the partnership agreement, purchase of land plots, managing the architectural design, conducting the market and target group research, finalizing the concept design, obtaining project approval from the Municipality of Jeddah, handling the project financing negotiations, conducting the ground studies and foundation design and negotiation of the hotel management agreement with Ritz Carlton.

Furthermore, his team was responsible for preparing for the USD 700 million IETT bus terminal auction in Istanbul, winning the auction , conducting the market research, feasibility studies and concept design works, partnership deal talks with domestic groups and signing the protocol for a USD 500 million bank loan for the project company.
Sinan was involved in the negotiations to acquire a masterplan development project in Bodrum. He handled the signing of the MoU, market research, technical, tax related and financial due diligence processes and negotiations for the final contracts. Additionally, he directed talks with investors and operators for funding the project and finalized initial agreement with a domestic investor and obtained an LOI from an international premium resort operator.

He took part in the feasibility study, market research, design management, operator selection, and partnership negotiations of various projects of Dubai Holding, in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Tunisia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.

Sinan Yöney has also worked as an executive director, with responsibilities for fundraising and underwriting potential opportunities, in a real estate investment fund established by investors from the US, UAE and KSA.
 
In the past twenty years, Ugur worked as a managing partner being responsible on brokerage and land and project development activities in corporate companies of the industry, Colliers, Pega & Jones Lang LaSalle.

He is expert on managing the every process of buying land and negotiations with the landowners, local developers and local authorities.

Uğur Şahin has completed transactions in total of 5,000,000 m². He had a variety of multinational and national client portfolio such as Enron Power, USA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gillette, Deutsche Bank, Sama Dubai, Redevco, TRW, Şişecam.