NEKTON CAPITAL GROUP
Smart Solutions for the Energy Industry
Premier Global Trading, Investment, Consulting and Advisory Firm
About Us
We are a commodities company focused in the energy industry around the world, providing solutions for financing, debt restructuring, trading and merge & acquisitions, while performing safe and responsibly, leveraging from our business expertise and network.
Upstream, Midstream, Downstream, Trading
Energy Project Financing:
Crude Oil Refineries
Mergers & Acquisitions
Finance: Project & Corporate Financing, Valuations & Fairness Opinions, Debt Restructuring
The Nekton Way
UNIQUE INSIGHTS
We focus on the business segment at the heart of the global economy. From established energy industry leaders to younger entrepreneurial organizations, our clients will count on us for successful M&A, energy transactions, trading, project finance, expert debt advisory services, accurate valuations and exceptional performance. With superb execution backed by the perspective that can only come from deep energy industry relationships and a tightly integrated global team, we help our clients achieve superior results and strive to outperform their highest expectations.
TRUE PERSPECTIVE
We provide to our clients and partners, superb execution and the unobstructed perspective they need to succeed in an increasingly interconnected, globalized economy. Our clients benefit from senior-level support and a team of engaged professionals who have extensive experience, deep expertise and a profound understanding of their needs. Always open to new ideas and innovative ways of thinking, our people will stay on top of trends, evaluate opportunities and balance near- and long-term considerations as we seek to help clients achieve their goals throughout the energy industry.
MISSION
We strive to create exceptional value through the best financial thinking, strategy, trading of products and project execution. Setting the highest standards for behaviors that embody our business principles.
VISION
We are committed to help individuals, corporations and governments to achieve their unique goals, as we hold corporate responsibility as a core value, while developing and supporting successful professionals, and helping our communities prosper and being sustainable.
Why Choose Us
Over $7B Global Transactions
Our business is founded on the long-term relationships we’ve built with our customers.
20+ Years of Experience
Our culture originated with our founders and their combination of entrepreneurship, determination to succeed, integrity, hard work and humility
Partnerships and associations with the most efficient financial institutions and Funds
Constantly Evolving
Nekton's Core
Gerard Lopez Fojaca – Chairman
Graduated from Miami University in integrated traffic management systems and in operational management. At age 22, he began managing Icon Solutions, a pioneer society in internet development.
He founded Mangrove Capital Partners, a Luxembourg-based leading venture capital company who became the first investors in Skype before selling its share to Ebay in 2005 for 3.2 billion dollars.
Mr. Lopez sits on the board of Directors of WIX (Wix.com) a company with a market cap of 5.85 Billion dollars).
In 2015, he founded Nekton, an investment company and brokerage in energy field, active in South America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe developing later on to Nekton Capital Group (NCG) a capital investment company focused in the energy market.
Mr. Lopez owns 50% of Rise Capital (Sweden) through Nekton and is currently its chairman, he also owns 40% of ICARE Group (Switzerland) an EPC company also involved in energy, specially crude oil refineries and facilities.
Since 2015 Mr. Lopez has structured, through a strategic alliance with Mr. Francisco Farias, Oilco Group, LTD from Malta, a trading platform of crude oil and crude oil products of over $2 Billion dollars transactions since, in alliance with the largest energy trading companies in the world.
Mr. Lopez bought, in 2009, out the Formula 1 Lotus F1 Team making Genii Capital the majority owner of the team, Microsoft, Unilever and Coca-Cola soon became team partners, Mr. Lopez has already sold the F1 Lotus Team but still sits as Director in the Renault F1 Team.
Since 2007, Mr. Lopez has been the President of the CS Fola Esch, the football club in which he used to play as a teenager.
Mr. Lopez acquire in 2016 the Lille OSC football club, as the majority owner of the French Ligue 1 club and successfully sold it to Merlyn Partners in December 2020, Lille was sold on December 2021 and the Bordeaux Soccer Team of France was acquire in June 2021.
Francisco Farias Semidey - President & CEO
Lawyer, prior to becoming President and CEO of Nekton Capital Group, Mr. Farias introduced over $7 billion of energy and financial deals worth over the past 10 years throughout crude oil transactions for the world’s largest crude oil trading companies and refineries to Nekton Group in association with Gerard Lopez.
Mr. Farias bought Partners Financial Group, for the amount of 1.6 million dollars, a Full-Service Securities Broker Dealer in Florida, USA, managing over 2 billion dollars in assets under management, with 50+ employees and offices throughout Latin-American.
Partners Financial Group became part of First Mutual Planning, when Mr. Farias became the majority shareholder of First Mutual Planning, managing over 2.3 billion dollars and in association with Alliance Fund, Scudder and others international funds and financial institutions, restructuring debt and financing energy projects. Company was sold in 2014 for $3.6 MM.
Mr. Farias introduced an array of oil and gas deals to Deutsch Bank for over 10 years, as well as financial transactions for the enhancement and development of Crude Oil Refineries around the world for over $4 billion.
Shareholder and founder of Oilco Group LTD an energy trading company.
Mr. Farias is also the Founder and principal sponsor of Children's Hope international Fund, a nonprofit foundation to help the starving children of the world.
Offices
Hong Kong
Room 907, Silvercord Tower 2,
30 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Dubai, EUA
38 D Almas Tower
Jumeirah Lakes Tower, Dubai, UAE
+971 4458 2307