Dci Advisors Regulatory News (DCI)

30 Dec 2005 07:00

Dolphin Capital Investors Limited30 December 2005 For release 07.00am 30 December 2005 Dolphin Capital Investors Limited ("DCI" or the "Company") Year End Trading Update Since the Company's admission to trading on AIM on 8 December 2005 and the successful raising of €104 million before expenses, Dolphin Capital Partners, the Company's Investment Manager, has continued the process of finalising, on behalf of DCI, the contractual arrangements in 6 investment opportunities in Greece and Cyprus with related capital commitments in excess of €66 million. DCI currently anticipates entering into final and binding agreements in certain of these projects early in the new year. Benefiting from the momentum of the listing and the strong capitalisation of the Company, Dolphin Capital Partners is advancing a number of previous and new pipeline opportunities that are expected to also materialise in the new year. For further information: Dolphin Capital Investors Limited Tel: +30 210 3614 255Miltos Kambouridesmiltos@dolphincp.com Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100(Nominated Adviser)Philip Secrett Panmure Gordon Tel: +44 (0) 20 7459 3600(Broker)Richard Gray / Dominic Morley / Andrew Potts Binns & Co PR Tel: +44 (0) 20 7786 9600(Financial PR)Peter Binns / Tarquin Edwards / Annie Evangeli Notes to Editors Dolphin Capital Partners ("DCP")DCP is an independent investment management business founded in 2004 by MiltosKambourides and Pierre Charalambides after leaving Soros Real Estate Partners. DCP specialises in providing capital to rigorously selected real estatedevelopments in Southeast Europe and matching local developers with DCP'sinternational network of sophisticated operators, designers, master-planners,marketing agents and financial institutions. The partners combine extensive local knowledge and contacts with aninternational network following expertise gained at some of the world's leadingfinancial institutions including Soros Real Estate Partners, Goldman Sachs,JPMorgan, GE Capital and Citibank. DCP contributed to DCI an attractive prospective investment portfolio and astrong pipeline of potential projects sourced over the past two years. The Company is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and has local officesin Greece and Cyprus. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange