ZDENĚK RAUS

Partner and CFO of Demaco group since November 2021, responsible for all finance, taxes and accounting related matters.

Zdeněk has been involved in financial lead of development and management especially of commercial real estate for more than 20 years already. In his career he has executed financing of several billion EUR for new developments as well as existing industrial and office properties both in the Czech Republic and other CEE countries.

In 2003 he joined KPMG where he audited commercial and industrial companies and many of his clients were commercial real estate companies. In 2010 he left for CTP where he held senior management positions in financial management for 11 years focusing mainly on financing, liquidity management, acquisitions and investments both in the Czech Republic and in other CEE countries.

The most significant project that he managed and successfully completed in 2019 was the refinancing of the entire CTP industrial portfolio in the Czech Republic in the amount of EUR 1.9 billion which was one of the largest real estate bank financing in Europe of all times. Zdeněk also actively participated in the entry of CTP into the capital markets both in the form of bond issue in 2020 and in the form of share issue (IPO) in 2021.

Selected projects that Zdeněk worked on include:

  • Refinancing of the entire CTP industrial portfolio in the Czech Republic with a consortium of European and non-European banks and insurance companies in the amount of EUR 1.9 billion in 2019
  • Refinancing of part of CTP’s industrial portfolio in the Czech Republic with a consortium of German banks and insurance companies in the amount of EUR 0.4 billion in 2020
  • Refinancing of part of CTP’s industrial portfolio in the Czech Republic with a consortium of CEE banks in the amount of EUR 1.0 billion in 2021
  • Refinancing of the CTP Group’s portfolio through several tranches of issued bonds totaling more than EUR 3.5 billion in 2020 and 2021
  • CTP Group’s listing on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in the form of an initial public offering (IPO) in 2021 – the total value of the transaction exceeded EUR 5 billion
  • Financing of acquisitions and development of CTP’s industrial portfolio in Romania and Slovakia with local banks totaling more than EUR 0.2 billion