Nicholas Matulovich

Nicholas’ Biography

Nicholas Matulovich is a chartered accountant and an experienced finance and M&A professional with a focus on the commercial real estate and hedge fund industries.

As Chief Financial Officer of Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd, Nick executed the merger with New Europe Property Investments PLC (NEPI) in July 2017 to form NEPI Rockcastle PLC, which is the largest real estate company in Central and Eastern Europe with a portfolio of dominant retail centres exceeding €5bn in value.

Nick was a member of the team that founded Rockcastle in 2011 and was directly responsible for the development of a finance function across 7 countries and together with the company’s CEO, led all M&A functions of the business. In addition, he served as the COO of the hedge fund side of the business (with gross assets exceeding €2bn). Following the merger, Nick became an Executive Director and focused on the company’s funding profile (leading secured debt negotiations, capital markets transactions and equity roadshows) as well as leading the M&A and tax functions.

At the time when Rockcastle... Nicholas Matulovich is a chartered accountant and an experienced finance and M&A professional with a focus on the commercial real estate and hedge fund industries.

As Chief Financial Officer of Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd, Nick executed the merger with New Europe Property Investments PLC (NEPI) in July 2017 to form NEPI Rockcastle PLC, which is the largest real estate company in Central and Eastern Europe with a portfolio of dominant retail centres exceeding €5bn in value.

Nick was a member of the team that founded Rockcastle in 2011 and was directly responsible for the development of a finance function across 7 countries and together with the company’s CEO, led all M&A functions of the business. In addition, he served as the COO of the hedge fund side of the business (with gross assets exceeding €2bn). Following the merger, Nick became an Executive Director and focused on the company’s funding profile (leading secured debt negotiations, capital markets transactions and equity roadshows) as well as leading the M&A and tax functions.

At the time when Rockcastle was founded, Nick was the Group Finance Manager for a leading South African property company where he was involved in new initiatives across Africa and Europe, as well as overseeing the company’s tax structuring.

During his years at Ernst & Young, Nick spent time in both the Transaction Tax division, which was the most successful M&A advisory businesses in Africa, and the Assurance division with clients in the financial services and private equity sectors.

A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Nick has lectured undergraduate and postgraduate students in Taxation and Auditing at the same university. Nick has an MCom (Taxation) and is a CA(SA) and is now based in London. more less

Nicholas’ Background

Credence Capital UK Ltd

Partner

Apr 2019 - Present

Consulting to the real estate industry on topics of treasury management, listed security operational platform implementation, M&A and tax strategy. Current clients include large listed REITs and Private Equity clients. Leading the launch of 3 new real estate private equity funds.

NEPI Rockcastle PLC

Executive Director

Jul 2017 - Mar 2019

London, UK

NEPI Rockcastle owns, manages & develops dominant retail properties in the following Central & Eastern European countries: Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic & Serbia. NEPI Rockcastle is the result of the merger between New Europe Property Investments PLC (NEPI) and Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd in July 2017.

Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd

Chief Financial Officer

May 2014 - Jul 2017

London, UK

Nick was responsible for the company's financial function, transaction & company structuring and he managed the international & corporate tax function. Rockcastle internally managed and invested in dominant retail centres in Central Europe and operated a hedge fund with both opportunistic and strategic holdings in the real estate space. Nick also served as COO of the hedge fund during this time.

Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd

Financial Director & Founding Member

Nov 2011 - May 2014

Johannesburg, ZA

Nick was part of the team that founded Rockcastle while working for a South African property fund. Nick's projects included: development of a finance function across 7 countries with over 40 staff; all deal negotiation and due diligence for acquisitions of >EUR2bn; tax optimisation projects across 10 jurisdictions; serving as COO of the hedge fund business; arranging all equity and debt.

Ernst & Young

Supervisor

2009 - 2011

Johannesburg, ZA

Nick was responsible for supervising financial services audits. He also worked on due diligence,structuring & deal related assignments in the Transaction Tax division focusing on M&A transactions.

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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Lecturer (then Visting Lecturer)

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

Johannesburg, ZA

Nick presented lectures and evaluated students, covering a variety of topics on Taxation and Auditing to classes of around 400 third year undergraduates and more than 250 postgraduate students. Nick was also responsible for setting & marking examinations for the aforementioned courses.