At Orca Financial Advisory, we are an investment and financial advisory boutique specializing in real estate and capital markets. We operate at the intersection of capital, transactions, and real assets, supporting investors, developers, and institutions in structuring, funding, and executing high-value opportunities.
About Us
Our core focus is on capital raising and transaction advisory. We advise clients on debt and equity structuring, lead capital raises, and support mergers and acquisitions, ensuring optimal alignment between capital sources and investment strategies.
Leveraging deep market insight and institutional-grade financial modeling, we position opportunities to attract the right investors and deliver risk-adjusted returns.
Strategic Partners
We leverage our localized financial intelligence and institutional expertise to guide transactions directly from our headquarters in New Cairo, structuring mandates that align capital requirements with target investment parameters.
Services
Capital Raising
We advise clients on debt and equity structuring, lead capital raises, and support mergers and acquisitions, ensuring optimal alignment between capital sources and investment strategies.
Real Estate Focus
Leveraging deep market insight and institutional-grade financial modeling, we position opportunities to attract the right investors and deliver risk-adjusted returns.
REIT Advisory
Our services extend to REIT advisory, including structuring, asset selection, and portfolio optimization, enabling clients to institutionalize and scale their real estate platforms.
Clients
Leadership
ORCA is led by a senior investment and advisory team combining institutional finance, real estate execution, sovereign-level structuring, and regional transaction expertise.
Shady Gabr
Chief Investment Officer – Al Salem Holding Managing Director – ORCA Financial Advisory
Shady Gabr is a private markets executive with over 22 years of experience leading complex debt and equity transactions, capital raises, and M&A engagements across the MENA region.
Prior to ORCA, he managed critical infrastructure investment portfolios valued up to USD 800 million within the GCC.
Ihab Barakat
Board Director
Ihab ElZahaby brings over 25 years of institutional experience across real estate asset management, asset optimization, and large-scale cross-border development structures.
- Real estate asset optimization
- Debt and equity structuring
- Cross-border investments
Mohamed Ahmed
Board Director
Mohamed Fahim brings over two decades of financial engineering depth across sovereign finance issuances, public-private partnerships (PPP), and pre-IPO corporate advisory
- USD 5.5B sovereign debt execution
- USD 3.5B PPP portfolio oversight
- Renewable energy structuring