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Founded by 15-year industry veteran Umair Saeed, BlackSea’s diverse team of industry-leading professionals fuels the firm’s success.

We thrive on continual collaboration, entrepreneurial spirit, and a commitment to success. Our daily actions demonstrate our complete dedication to driving substantial results for our local businesses, our global partners, and our fellow team members.

BlackSea’s advisory leadership team has over 60 years of collective corporate advisory expertise in the GCC, South Asia, Africa, China & Turkiye. Combined with the firm’s vast local resources and on-the-ground execution, the scale of BlackSea’s capabilities in the region is unparalleled.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT:

Umair Saeed, ACBI, MCSI

CEO & Founder

Haroon Rashid, CFA

Chief Operating Officer

Hilal Aksu

Head of Acquisitions – Turkiye

Zeynep Akbay

Head of Legal Affairs

Advisory Board:

Ali Varol, CMB, CRMA

Vice Chairman

Mustajab Ahmed, CA

Advisory Board Manager

Dr. Hamid Shabeer
Chairman

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Asad Raza
Head of Marketing

Locally Licensed, Globally Recognized

Blacksea leverages its local license and local presence to continuously expand its deep-rooted, long-term relationships with over 300 institutional and non-institutional clients to form highly targeted investment engagements for each project with whom it partners. Currently, Blacksea’s relationships include the region’s largest, over 200 Central Asia, South Asia, North America & GCC-based mid-tier investors, over 50 local family offices and UHNWIs, and numerous corporate entities intending to acquire real estate assets in Turkiye and/or forge international partnerships. With a mission to provide our investors access to institutional-grade real estate investment opportunities in Turkiye, Blacksea provides industry-leading expertise, regulatory compliance, and local coverage to help project developers and investors establish long-term partnership.

Blacksea also serves as advisor for bridging gaps and arranging JV arrangements between Contracting & Engineering firms globally to jointly bid for large-scale infrastructure projects through our subsidiary www.blackseacorp.com . Blacksea also works as brokerage firm for Agri commodities suppliers based in CIS countries, Ukraine & Turkiye to increase their geographic footprint through our another subsidiary www.blackseacommodities.com . We help local companies to expand on a global scale and leverage their products to a larger customer base. In essence, we develop the business for our large-corporate clients internationally and provide them with access to the markets which otherwise have high-barriers of entry.

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About Blacksea

Black Sea Emlak Yatirim ve Ticaret A.Ş. is a multi-disciplinary and most deeply connected corporate advisory & real estate investment firm. Founded in 2020, headquartered in Istanbul, Blacksea has local coverage offices in Lahore, Brimingham & Dubai. Owing to our geographic location and local network, we specialize in real estate investments in Turkiye and provide Turkish citizenship as complementary service. Over the last 4-years we have been delivering min 60% ROI p.a. to our investors through real estate investments. Blacksea prides itself on continually strengthening its deeply-rooted relationships with the South Asia, North America & GCC’s most significant expat and local population, mid-cap institutional investors, and family offices. Blacksea specializes in raising investor interest for Turkish real estate investments from our foreign investors who allocate between $0.200 million to $2.000+ million per commitment.

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