Dinos Milios is a Partner at Shipping Finance Solutions, a regional advisory firm specializing in all aspects of financing for the shipping sector. He is an accomplished finance professional with 24 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance and banking. His previous roles included Financial Advisory Services (KPMG), Project Finance (Societe Generale group), Investment Banking / Corporate Finance (Marfin/Laiki group), and Corporate Credit / Shipping Finance (Eurobank).
He started his career as M&A advisor to private and public entities within a broad range of industry sectors. He then moved on to project finance and investment banking, and was responsible for mergers, acquisitions and management buyouts, public infrastructure projects, private energy and construction projects, as well as capital market transactions involving debt, equity and hybrid instruments. He then pursued a 15-year career in the banking sector, originally in large corporate credit, and afterwards heading Eurobank’s shipping finance department, overseeing its successful development and growth from inception to a nationwide leader. In his current role at SFS, he is mainly involved in advising shipowners, funds and family offices on capital structure matters, and sourcing debt capital from a range of financiers internationally (banks, leasing houses, credit funds) as well as from equity investors. He is also advising financial institutions on setting up and running ship lending operations, and also deals with other specialized projects within the shipping space and beyond.
Throughout his career, Dinos has been responsible for debt and equity transactions exceeding Euro 2 billion in aggregate. His past industry expertise, in addition to shipping, includes energy, hotels and leisure, food & beverage, wholesale trade, telecoms, real estate and education.
Dinos holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from King’s College London, and a MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from Bayes Business School.