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By Andrei Skvarsky
VTB Capital has acquired Capital Plaza, an office block where the investment bank had its headquarters before moving less than a year ago to Moscow City, the emerging Presnensky business district three kilometres west of the Kremlin.
Capital Plaza, a 14-storey business centre with floor space of 50,000 square [...]
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By Marcus Williams
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development will commit up to $50 million to a new private equity fund-of-funds which will mainly focus on investing in existing equity funds covering Russia, the CIS and Turkey.
The fund, Alpha Russia & CIS Secondary L.P., aims to raise up to $300 [...]
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By Chris Weafer, Chief Strategist at UralSib Capital
Waiting for clarity. Fund investors appear to have taken a sanguine view of global market volatility over the past week. They have remained largely on the sidelines while waiting for a clearer picture to emerge. According to the data supplied by EPFR Global, in [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Hawk Sunshine, the head of investment banking at Metropol, is to step aside from his current role following the brokerage’s recent recruitment of Dan Rapoport.
It is understood Sunshine, a 13-year veteran of Russia, will work with fellow Texan Rapoport before transitioning to a new role within the bank.
“Hawk [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Troika Dialog has been awarded the gong of best investment bank in Russia in the recent Global Finance awards.
In a statement, Troika said it currently leads Russian debt capital market league tables in terms of volume, number of issues and market share.
Last we checked, VTB Capital may have had [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Luis Vaz Pinto, the former head of equity syndicate and corporate broking at Troika Dialog, has resurfaced at French bank Societe Generale.
Vaz Pinto is understood to be joining the French bank’s London team to work in a senior equity syndicate role. He joined Troika from JP Morgan in July [...]
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the international law firm, has hired Ilya M. Rybalkin as a partner in its international corporate transactions practice in Moscow.
Rybalkin, who joins in July from Hogan Lovells, advises Russian companies on structuring their international operations and international companies on their Russian investments and [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has confirmed to EmergingMarkets.me it has hired Jose Buera as a London-based director in its special situations group.
Buera’s Rencap job involves managing special situation deals in Africa, the CIS and Russia, and exploring opportunities in other emerging markets, particularly Latin America. The group [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Russia’s VTB Group will form a partnership with Ukreximbank, one of Ukraine’s largest banks, under an agreement to be signed by the two countries’ presidents early this week, the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper said.
Set up in 1992, Ukreximbank is a fully state-owned trade bank offering a wide range of services, [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Crossbridge Capital, an investment advisory firm for entrepreneurs and families, has hired Innokenty Alekseev as director in charge of its Russia and CIS team.
Alekseev joins from a London-based multi-family office, where he had been director, head of advisory and client Relations. He previously managed the Russia and [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Russia-focused funds ended a 12-week long streak of positive inflows as investors became more cautious on emerging markets due to investor concern over the European debt crisis.
Russia saw outflows of $203 million in the week to May 12, according to data from fund trackers Emerging Portfolio Market Research.
The outflow [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Riccardo Orcel, co-head of investment banking for Central Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is a leading candidate to replace Bernie Sucher as Russia country head.
Riccardo is the lesser known sibling of Andrea Orcel, the group’s head of emerging markets [...]
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