By Andrei Skvarsky.
Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has reported two senior hires for the merchant banking team of Sberbank CIB, its investment arm.
Jonathan Gillbanks joined from Kazakhstan investment group Visor Holding as managing director responsible for structuring and marketing funds for attracting external investment and focusing specifically on technology, media and telecom projects, according to a Sberbank statement.
Anton Gazizov was recruited from VTB Capital to oversee mezzanine financing and private equity deals.
Gillbanks, whose financial services career spans 25 years, worked as a manager at GMT Communications Partners, a British private equity fund, from 2001 to 2010.
Previously he spent more than four years as a mergers and acquisitions banker at Lehman Brothers’ New York and London offices, and from 1995 to 1998 worked as a mergers and acquisitions banker for Latin America at former Swiss banking group SBCWarburg.
He began his career as a senior auditor at the London office of Ernst & Young.
Gazizov was head of private equity and fixed income structuring at VTB Capital, where he worked for three years.
His record includes jobs with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, QVT Financial, which is a US-based hedge fund with more than $4bn under management and operations across the globe, and JNR, a Rothschild family investment advisory business focusing on emerging markets and resources sectors.
Gillbanks and Gazizov will report to Oscar Ratsin, head of merchant banking.
The merchant banking unit was set up in summer 2012 as part of Sberbank’s integration with Troika Dialog, a leading Russian brokerage taken over by Sberbank in a bid to create an investment banking business.
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