Investment Banking and Finance

Renaissance Capital is the pre-eminent provider of M&A and other advisory services on the market and has special expertise in several key industrial sectors, including oil and gas, metals and mining, consumer goods, telecommunications, media and financial institutions. The Investment Banking Group advised on some of the region’s largest deals with multi-billion dollar transactions including Gold Fields’ successful defence against a hostile US$8.1 billion bid by Harmony.

• Other high-profile M&A transactions include:

• Joint bookrunner for US$7,988,00,00 IPO of VTB

• the sale of 75%-1 share in Extra M Media to PromSvyazCapital

• Gazprom’s acquisition of Stimul

• LUKOIL’s acquisition of Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. in the United States

• InBev’s buyout of the interests of SUN, its Russian partner, in leading local brewer SUN-Interbrew

• Banca Intesa’s purchase of a majority share in KMB-Bank

• Russneft’s acquisition of Saratovneftegaz and other assets from TNK-BP

• the auctioning of a 25%+1 shareholding in state-controlled national telecommunications holding Svyazinvest

• the sale of a controlling stake in Uzbek mobile operator Uzdunrobita to Russian telecom MTS

• steelmaker Evraz’s acquisition of the Kachkanar mining operation

The Firm also raises equity capital for a number of domestic companies across industry sectors. Renaissance Capital has been involved in some of the region's largest privatisations and IPOs, including:

• London IPOs for Kalina, Russia's leading consumer goods company

• Rosneft, Russia's largest state-controlled oil company

• Sistema, one of Russia's largest consumer-oriented holding companies

• Comstar, one of Russia's largest telecom companies

• steelmaker Evraz Group

• Western Siberian Resources.

Renaissance Capital has also become the first Russian bank to successfully execute a major LSE IPO on its own – IPO of Cherkizovo Group, a Russian agro-industrial company.

In 2006 Renaissance Capital has already been involved in six transactions raising more than US$2 billion (YTD). Since 1996, Renaissance Capital has completed 14 Russian equity offerings as a bookrunner - more than any other international or domestic bank.

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[above examples are predominantly Russian or London-based – any examples from Renaissance Capital’s newest markets?]

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