Our business
Renaissance Capital delivers innovative financial and investment solutions to government, corporate and institutional clients in high-opportunity emerging markets around the world. Our unique strength is in combining hard-won and detailed local market expertise with very highest standards of operational and regulatory efficiency and integrity – applying international banking standards and practices to the world’s financial frontiers.
The company is based on three pillars of investment banking expertise:
- Institutional Securities Group – comprising Debt Product Group (DPG) and Equity product Group (EPG)
- Investment Banking and Finance Group – raising capital for clients
- Research – world-class, top rated research teams supporting our businesses and giving clients the knowledge they need
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:
- 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 raises equity and debt 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:
VTB's US$7,988,000,000 IPO
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
Evraz Group – a steelmaker
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 was involved in six transactions raising a total of more than US$2 billion. Since 1996, Renaissance Capital has completed 14 Russian equity offerings as a bookrunner – more than any other international or domestic bank.
Beyond our Moscow headquarters, Renaissance Capital also has offices in Western Europe, the Americas, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Our subsidiaries include:
Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited is located in the Republic of Cyprus and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission to increase the company's transparency and give it greater access to the European Union.
Renaissance Capital Limited is the first CIS-focused UK investment firm to be authorised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of the United Kingdom as a 'Category A' firm and to become a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
RenCap Securities, Inc. is a US-based subsidiary of Renaissance Capital Holdings Limited. RenCap Securities, Inc. is authorised by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) to carry out broker-dealer activities in the US and is a member of the NASD and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).
Renaissance Capital Ukraine LLC was established in 2004 and has already secured the No. 1 position in terms of volume and number of deals on Ukraine's stock market, the First Stock Trading System (PFTS).
