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Expected deals
Pipeline of Russian expected deals
Situation Target
company
Expected
Deal
Expected
Deal
Victoria
Group
Sector Financial adviser Seller
company
Consumer TPG Capital, Russia
Partners, Goldman
Sachs, or Prosperity
Capital Management
(T)
Commercial
Bank
Renaissance
Capital
Potential bidder
company
Nikolai Vlasenko,
Alexander
Zaribko, Vladimir
Katsman;
Renaissance Pre-
IPO Fund and
East Capital
Mosmart Consumer Sberbank Mikhail
Bezelyansky and
Andrei Shelukhin
(private investor)
Russia
Market cap/ Comments
est. value
(€m)
773 Victoria Group’s shareholders have hired
investment fund Renaissance Capital
to find a buyer for a stake of up to 50%
in the private Russian retailer, reported
Kommersant. The paper cited various
sources familiar with the situation, for this
news. Renaissance Capital has already sent
proposals about the acquisition of a stake in
Victoria to investment funds, including TPG
Capital, Russia Partners, Goldman Sachs,
and Prosperity Capital Management. This
information was confirmed by Victoria’s
three co-founders, Russian investors Nikolai
Vlasenko, Alexander Zaribko, and Vladimir
Katsman, Kommersant wrote.
565 Mosmart co-founders Mikhail Bezelyansky
and Andrei Shelukhin hope to sell a stake
in the Russian retailer to Sberbank, the
listed, state-controlled Russian bank,
reported Vedomosti. The paper cited
Mosmart general director Semyon Slutsky.
He confirmed that negotiations over a sale
of a stake in Mosmart are being held with
Sberbank-Capital, but no deal documents
had been signed as yet. A source in a
company that is a Mosmart business
partner, cited in Vedomosti, claimed that
the sale will include up to 50% in Mosmart.
Slutsky said that this figure is close to
accurate.
Auction Centrgaz Construction Undisclosed Bidder OAO Gazprom 102 Gazprom, the listed Russian gas monopoly,
is planning to put up for sale its oil and gas
construction company Centrgaz, reported
Vedomosti. The paper cited a Gazprom
spokesperson who said that Centrgaz
would be sold at an open auction. Two
sources close to Gazprom said the company
would sell a 99.9% stake in Centrgaz for at
least RUB 4.5bn (USD 134.7m).
Expected
Deal
Maxwell
Bank
Financial
Services
Artur Perepelkin
(private investor)
5 Russian investor Artur Perepelkin could
acquire the Russia-based Maxwell Bank
(formerly Agrorybprombank), reported
Kommersant. Cited in the paper, Perepelkin
confirmed that he considers a possibility
of acquiring Maxwell Bank and will take a
final decision on the matter within the next
few days. The buy would be conducted
through the London-registered investment
fund Just IT, in which Perepelkin holds
a 20% stake, Kommersant wrote, citing
the businessman. Maxwell Bank has
assets worth RUB 267m (USD 7.95m),
Kommersant reported, quoting Interfax.
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