Renaissance Capital is a leading investment banking firm focused on the emerging markets of Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm also offers its clients access to these markets through financial centers like London and New York.

Renaissance Capital provides a full range of investment banking products and services, including equity and debt sales and trading, corporate advisory, capital raising, research and structured solutions. The firm’s clients are corporations, governments, institutional investors and individuals. Renaissance Capital’s unique strength is in combining hard-won and detailed local market knowledge with the very highest standards of operational and regulatory efficiency and integrity – applying international banking practices to the world’s financial frontiers.

Renaissance Capital won the 2009 FT/mergermarket award for Financial Advisor of the Year in Russia. The Firm tops the M&A league tables in Russia and the CIS for 1998-2009 by number of deals (source: mergermarket). The Firm consistently tops the ECM league tables in Russia and the CIS (Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters). Renaissance Capital's Research team is ranked #1 in Emerging EMEA in Institutional Investor's 2009 survey.

Renaissance Capital was founded in 1995 as a Moscow-based investment bank. It is part of Renaissance Group, a group of investment banking, asset management, merchant banking and consumer finance companies that operates in Russia and other emerging markets.