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ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO Appoints Corporate Finance Team |
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ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexander Kabanovsky and Siobhan Walker as Co-Heads Corporate Finance and four other members of the Corporate Finance team:
Alexander Kabanovsky was appointed Managing Director, Co-Head Corporate Finance responsible for origination and business development. Prior to joining ING, Alexander was Managing Director for Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions at Alfa Telecom. In this capacity, he facilitated the expansion of Alfa Telecom’s interests into several key Central Asian and Asian markets. Alexander headed telecommunications research for Brunswick UBS from 1997 until 2000, at which time he was appointed Director in the Corporate Finance department in charge of Telecommunications. From 2002 until 2003 he headed Antel Holdings. Alexander holds an BA from Boston College and Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Harvard and Tufts Universities.
Siobhan Walker was appointed Managing Director, Co-Head Corporate Finance responsible for originating advisory/mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions in Russia and CIS. Siobhan has been with ING in Russia for the past eight years and prior to this appointment had the role of CIS Regional Head of Corporate Financial Services. In this capacity, she was responsible for leading the Lending, Payments and Cash Management and Custodial Services of ING Eurasia ZAO with regional responsibility for these products in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Previously she held various managerial positions at ING Head Office in Amsterdam and With ANZ Grindlays Bank in Botswana and London.
Timofei Kotenev was appointed Director of Corporate Finance. Prior to joining ING, Timofei was a Consultant at the leading international law firm Lovells responsible for capital markets and M&A transactions. Timofei worked previously for a US investment fund which was making large-scale investments in Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State University of International Relations, majoring International Law.
Igor Kosov was appointed Director, Corporate Finance. Igor has wide experience in M&A, advisory and finance raising transactions with major Russian and international corporations. In 2004-2005 he was responsible for M&A projects at "Investment Financial Company "Metropol". Prior to that Igor was developing the corporate finance services at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 5 years and was working at KPMG for 3 years. Igor graduated from Calvin College, USA, holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics and translator certificate from University PF, Moscow. He is a certified business appraiser from Plekhanov Academy of Economics, Moscow.
Akop Kagramanyan was appointed Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance. Before joining ING Akop worked as investment officer for consumer goods sector at SUN Capital Partners, a major British-Indian private equity fund. From 2000 to 2002 Akop worked at The Sputnik Group projects in timber and media industries. From 1998-2000 he worked in Arthur Andersen Moscow office as audit expert and was involved in projects in aluminium and telecom sectors. Akop graduated from Moscow State University, majoring International Economics.
Mikhail Kalinin was appointed Analyst, Corporate Finance. Before joining ING Mikhail was involved in a number of acquisitions and divestitures in various sectors of industry for the major Russian financial and industrial groups. From 2002 to 2003 he worked at the department of corporate strategy promotion of RAO “UES of Russia” where he was involved in the restructuring of the Russian electricity sector, developing the legislative base and research of the international experience of the energy sector restructuring. Mikhail graduated from Moscow State University for International Relations, Department of International Law, Financial Law Section.
Commenting on these appointments, Hendrik ten Bosch, General Director of ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO said: “ING is very proud to announce the appointment of highly competent and experienced team of investment banking professionals in its Moscow-based Corporate Finance Division. The Moscow team will work in close contact with its London colleagues, thus bringing local expertise to international experience. We intend to further strengthen our leading positions in the IPO and M&A sectors and will focus on aggressively developing all of our business interests in Russia by providing top quality products and services to our clients”.
Press enquiries: ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO, Maria Teplukhina, tel: +7 095 755 51 70
ING Group is a global financial services company of Dutch origin with 150 years of experience, providing a wide array of banking, insurance and asset management services in over 50 countries. Based on market capitalization ING is one of the 20 largest financial institutions worldwide with assets totaling EUR 865 bln. ING Bank N.V. is represented in Russia by wholly owned subsidiary ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO providing a full range of financial services with focus on Debt Capital Markets, Cash Management, Custody, FX and Money Markets and Treasury products, Structured & General Lending and Investment Banking.
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