2007 - Fund Raising
Raiffeisen Investment completed a successful fund raising for a Class A mixed-use office building in Kiev by attracting a prominent local partner to the project. In addition, Raiffeisen Investment provided a property valuation, transaction support, cash management and arranged debt financing. The transaction value was USD 200 m.
2007 - Financial Advisor to Providence Equity
Raiffeisen Investment, together with Lazard, acted as financial advisor to Providence Equity on the acquisition of a stake in Volia, the number one cable TV and Broadband Internet provider in Ukraine. Transaction size was over USD 200m, the largest Western private equity investment in Ukraine.
2007 - Buy- side Advisor to Metinvest Holding
Raiffeisen Investment advised Metinvest Holding on the acquisition of Trametal in Italy and Spartan in the UK. The signing was on the 12 November 2007.
2007 – Merchant Banking
On December 14, 2006 Raiffeisen Investment signed a deal with EBRD to sell a 12% stake in Slobozhanska Budivelna Keramika (SBK), the leading façade ceramic brick manufacturer in Ukraine. The deal was successfully closed in April 2007.
2005 – Buy-side Advisor to Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG
In 2005, Raiffeisen Investment advised Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG on the acquisition of 93.5% of the shares in Joint Stock Post Pension Bank Aval, the leading Ukrainian retail bank and second largest bank of the country.
2004 – Merchant Banking
On March 1, 2004, Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) completed the sale of its 100% stake in Slobozhanska Budivelna Keramika (SBK), the leading façade ceramic brick manufacturer in Ukraine, to Raiffeisen Investment along with MARA Beteiligungsverwaltungs GmbH.
2004 – Buy-side Advisor to Soufflet Group
On the 28 September 2004 in Paris BBH (Baltic Beverages Holding AB) and the Soufflet Group signed the share transfer documentation for the acquisition of the 90,94 % shares in the OJSC "Slavutsky Solodovnyj Zavod" ( Slavuta Malt House) the Ukraine's largest malt house to complete the transaction. The transaction included investment commitments to modernize production and expand the plant's capacity from 70,000 to 150,000 tonnes of malt per year. Raiffeisen Investment acted as the financial adviser and local broker to the Soufflet Group.
2004 – Sell-side Advisor to Soufflet Group
In October 2004 EBRD acquired from Soufflet Group a 24 % stake in Ukraine's largest malt house, OJSC Slavutskiy Solodoviy Zavod, and extended a loan to finance a near doubling of the plant's capacity to 150,000 tones of malt per year. The combined financing is worth $11.8 million. Raiffeisen Investment Ukraine acted as the financial adviser and local broker to the Soufflet Group in this transaction.