OREANDA-NEWS. June 18, 2012. Deutsche Bank’s impressive league table standings across the CEE & CIS region in key areas of investment banking, combined with the bank’s work on a number of landmark transactions make the bank a worthy winner of this year’s award.

The high profile transactions contributed to the bank’s success in Russia in 2011 include the USD 3.3bn privatisation of VTB (Russia’s largest equity deal of 2011), the USD 1.4bn IPO of Yandex (which was the largest US technology IPO since Google in 2004), Polymetal’s USD 750m premium London listing (the first post-crisis Russian bank IPO for NOMOS) and a first port sector IPO for Global Ports.

Landmark M&A mandates included advising VimpelCom on its USD 23bn acquisition of WIND, UCL Holding on its USD 4.1bn strategic acquisition of a 75% stake in Freight One JSC, Severstal on a landmark spin-off of NordGold, Sberbank on its USD 1bn acquisition of Troika Dialog.

These awards represent significant achievement for Deutsche Bank Russia investment banking business, demonstrate the high professionalism of the Deutsche team, deep knowledge of financial markets and prove the bank’s ability to execute deals in a challenging market environment.