BEST INVESTMENT BANK FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

摘要

In a country where many blue-chip companies are state-owned, it helps to be the investment banking arm of a state-owned bank, especially if that bank is the country's second largest corporate lender. But even so, by any measure the past year represented a breakthrough for Russia's VTB Capital. Since hiring Yuri Soloviev from Deutsche Bank as founding CEO in April 2008, the bank has recruited about 750 staff, built around experienced hires from the bulge bracket.