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| 2/1/2010 |
| Renaissance Capital strengthens Metals & Mining team with new hires |
Moscow, February 1, 2010 - Renaissance Capital, the leading investment bank in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa, announces that it is significantly strengthening its London-based metals and mining capabilities with the appointment of Roger Murphy as Head of Metals & Mining Sales and Jeremy Wrathall as Head of London Metals & Mining Origination within the investment banking division. The new hires are the Firm’s latest move to further strengthen its market-leading natural resources franchise.
Roger Murphy joins from Canaccord, where he has been Head of Resource and International Sales in the Firm’s London office since 2005. Prior to that, Murphy was with Deutsche Bank for 10 years as a mining analyst, Head of Sales, South African equities and in mining Specialist Sales. He has been rated #1 in Specialist Mining Sales in the Extel Survey. Murphy gained industry experience working as a geologist in coal and gold mines in South Africa and Botswana, as well as a hydrogeologist in the UK. Murphy will join Renaissance Capital as Managing Director in the London office and will lead the Firm’s specialist metals and mining sales force.
Jeremy Wrathall joins from GMP Securities, where since 2007 he was the Senior Partner responsible for originating and coordinating the firm’s corporate finance business in the global mining industry. Previously, Wrathall was Global Head of Mining Equities at Deutsche Bank and Head of Global Mining Sales at UBS Warburg. Early in his career Wrathall worked at Western Areas Gold Mine as an underground miner in South Africa’s first deep-level trackless mining operation. Wrathall will join Renaissance Capital in London in late February as a Managing Director.
Andrew Cornthwaite, Deputy CEO and Head of Investment Banking at Renaissance Capital, said: “In recent years Renaissance Capital has emerged as the leading investment bank focused on natural resources opportunities in emerging markets. The mining sector represents a very significant part of our natural resources business, and the appointment of two senior veterans of the mining sector is a sign of our commitment to the area. It also highlights our capabilities to raise equity and debt and provide advisory services to mining clients across the emerging markets from Latin America to Central Asia, and to provide sales and trading support to our institutional client base. We will be further strengthening the team with appointments in equity research and in trading, as well as further senior hires in the oil and gas sector.”
Murphy and Wrathall join Renaissance Capital’s already robust team of metals and mining specialists, including Head of Metals and Mining Research Rob Edwards, who was rated the number one equity research analyst for the sector by Institutional Investor for EEMEA for the last three years. In addition to Edwards Renaissance Capital’s metals and mining sector team numbers over 20 specialists with team members in New York, London, Johannesburg, Moscow and Almaty.
Renaissance Capital has long been a leader in the Russian and CIS metals and mining sector. In January 2010 the Firm was a bookrunner on Rusal’s $2.24 billion IPO – the largest Russian IPO to date in the metals and mining sector.
About Renaissance Capital (www.rencap.com)
Renaissance Capital is a leading investment banking firm in Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Renaissance Capital has market-leading positions in each of its core businesses - M&A, equity and debt capital markets, securities sales and trading, research, and derivatives. Renaissance Capital is part of the Renaissance Group (www.renaissancegroup.com).
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