Aquila Capital Group

Russian

Partners

We make great efforts to attract the best M&A professionals and to develop an efficient motivation system to maximize value for out clients.

ACG’s partners and key employees have an extensive experience of joint work on various transactions. Over the last five years, our employees have been engaged in more than 50 transactions of various type (sale and purchase of companies, mergers, restructuring, private placements) and complexity level in the area of M&A and corporate finance with the aggregate value of over US$30 billion.

Partners

  • Sergey Velichko
    Sergey Velichko
    Managing Partner

    Mr. Velichko is responsible for project management and transaction structuring. In 2000-2005, he worked as Vice President and Director at Alfa-Bank Corporate Finance. Mr. Velichko has completed a big number of deals in various industries, including, inter alia, the TNK-BP alliance, private placement of 7.7% stake of TH Perekrestok, acquisition of Katav-Ivanovsky Cement Plant, acquisition of 26% stake in Varyeganneftegaz, private placement of Wimm-Bill-Dann, acquisition of Sidanko, acquisition of Balcem. Prior to joining Alfa-Bank, he worked for four years at KPMG’s Corporate Finance in Moscow.

    Mr. Velichko graduated from the Moscow State University.

  • Vadim Egiazarov
    Vadim Egiazarov
    Managing Partner

    Mr. Egiazarov is responsible for business development. Prior to joining ACG, he was a counsel to General Director of KamAZ and participated in the establishment of numerous Russian industrial and financial companies and served as a member of the board of directors of many of them. He has successfully completed many transactions, including, inter alia, the sale of a large stake of Lenenergo to Å.On. Mr. Egiazarov is a member of the Board of Directors of Baltinvestbank.

    Mr. Egiazarov graduated from the University of Economics and Finance (St. Petersburg).

  • Maxim Kravchenko
    Maxim Kravchenko
    Managing Partner

    Mr. Kravchenko is responsible for project management and transaction structuring. In 1998 to 2005, he worked as Vice President and Director at Alfa-Bank Corporate Finance. Mr. Kravchenko has completed a big number of deals, including, inter alia, the sale of Kazakh mobile operator KaR-Tel, sale of 100% stake in Tomsk Cellular Company, merger of VympelCom and Vympelcom-Regions, acquisition of 43.5% stake in Ukrainian mobile operator KyivStar, merger of fixed-line operators in Siberia and the Far East. Prior to Alfa-Bank, he worked for four years at KPMG (Moscow) and Atria Advisors.

    Mr. Kravchenko graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.