Taiga Capital is an independent investment banking firm. We focus on providing our Clients with top-quality unbiased advice with respect to mergers & acquisitions, capital raising transactions and other corporate finance issues. Our partners and employees bring together more than 30 years of joint international professional experience in investment banking and strategy consulting to deliver best-in- class solutions to our Clients.
Taiga Capital was founded by Vyacheslav Smerkis (ex – Salomon Smith Barney) in Summer 2003. Currently Taiga Capital employs 10 people. Taiga Capital has worked with more than 150 international and local companies.
So far Taiga Capital acted as an advisor on 35 completed M&A, private equity raising and debt raising and restructuring transactions.
Clients
Taiga Capital is focusing on advising the following types of clients:
What we do
Taiga Capital is focusing on investment banking services of the following nature:
Recent transactions
SELLER: Shareholders ACQUIRER: OOO Saburovskiy Kombinat Khleboproduktov TARGET: OOO Campoferma
Sale of 100% equity interest in Campoferma (one of the largest pig producers) to Saburovskiy Kombinat Khleboproduktov.
Taiga Capital advised the selling shareholders.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: Shareholders ACQUIRER: Far East Antimony Ltd. (UK) TARGET: Solonechenskoye Antimony Deposit
Acquisition of 100 % equity interest in OOO “GRK Solonechensckoe” (Solonechenskoe Antimony Deposit).
Taiga Capital advised the selling shareholders.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton ACQUIRER: Platforma TARGET: Kombinat MosInzhBeton real-estate assets
Sale of ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton selected real estate assets in the liquidation process to Platforma.
Taiga Capital advised unsecured creditors of ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton.
Amount undisclosed.
ACQUIRER: NYK Line (JAPAN) TARGET: Rolf SCS (rebranded into LLC NYK Auto Logistics, Oct 2020) SELLER: Rolf Group
Acquisition of 49 % equity interest in Rolf SCS by NYK Line.
Taiga Capital advised NYK Line.
Amount undisclosed.
ISSUER/SELLER: ОOO Carlink and its shareholders ACQUIRER: Mitsubishi Corporation (Japan) and G.LION Group (Japan) TARGET: Majority equity interest in OOO Carlink
Acquisition of a majority equity interest in OOO Carlink via the purchase of existing shares and participation in the capital increase.
Taiga Capital advised OOO Carlink and its shareholders.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton ACQUIRER: OOO Hunt-Holding TARGET: Kombinat MosInzhBeton real-estate assets
Sale of ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton selected real estate assets in the liquidation process to OOO Hunt-Holding.
Taiga Capital advised unsecured creditors of ОАО Kombinat MosInzhBeton.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: Elbrus Capital ACQUIRER: OOO New Media Holding TARGET: OOO Holding Vyberi Radio
Sale of 28.4% equity interest in Holding Vyberi Radio to New Media Holding.
Taiga Capital advised Elbrus Capital.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: LIVIA Group, German family-owned investment group (GERMANY) (TAIGA CAPITAL CLIENT) ACQUIRER: LLC «Technokeramika» JSC «Podolsk Refractories»
Sale of 100% equity interest in JSC «Podolsk Refractories», the only producer of meaningful size of fused cast refractory products primarily for CIS glass manufacturers (with manufacturing facility located in Shcherbinka), to LLC Technokeramika.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: FOUNDER AND SHAREHOLDER OF OOO “GREINER PACKAGING SYSTEM” (TAIGA CAPITAL CLIENT) ACQUIRER: GREINER PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL (AUSTRIA) TARGET: OOO “GREINER PACKAGING SYSTEM” (formerly OOO “PLASTIC SYSTEM”)
Sale of 30% equity interest in OOO “Greiner Packaging System” operating in the sector of manufacturing of plastic packaging materials (with manufacturing facility located in Noginsk) to Greiner Packaging International.
Amount undisclosed.
SELLER: FOUNDERS AND VENTURE CAPITAL FUND “DIGITAL VENTURES” (TAIGA CAPITAL CLIENT) ACQUIRER: QIWI PLC TARGET: FLOCKTORY LTD.
Sale of 80% equity interest in Flocktory ltd., the leading online marketing automation SaaS platform, to Qiwi PLC, one of the top providers of next generation payment services in the CIS.
Transaction size: RUB 832.8 mln.
SELLER: FOUNDER AND OTHER SHAREHOLDER OF OOO “PLASTIC SYSTEM” (TAIGA CAPITAL CLIENT) ACQUIRER: GREINER PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL (AUSTRIA) TARGET: OOO “PLASTIC SYSTEM”
Sale of 70% equity interest in OOO “Plastic System” operating under the brand name “Souzpromplast” (the leading player in the sector of manufacturing of plastic buckets with manufacturing facility located in Noginsk) to Greiner Packaging.
Amount undisclosed.