Igor Samsonov

Baring Vostok Capital Partners

Baring Vostok is one of the leading private equity firms operating in Russia and the CIS. The Baring Vostok Private Equity Funds have invested over $1.8 billion USD in more than 60 companies since 1994, and currently have committed capital of $3.6 billion USD for new investments. The Funds' portfolios were diversified among financial services, oil and gas, consumer products, telecommunications, and media sectors, including СТС Media, Golden Telecom, Yandex, Ozon, Gallery Group, Centre of Financial Technologies, Enforta, ER-Telecom, 1C, Burren Energy, Volga Gas, Zhaikmunai, Novomet, Kaspi Bank, Orient Express Bank, Europlan, EMC and others. The Investment Advisor of the Funds, Baring Vostok Capital Partners (Guernsey) has been voted "Russian Private Equity Firm of the Year" by the readers of Private Equity International and Private Equity Online every year since 2005. The sub-advisor of BVCP has a branch office in Moscow with a team of 30 experienced investment professionals. Baring Vostok is a member of Baring Private Equity International, a global private equity group with more than $10 billion USD of capital under management by affiliates in CIS, Asia, India, Europe and Latin America.