Companies@UA: База компаний Украины

Kyiv, January 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyiv-based Concorde Capital Investment Bank is the leader in the financial consultant ratings in terms of M&A deals in the CIS financial sector, the bank's press service reported on Monday.

According to the report, in 2007 Concorde Capital conducted five M&A deals in the CIS financial sector, including a deal on the sale of Electron Bank to Austria's Volksbank International, which was pronounced the best M&A deal of the year by the Adam Smith Institute.

"Strategic investors' interest in domestic banks and insurance companies is still high. In 2007, 42% of the deals on the Ukrainian M&A market were in the financial sector. According to our assessments, in 2008 the value of deals on the Ukrainian financial market will exceed $3 billion. We expect the purchase of banks from the top-twenty and medium and small banks, "reads the press release, citing director and the head of the investment and banking service department at Concorde Capital, Vitaliy Strukov.

Concorde Capital also forecasts that irrespective of the international crisis on the financial debt market and a fall in the number of potential buyers of Ukrainian banks, the correlation between the banks' value to their own equity would be still 4.0-5.0 for large banks and 3.0-4.0 for medium and small banks.

At present, Concorde Capital's portfolio includes over 15 M&A deals in various countries.

Concorde Capital Investment Bank provides a full range of investment and banking services in Ukraine, Russia and the CIS.