Dragon Capital
Ruslan Chamanov is a Senior Investment Analyst in Private Equity at Dragon Capital since March 2023. Previously, Ruslan served as a Senior Financial Analyst at EY in the Strategy and Transactions department from August 2021 to February 2023, having also held the role of Advanced Staff focused on Transaction Diligence. Prior to EY, Ruslan was an Associate in Strategy and Operating Consulting at PwC Ukraine from July 2019 to August 2021, concentrating on financial function transformation and operational due diligence. Ruslan began the career as an Audit Associate at PwC Ukraine. Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law from Kyiv National Economics University (2023-2027), a Master's degree in Corporate Finance and Controlling from the same university (2021-2023), and a Bachelor's degree in International Economics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2016-2020).
Dragon Capital
Dragon Capital is one of Ukraine’s leading groups of companies working in the field of investment and financial services, offering a comprehensive range of services in equities and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity and asset management to institutional, corporate and private clients. Established in 2000, the company was minority-owned from 2007-2017 by Goldman Sachs, one of the largest global banks. Dragon Capital accounts for the largest share of turnover on the Ukrainian stock market carrying out approximately a third of reported transactions. The company also dominates the Ukrainian debt market, with Dragon Capital’s DCM team advising leading corporates and banks on raising debt through local bonds, Eurobonds, structured finance and bilateral debt. The company’s fixed-income sales and trading business acts as a market maker in both domestic and international debt instruments, trading actively with international and domestic investors. The company has completed more than 100 fundraising, advisory and M&A deals since inception and has raised more than $5bn in new capital. Our core investment banking products are domestic and cross border M&A transactions, IPOs, private placements, debt financing including issuance of local bonds and Eurobonds. In November 2015, Dragon Capital announced the launch of The New Ukraine Fund, a private equity investment fund focusing on growth-capital investments in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund LP (URF), a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) for Soros family clients is one of the first investors in the new Ukraine-focused fund. Visit Dragon Capital website for news and more information about our services, transactions, awards and the management team.