Marshall Capital has increased its stake in RosTeleCom to 10.4% with a recent purchase that equaled 3.4%. The shares which were purchased came from Yevgeny Yurchenko, the former CEO of the company. The transaction was expected to finalize when the stocks hit bottom. RosTeleCom (www.rt.ru) RosTeleCom was first established in 1993 as a phone company. Since [...]

Russia’s Nutritek, the nation’s largest baby food producer, has revealed plans for a secondary share offering through which it hopes to raise as much as USD 100 million. With a price of USD 1 per share, the 100 million new shares were to be placed on the MICEX. Company shareholders, among whom Marshall Capital Partners is the [...]

Russian companies Marshall Capital and Pharmacy 36.6 announced in early spring of this year that they had entered negotiations allowing Marshall to acquire up to 25% of Pharmacy 36.6 via a share sale. The deal was estimated to be worth between USD 60 million and USD 70 million, though neither party would release hard numbers, [...]

Oleg Zherebtsov, founder of Russian cash-and-carry grocery chain Lenta, went public earlier this year about his desire to sell his stake in the company. In February it was reported that Zherebtsov was in talks with several investors including Warburg Pincus, TPG, Apax Partners, BC-Partners and Siguler Guff & Company. It now appears that Marshall Capital [...]

Marshall Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley formed Russian Mayak Corporate Real Estate, which will offer its services to clients in both the public and private sectors. Mayak will focus on investors whose real estate assets, while sizable, are not part of their core business operations. The firm will also advise both Marshall Capital Partners and [...]

Rumors are circulating regarding Marshall Capital’s desire to acquire a majority position in Russian baby food producer OAO Nutrinvestholding. Marshall Capital already owns a 50% stake and might be pursuing a privately negotiated purchase of almost 4 million ordinary shares to increase its stake to 75%. OAO Nutrinvestholding (www.nutritek.ru) Nutrinvestholding is a holding company that [...]

Russian private equity firm Marshall Capital Partners has tapped J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services to provide them with equity fund administration. J.P. Morgan’s Private Equity Fund Services already provides administration services worldwide for more than 200 funds with USD 200 billion in assets, but the Marshall Capital agreement is the company’s first deal of this [...]

Marshall Capital and Russian health and drugstore chain Pharmacy 36.6 have begun negotiations aimed at completing a share sale, giving Marshall as much as a 25% stake in the debt laden Pharmacy 36.6. Though neither company has released any numbers, the deal has been estimated to be between USD 60 and USD 70 million and [...]

Russian private equity group Marshall Capital Partners now manages two direct investment funds, with a current total value of more than USD 450 million and plans to increase funding to USD one billion. The two investment funds are referred to as Marshall Capital I (MarCap I) and Marshall Capital II (MarCap II). Marshall Capital Partners [...]