Unicorn is a unique investment bank focused on providing financial advice throughout the Eurasian continent on mergers, acquisitions, financing, restructuring, and private capital raising to institutional and individual owners in all major industry sectors.
Unicorn was established in Vienna in 2002 by Sergei Moiseyev, the former associate of D.H. Blair & Co. and AllianceBernstein. Since its founding Unicorn has remained faithful to its two core competitive advantages: intense industrial expertise and fervent focus on client end game. Thus, Unicorn bankers are doing what they love to do most for the sake of the result, not for the sake of the process.
In terms of geographic expansion, in 2003 Unicorn entered the Former Soviet Union market by opening a Moscow office. In 2024 we entered the Middle East by opening offices in Manama.
In terms of industry sector coverage, Unicorn has recruited bankers with long experience and deep expertise in nearly every industry sector and continues to recruit and develop additional talent to deepen that sector coverage.
Lastly, in terms of types of advice, the Bank initially focused exclusively on mergers and acquisitions, gradually expanding into financing, restructuring and private capital raising.
In terms of geographic expansion, in 2003 Unicorn entered the Former Soviet Union market by opening a Moscow office. In 2024 we entered the Middle East by opening offices in Manama.
In terms of industry sector coverage, Unicorn has recruited bankers with long experience and deep expertise in nearly every industry sector and continues to recruit and develop additional talent to deepen that sector coverage.
Lastly, in terms of types of advice, the Bank initially focused exclusively on mergers and acquisitions, gradually expanding into financing, restructuring and private capital raising.
Unicorn has advised on a wide range of transactions across numerous regions and industries, comprising mergers, acquisitions, financing, restructuring and private capital raising. Transactions highlighted below are representative of Unicorn engagements. In addition, the Bank has completed many publicly undisclosed engagements.
20.03.2024
Margarita Sobol, Anastasia Kovaleva, Maxim Stulov, Vedomosti
The issue of selling Danone's Russian assets to local investors has been resolved (in Russian)
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14.08.2024
Unicorn Capital Advisers served as financial advisor in the sale of 375 pharmacies under Farmani and Aptechestvo brands located in eight regions of the Russian Federation to pharmacy chain Rigla.
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Veles Capital magazine Investments
M&A market: on the crest of a tsunami (In Russian)
Professional opinion № 1 (13)/2023
We continue to navigate the stages of natural (non-) disasters in the M&A markets and what they bring to investors, with M&A consultant Unicorn Capital Advisors.
The word "transformation" is best suited to describe the current period. In our work as M&A advisors, we find it everywhere today: in the approach to business processes and activity, in the unexpected willingness of many owners to get money for a deal from the pot of "tomorrow", in asset valuation, in changing the owners' sense of themselves and their position (business, stability, confidence)
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29.03.2024
Margarita Sobol, Maxim Stulov, Vedomosti
The Chelyabinsk court arrested Makfa shares at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office (In Russian)
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30.08.2023
Alexey Polukhin, Vedomosti
GAP "Resources" bought the Vologda producer of compound feeds (In Russian)
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02.11.2022
Margarita Sobol, Elizaveta Klochkova, Daria Molotkova, Vedomosti
Trust will put Mikayla Shishkhanov’s poultry farms up for auction (In Russian)
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17.07.2020
Vedomosti
The owner of Volma bought Yakobashvili’s share in сereal manufacturer (In Russian)
The deal to sell the package to Yuri Goncharov will be held at a price close to nominal, adds the interlocutor of Kommersant. The authorized capital of Arched-product is 119.25 million rubles, so 51% of the company can be estimated at about 60.81 million rubles. Chairman of Unicorn Capital Advisors (exclusive advisor for the sale of the Arched Product) Sergey Moiseev said that he welcomes the appearance of a new investor in the company with opportunities for business expansion.
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22.11.2022
Margarita Sobol, Elizaveta Klochkova, Vedomosti
Billionaire Iskander Makhmudov’s partner may get one more asset of the AFG National agricultural group (In Russian)
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13.10.2022
Margarita Sobol, Elizaveta Klochkova, Vedomosti
Trust will sell Mikail Shishkhanov’s agricultural business (In Russian)
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12.08.2022
Margarita Sobol, Anna Kiselyova Vedomosti
Sminex founder Alexey Tulupov continues to buy bakery enterprises (In Russian)
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1 (12) / 2021
Veles Capital magazine Investments
M&A market: on the verge of a tsunami (In Russian)
Professional opinion № 1 (12) / 2021
2020 turned out to be an exceptional year for the M&A sector: the number of closed transactions decreased, which is understandable: the owners of companies were busy responding to the crisis, and in these difficult times, "extinguishing operational fires" became a priority for them.
However, despite the difficulties of the past year, Unicorn Capital Advisors' portfolio has not only successful closures at an attractive price, but also a number of new mandates in various industries. In our opinion, we are on the verge of an M&A tsunami.
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07.10.2022
Margarita Sobol, Elizaveta Klochkova, Vedomosti
Butter "Kupavushka" producer bought the assets of the singer's ex-husband Angeliki Agurbash (In Russian)
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31.11.2021
Vitaly Timkiv, Anatoly Kostyrev, Kommersant
Winemakers strengthen production (In Russian)
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17.12.2021
Anatoly Kostyrev, Kommersant
Mikhail Abyzov's former agribusiness is up for sale (In Russian)
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31.01.2021
Unicorn Capital Advisers served as financial advisor to Ilmix Group (Russia) in regard to its prescription drug and food supplement portfolio acquisition by Acino (Switzerland)
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11.02.2021
Unicorn Capital Advisers served as sole financial advisor to Integra Group (Saratov, Russia), owner of Dym Dymich, Rossiyanka, Chestny Retsept and other brands, on selling its business to a group of private investors
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13.07.2020
Unicorn Capital Advisers has been awarded an investment mandate on attracting strategic partner to pharmaceutical company Mosfarm.
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29.06.2020
Unicorn Capital Advisers appointed exclusive financial adviser on attracting strategic partner to Prioskolie
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12.06.2018
Sergey Moiseev, Getty Images, Forbes
Immune to crises: who makes money on toilet paper
(In Russian)
(In Russian)
In recent years, Russia has experienced several economic crises, each of which led to losses for businesses in a variety of industries. And only toilet paper manufacturers feel equally confident in any situation: in Russia, this segment is growing by 6% per year under any conditions
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29.12.2020
Ekaterina Burlakova, Evgeny Razumny, Vedomosti
One of the largest chicken meat producers may start producing sausages (In Russian)
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07.03.2018
Donat Sorokin/TASS, Natalia Novopashina, Irina Parfentieva, Galina Kazakova, rbc
Fund of ex-minpromtog officer will buy stake in spaghetti’s producer (In Russian)
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27.08.2021
Ekaterina Burlakova, Denis Abramov Vedomosti
Thailand's CP Foods will buy Russian pork producer APK Don (In Russian)
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25.06.2013
Ekaterina Gerashchenko, Kommersant
Ex-official put on a façade (in Russian)
Former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Andrey Dementiev and ex-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant Sergey Moiseev bought a controlling stake in the manufacturer of translucent facades "Constant Group"
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25.09.2012
Denis Skorobogatko, Kommersant
Andrey Dementyev joined an investment fund (in Russian)
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12.09.2011
Galina Kamneva, Vedomosti
Private pipes (in Russian)
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03.03.2015
Peter Rudenko, Forbes
Unicornucopia (in Russian)
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22.07.2011
Alexey Nepomnyashchy, Vedomosti
ChelPipe has stocked up on rare earth metals (in Russian)
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18.12.2009
Denis Rebrov, Kommersant
ChelPipe says goodbye to the service (in Russian)
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01.04.2010
Roman Asankin, Kommersant
ChelPipe remains in the oilfield service (in Russian)
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16.05.2011
Vedomosti
ChelPipe will remain private (in Russian)
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ChelPipe bought 30% of the niobium producer Technoinvest Alliance for $115 million. The company hopes to recoup the asset within 3-5 years due to rising metal prices
25.12.2008
Kommersant
CZP expects to reduce production by at least a third (in Russian)
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant predicts a reduction in production by at least 33% in 2009. As Sergey Moiseev, Chairman of the company's Board of Directors stated during a conference call, CZP plans to produce 100 - 110 thousand tons of zinc and its alloys by the end of next year.
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14. 07.2009
Varvara Protasevich, Vedomosti
FAS approved the purchase of Chelyabinsk zinc plant (in Russian)
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04.06.2009
Denis Varaksin, Julia Fedorinova Vedomosti
Zinc was divided (in Russian)
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29. 09.2009
Vedomosti
UMMC and RCC bought Chelyabinsk zinc plant (in Russian)
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11.04.2008
Kommersant
Shareholders of Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod elected the Board of Directors (in Russian)
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21.12.2007
Ksenia Rybak, Vedomosti
Zinc prices have been summed up (in Russian)
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26.05.2008
Maria Cherkasova, Kommersant
Zelimkhan Mutsoev rolls up the pipes (in Russian)
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01.11.2008
Vedomosti
CZP is reviewing its investment program (in Russian)
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27.09.2007
Kommersant
CZP was allowed to place an additional issue abroad (in Russian)
The Board of Directors has decided to issue additional shares in order to improve the liquidity of the company in the Russian market and enhance its investment attractiveness, as stated by Sergey Moiseev, Chairman of the Board.
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14.06.2007
Kommersant
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant is determined with a raw material base (in Russian)
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09.06.2007
Irina Malkova, Vedomosti
Chelyabinsk zinc to be shipped to Britain (in Russian)
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01.11.2007
Vedomosti
The main shareholder of CZP bought additional shares (in Russian)
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08.06.2007
Kommersant
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant buys British company Brock Metal (in Russian)
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant and Alumasc Group plc have reached an agreement on the purchase by the plant of Brock Metal, a leading manufacturer of zinc alloys in the UK. The transaction will be completed in July 2007.
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20.04.2007
Alexandra Petrachkova, Maria Rozhkova, Julia Fedorinova, Anna Nikolaeva, Vedomosti
Putin did not advise (in Russian)
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16.12.2006
Vera Stepanovna, Kommersant
The "Amur" zinc went to CZP (in Russian)
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15.12.2006
Vedomosti
CZP bought the deposit (in Russian)
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18.10.2006
Tatyana Shushakova, Kommersant
The Chelyabinsk plant will galvanize the London Stock Exchange (in Russian)
"Listing in London is the next key step in the development of the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant's strategy, it should attract new shareholders, increase trading liquidity and international status," Sergey Moiseev, head of the company's Board of Directors, said in the memorandum.
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12.10.2006
Sergey Tyagai, Olga Kocheva, Alexey Lampsi, Maria Cherkasova, Kommersant
Unfavorable reaction (in Russian)
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19.09.2006
Maria Cherkasova, Kommersant
Chelyabinsk zinc’s large stake will be listed on the stock exchange (in Russian)
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11.10.2006
Julia Fedorinova, Vedomosti
Where did Shvetsov get $ 106 million? (in Russian)
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23.08.2006
Vera Stepanova, Olesya Ratoshnyuk, Kommersant
ChelPipe's zinc assets were assigned to Sergei Moiseyev to collect (in Russian)
The co-owner of the ChelPipe Group, Alexander Fedorov, resigned as head of the Board of Directors of Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant. Sergey Moiseev, Managing Director of Arkli Capital LLC, was elected in his place
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22.08.2006
Julia Fedorinova, Vedomosti
“Your head may be spinning” (in Russian)
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26.08.2006
Maria Cherkasova, Alyona Miklashevskaya Kommersant
Arkley Capital will share ChTPZ-Steel with investors (in Russian)
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29.08.2006
Natalia Skorlygina, Kommersant
Placement of Empires (in Russian)
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30.05.2006
Vera Stepanova, Kommersant
CZP takes full control of Akzhal Mining and Processing Plant (in Russian)
Yesterday it became known that CZP is completing a deal to acquire 100% of the shares of Swiss Nova Trading & Commerce AG, which is the sole owner of the Nova Zinc mining company.
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25.05.2005
Maria Molina, Kommersant
Manufacturers of connecting parts have united (in Russian)
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03.10.2005
Juliana Petrova, Kommersant
Hard money (in Russian)
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06.06.2006
Ksenia Rybak, Vedomosti
ChelPipe Group came to the Czech Republic (in Russian)
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26.12.2002
Ilya Khrennikov, Vedomosti
ChelPipe imitates a holding (in Russian)
Andrey Komarov, the owner of ChelPipe, decided to transfer the functions of the sole executive body of the enterprise to a management company with the ambitious name United Pipe Plants
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20.09.2003
Ella Bidileeva, Kommersant
"Galvanization" of ChelPipe Group is completed (in Russian)
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19.09.2003
Dmitry Ponomarev, Kommersant
Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant replaced the Board of directors (in Russain)
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25.11.2004
Maria Molina, Kommersant
ChelPipe will take care of the billet (in Russian)
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