Working across geographies on origination and execution of both capital markets and derivative related transactions in the main markets in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa• Led origination and execution of equity and derivative transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, convertibles and commodity linked instruments.• Identified potential equity issuers and new equity capital raising by corporate clients; gathered market intelligence, performed buy-side investor, equity market conditions and offering size analyses and prepared deal and non-deal roadshow layouts. • Prepared pitch presentations for corporate clients on common stock issuance, equity and commodity-linked alternatives, dividend strategy and share repurchases. • Coordinated efforts with deal team members across the Firm including the capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, research and sales and trading departments. Supervised and train junior analysts.• Participated in prospectus drafting and due diligence, preparation of roadshow schedules and presentations, investor targeting, investor feedback collection and development of equity pricing materials.• Conducted corporate broking services to clients by advising on share price, company strategy, capital and financing issues on day to day basis and organised capital markets days for Lukoil, Gazprom, Moesk, Uralkali, Ecobank and others.• Managed account opening process for corporate clients and liaison with compliance and legal divisions.Recent projects: Led the execution of $50m Savannah Petroleum (Niger, E&P) IPO on AIM, $500m Seplat (Nigeria, Oil producer) IPO on LSE, $95m Umeme (Uganda, Power distributor) follow-on on Nairobi Stock Exchange and a number of smaller follow-on offerings and block trades

• Performed quantitative and financial modelling for structuring of equity transactions using balance sheet, income statement, public comparables and transaction comparables analyses.• Developed insightful pages on capital and commodity markets themes and trends across Emerging Markets and globally for use during the client meetings and internally for identifying new opportunities. • Liaised with the country’s listing authorities (UKLA), exchanges (London Stock Exchange, Moscow Exchange, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, AIM), Takeover Panel and transaction lawyers. • Provided guidance to clients on proving guidance on the application of FSA Rules, AIM Rules, Takeover Code and corporate governance/ investor guidelines.Key projects: Completed 15+ IPOs and Follow-on offerings including Feronia(DRC), Zambian Breweries (Zambia), Zambeef (Zambia), Master Drilling (SA), Elemental Minerals (ROC), Ivanplats from Sub-Saharan Afrca and Tinkoff Bank, Alrosa, Phosagro, Ros Agro, Ruspetro, Moscow Exchange, Mechel from CIS/Russia and other transactions as part of the transaction team.

• Reviewed the accounts of major oil and gas producers and refineries to ensure the validity and legality of their financial records by collating, checking and analysing spreadsheet data and preparing reports and commentaries.• Performed transformation of audited financial statements from Russian accounting principles into IFRS and U.S. GAAP.