BG Capital (established in 2000 as Galt & Taggart Securities and renamed in September 2009Galt & Taggart Securities renamed in BG Capital
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Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

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, and

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. Headquartered in

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, the capital of

, BG Capital offers a range of investment-related services, including equity and fixed income

broker A broker is a person or firm who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for a commission when the deal is executed. A broker who also acts as a seller or as a buyer becomes a principal party to the deal. Neither role should be confu ...

age, research, equity and debt capital-raising, investment banking, and asset management. The company is a member of the Bank of Georgia Group, and is wholly owned by

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, which is listed on the

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under the BGEO LI ticker.

Brokerage

BG Capital specializes in both equity and debt brokerage services, and is able to trade securities directly on over 180 worldwide exchanges. Since 2008 BG Capital was named as one of the top-3 Ukrainian investment companies in Thomson Extel Survey. In 2010 BG Capital was named the best Frontier Market Investment Bank in Central & Eastern Europe by Euromoney 2010 Awards for Excellence for leading financial companies.BG Capital named Best Frontier Market Investment Bank in Central & Eastern Europe by Euromoney 2010 Awards for Excellence
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Investment Banking

Since 2005, BG Capital has completed more than 30 capital-raising transactions
/ref> on regional debt and equity markets, valued at approximately $1 billion, according to company estimates. In November 2006, BG Capital acted as the exclusive selling agent for Bank of Georgia’s

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...

(IPO) on the

, which raised $159.8 million, and in December 2007 the company was a joint adviser on one of Ukraine’s largest M&A deals, the sale of 100% i
ISTIL Group
t
ESTAR Management Company Ltd
In October 2009 BG Capital was the sole placement agent and bookrunner for the secondary private placement of a 17.2% equity stake in one of Ukraine's largest agricultural holdings
Sintal Agriculture
on the

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under the SNPS GF, which was one of the few large Ukrainian equity placements in 2009. In March 2010 BG Capital became a full IPO PartnerBG Capital became a full IPO Partner
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Sources

{{reflist Financial services companies of Ukraine Investment banks Financial services companies established in 2000 Ukrainian companies established in 2000