Denis Khakimov
Career Highlights
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Sale of PayU GPO, a global e-Commerce payments business (2023)
- IPO of Optasia, a global embedded finance business, Joint Global Coordinator (ongoing)
- IPO of DKV, German fuel cards business, Joint Global Coordinator (on hold)
- HSBC capital stress testing – broking work with Head of IR, CFO and Treasury (2019-2023)
- Acquisition of Worldline terminals business by Apollo (2022)
- Sale of Lombard International US business, Blackstone-owned offshore wealth manager (2022)
- Potential acquisition of True Potential, a UK wealth manager (2021, adviser to underbidder)
- Warburg Pincus investment in the merger between Tilney and Smith & Williamson (2020)
- Potential merger of UK bank’s Wealth operations with top-5 independent UK Wealth Manager (2020)
- Demerger of RMB Holdings’ 34% stake in FirstRand (2020)
BNP Paribas
- Sale of BNP Paribas B2B fund platform to Allfunds (c. €700m, 2019)
- Old Mutual Wealth IPO (£300m, 2018, Joint Bookrunner)
- Acquisition of Raiffeisen Bank Polska by BGZ BNP Paribas (2018, €775m)
- Potential acquisition of the UK offshore wealth manager, AXA Isle of Man, by Anbang (2017, £500m)
- Privatisation of Novo Banco, a leading Portuguese bank (2015, €1.0bn)
- Sale of a portfolio of UK high net worth individuals’ mortgages owned by Fortis (2015, £150m)
- Potential acquisition of Moneycorp, a UK-based remittance platform, by JC Flowers (2014, US$500m)
- Sale of Accelya, a leading Spanish airline FinTech company (2014, €500m)
- Worldline IPO (2014, €700m, Joint Bookrunner)
- Privatisation of a 20% stake in Apatit, a Russian chemical company through a 2-stage auction process (2012, US$220m)
Education
Bocconi University – MSc Finance – GPA 101/110 Full Merit Award
London School of Economics – BSc Economics – GPA First Class Honours Degree
Languages
Russian (Native), English (Fluent), French (Advanced), Italian (Intermediate)
Interests
Outside of the office Denis enjoys playing Squash, Tennis, Running and Surfing.