KIEV, May 17, 2010 – Dragon Capital, the top investment bank in Ukraine, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary and confidently looking ahead to new endeavors.

Over the past decade, the company has grown from a small investment boutique into a major investment bank which is no now responsible for more than a third of trades on the Ukrainian Exchange, the country’s main stock trading platform. Dragon Capital completed more than 50 investment-banking deals, including IPOs, private placements and M&A transactions, having raised about $2 billion for major Ukrainian companies. The company holds six “Best Equity House in Ukraine” awards from Euromoney.

"One has to come up with a revolutionary idea to make it in Western markets these days”, pointed out Tomas Fiala, Founder and Managing Director of Dragon Capital, in his congratulatory speech. “In Ukraine, one can succeed by satisfying three key conditions: create and maintain a professional, cohesive and loyal team; develop and implement a sound strategy benefiting your clients, and be enormously patient and committed to the business you are in. I’m happy to see us being remarkably successful in each of the areas.”

"I would like to thank our competitors for their presence on the market as they keep us in excellent shape and strengthen our resolve to succeed”, added Dmytro Tarabakin, Dragon Capital’s Co-founder, Managing Director and Head of Trading and Domestic Sales. “I feel honored to express exceptional gratitude to our partners who helped us develop large-scale and important projects such as the launch of the Ukrainian Exchange and enact legislation essential for the development of a civilized stock market in Ukraine.”

Dmytro Tarabakin recalls, “A full 10 years have passed since we came up with an idea to establish an investment company, but it looks as if it were only 10 weeks ago. We used to have only 16 people in our first team, all sitting in a small rented office but their eyes burning with determination to make our business a success. Still, we did not dare to think back then of becoming a 160-strong team. Impressively, we have grown 10 times over 10 years. I believe that the next decade will bring us equally strong results, surpassing our boldest expectations.”

About Dragon Capital
Dragon Capital is Ukraine's leading securities brokerage, investment banking, private equity and asset management firm offering a comprehensive range of services to institutional, corporate and private clients. Established in 2000, the company is an independent partnership controlled by management, with a small minority stake held by Goldman Sachs. Dragon Capital is the largest Ukrainian securities broker, accounting for over a third of trades in equities on the Ukrainian Stock Exchange (UX) in 2009. Since its inception Dragon Capital has completed more than 50 deals, including IPOs, private placements and M&A transactions, having raised about $2 billion for major Ukrainian companies in the fastest-growing sectors of the local economy: banking, agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, media, food processing, pharmaceuticals and more. Dragon Capital’s asset management business has about $0.6 billion under management. The company’s volume leadership is also recognized by a series of awards from PFTS. Dragon Capital holds six “Best Equity House in Ukraine” awards from Euromoney. In 2009 Dragon Capital ranked first among Ukrainian brokerage houses in the Thomson Reuters Extel Pan-European Survey 2009 for having the best equity and equity-linked research. www.dragon-capital.com

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Tomas Fiala, Managing Director, Dragon Capital	Dmytro Tarabakin, Managing Director, Head of Trading and Domestic Sales, Dragon Capital	Brian Best, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Dragon Capital
Kamil Goca, Director, New Business Development, Dragon Capital	Guests at 10 Year Anniversary of Dragon Capital	Tomas Fiala is delighted to receive greetings
Guests at 10 Year Anniversary of Dragon Capital	Tomas Fiala is delighted to receive greetings	Dragon Capital celebrates 10 Year Anniversary