Atomic Capital is an independent investment banking firm headquartered in Moscow, Russia. The company specializes in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital raising, business exits, shareholder realignment, and corporate restructuring for private companies. The firm serves entrepreneurs, family businesses, institutional investors, and corporate shareholders who require tailor-made solutions outside of traditional public-market processes.
Atomic Capital focuses on projects that demand strategic thinking, controlled execution, and full confidentiality. The firm operates as a boutique advisor, maintaining a limited number of active mandates in order to ensure senior-level attention and precise project management.
General Profile
- Type: Private, independent advisory firm
- Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
- Founded by: Experienced professionals in investment banking, corporate law, and financial strategy
- Core markets: Russia, CIS, selected cross-border jurisdictions
- Industries served: Industrial manufacturing, logistics, business services, education, technology, healthcare, and regional infrastructure
Services Overview
Atomic Capital provides integrated advisory across the full transaction lifecycle:
- M&A advisory
- Buy-side and sell-side representation
- Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
- Minority and majority share sales
- Multi-stage or phased exit strategies
- Capital raising
- Private equity and hybrid capital structuring
- Investor identification and transaction management
- Governance and control modeling for investor integration
- Business preparation and structuring
- Legal and ownership streamlining
- Operational and management formalization
- Financial diagnostics and investor readiness assessment
- Succession and transition planning
- Intergenerational transfer
- Business continuity modeling
- Partial exit and legacy protection strategies
- Special situations
- Distressed or pressured exits
- Confidential shareholder resolution
- Post-deal integration and separation management
Each engagement is customized to client goals, legal environment, and market dynamics.
Client Types
Atomic Capital works with:
- Business owners and founders
- Family shareholders and legacy ownership structures
- Corporate groups seeking divestitures or spin-offs
- Minority stakeholders seeking exits or governance change
- Private and institutional investors seeking proprietary deal flow
Client businesses typically generate annual revenues between USD 5 million and 200 million and are privately held, with varying degrees of internal governance and formalization.
Advisory Model
Atomic Capital follows a project-based advisory model:
- A dedicated team is assigned to each project
- Engagement begins with goal definition and feasibility review
- Work is structured into clear stages: strategy, preparation, investor/buyer engagement, transaction execution
- All communication and materials are prepared under NDA
- All transactions are privately executed unless otherwise agreed
The firm does not operate an online deal platform or engage in mass marketing of opportunities.
Leadership
All engagements are led by senior professionals. The firm is managed by Alexander Zaytsev, CEO, who has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, private equity advisory, and institutional financial management. Zaytsev’s expertise includes ownership restructuring, M&A negotiations, asset divestment, and confidential shareholder processes.
He is personally involved in strategic planning, counterparty selection, and key negotiation rounds for all high-sensitivity projects.
Competitive Advantages
- Confidentiality-first culture: All transactions are conducted privately.
- Strategic depth: The firm supports not only deal execution, but also pre-transaction design and internal alignment.
- Experienced leadership: Senior involvement throughout the process.
- Local presence: Deep knowledge of Russian market and stakeholder behavior.
- Flexibility: Projects are adapted to client circumstances, timelines, and constraints.
- Cross-disciplinary: Legal, tax, financial, and strategic dimensions are integrated under one engagement.
Sample Use Cases
- Owner of a regional logistics company preparing for partial sale to a strategic partner
- Family shareholders planning intergenerational transfer with partial monetization
- Private company preparing for capital attraction while preserving governance control
- Minority shareholder negotiating buyout from a legacy joint venture
- Business owner facing regulatory or financial pressure requiring expedited exit
Contact Information
Atomic Capital
Petrovka St., 7, Geneva House Business Center
Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 (495) 488 66 33
Email: [email protected]
Website: atomiccapital.ru