The company was formed in 2004 by former managers of HypoVereinsbank’s private equity and project finance teams in Munich and Moscow. ACP is owned and managed by the two founding partners Vladimir Matias and Jan-Hendrik Röver.

During their employment at HypoVereinsbank, the partners worked mainly on asset based transactions in different regions, including the CIS. The team was involved in two“Deals of the Year” (awarded by the ProjectFinance Magazine) and significantly contributed to its former employer becoming No. 1 arranger for corporate finance transactions in the Russian Federation in 2002. In particular, the partners implemented the first Russian and Ukrainian project financings in the oil and gas sector involving international banks, namely the Ukrainian gas pipeline project “Gastransit” and the Russian oil upstream project “SeverTEK”. During 2001 and 2002, whilst they where still working at HypoVereinsbank, the partners raised over US$ 1.1 billion for the Russian gas giant Gazprom for its projects “Blue Stream” and “Zapolyarnoye”.

In 2004-2005, ACP acted as financial adviser to the Russian oil products pipeline company OAO AK Transnefteproduct and successfully raised US$ 753 million of financing for its strategic project “Sever”.

Currently the company advises, among others, OAO Gazprom on a large oil & gas upstream project, a partner in a Russian oil upstream production sharing agreement project, a Russian real estate company and is involved in a number of other investment banking and financial advisory projects.