Barclays is relocating Nikita Turkin as Head of Equity Advisory & Origination for MENA from London where he was Head of CEEMEA Equity Capital Markets, strengthening the advisory and capital markets bench in the Middle East it has been assembling across the region through 2026.
Turkin has spent more than twelve years at Barclays and has led the bank's CEEMEA equity capital markets franchise from London since March 2019.
Turkin joined Barclays in May 2014 as an associate in the EMEA equity capital markets team, covering the Nordics, DACH and CEEMEA. He was promoted to vice president in March 2016 with responsibility for ECM origination and execution across the same three regions, and took over as Head of CEEMEA Equity Capital Markets in March 2019.
In that role he has run the CEEMEA ECM team and region across both public transactions, including initial public offerings and follow-ons, and private capital markets deals. He describes his own record as more than 100 equity capital markets transactions, raising over USD 50 billion for clients across the past decade.
Before Barclays he spent three years at Renaissance Capital, joining as an ECM analyst in January 2011 across London, Moscow and Johannesburg, including a six month secondment to the firm's South African banking team covering South and sub-Saharan Africa. He was promoted to associate in January 2013, covering CEEMEA origination and execution while concurrently running the CEEMEA equity syndicate desk.
Earlier he was an investment manager at Wind Energy Systems Russia, a private equity fund and investment holding company financing wind farm construction in Russia and the CIS, and began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in audit and assurance for financial services, working with banking and capital markets clients on assurance and structured finance due diligence.
