Aberdeen Banker Seals First Moscow Energy Deal

ENERGY investment bank Simmons & Company has concluded its first deal in Moscow and aims to open new bases in the Far East and Middle East as part of an expansion plan to take advantage of surging interest in the energy sector.

The eastern hemisphere operations of the Houston-headquartered bank are run by Colin Welsh, chief executive of Simmons & Co International from the Aberdeen base he set up six years ago.

He declined to disclose details of the first deal from the Simmons
Sunday Herald