Third Rome Investment Solutions

Overview

Founded in 2009 by Andrey Movchan, a well-known figure in Russian finance and former head of Third Rome Asset Management, Third Rome Investment Solutions emerged after the financial crisis as an independent advisory and investment partnership. The firm serves high-net-worth individuals and private companies, drawing on Movchan's decades of experience in Moscow's capital markets. Its origins are tied to the post-Soviet generation of wealth, channeling capital from business owners and family fortunes into structured investment programs. The firm pursues a generalist strategy built around late-stage expansion and corporate finance mandates, targeting private Russian companies nearing maturity. Its investment approach combines direct equity and quasi-equity positions with advisory work on capital structuring and exit planning. Geographic focus remains domestic, though it has occasionally partnered with co-investors in European and Middle Eastern jurisdictions for cross-border structures. With at least two Moscow-based investment principals, the firm maintains a lean structure that pairs Movchan's public-market expertise from his tenure at Renaissance Capital and Troika Dialog with private-deal execution. Movchan also operates as a public intellectual in Russia, writing extensively on economics and policy for publications including Vedomosti. Third Rome's structural differentiator lies in its hybrid remit: it is neither a pure fund manager nor a conventional multi-family office, operating instead as an investment solutions partnership that originates, structures, and oversees corporate finance transactions for a small group of affluent clients. This model, common in Moscow but unusual globally, combines the bespoke discretion of a family office with the deal-sourcing network of a boutique investment bank.