MOSCOW, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Russia has approved a shortlist of ten companies including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank who may advise on a planned $59 billion asset sale, the government said on Thursday.
The instruction signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government would pick advisors from the list of banks to help on its proposed asset sale, the biggest since Russia's rigged privatisations of the 1990s.
"The Economy Ministry is to select companies from the list ... to organise in the name of the Russian Federation the sale of privatised federal property," the instruction said.
Russia is fine-tuning the plan to sell off $59 billion in assets, Putin's spokesman said last week.
The following is the list of the companies included in the instruction, No.1874-p:
1) Credit Suisse's
2) VTB Capital, a Russian investment bank
3) Deutsche Bank
4) VEB Capital, the investment banking unit of state Russian bank VEB
5) JP Morgan
6) Merrill Lynch
7) Morgan Stanley's
8) Renaissance, a Russian investment bank
9) The Auction House of the Russian Federation
10) Goldman Sachs (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)