As a Managing Director for Dubai International Capital Global Equities, Rainer Schwarz is responsible for investments in public securities with a particular focus on investment evaluation and due diligence processes.

Rainer joined Dubai International Capital in February 2007. He was previously an investment manager with the private equity firm PPM Capital Limited, where he focused on mid-market private equity transactions in German-speaking countries. Prior to that, he spent four years in the mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets advisory group of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking in Frankfurt and Paris. He began his career in 1999 as a buy-side equity research analyst in Switzerland.

Born in Germany and raised in Brazil, Rainer graduated from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with a Licentiate in Business Administration, Economics and Law, majoring in Finance and Capital Markets.