"Mergers & Acquisitions in Russia Journal", a monthly analytical edition, is the premier professional magazine cov-ering main questions of M&A activity and passing of property in Russia. It is the only publication of its kind in the local market of business press. The journal is an independent publishing project, not connected with political and financial organizations, which is aimed, first and foremost, for an objective and comprehensive reflection of activities and trends in the Russian market for corporate control.
With support of:
National Association of
Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR) - is a Russian self-regulatory
organization that unites professional securities market participants: brokers,
dealers, trust managers and depositaries. NAUFOR's offices are located in 14
major Russian cities.
Aims and objectives of the
association are development and improvement of securities market regulation,
establishment of rules and standards of performance for companies on stock
markets.
NAUFOR sends out electronic
reports of professional stock market participants of the Federal Financial
Markets Service of Russia.
NAUFOR is an organizations accredited
to hold qualifying examinations for certificates of Federal Financial Markets
Service of Russia and seminars for officials of financial companies on counteracting
money laundering (AML / CFT).
Arbitration court operates at NAUFOR,
hearing disputes related to the securities’ market.
NAUFOR is an affiliate member of
IOSCO - the international organization that unites government agencies to
regulate the securities market.
The
National Securities Market Association (NSMA) is a leading organization of
professional participants of the Russian securities market. It was established
in January 1996 and numbers about 250 members, mainly from credit
organizations, located in 25 regions of 7 Federal districts of the country.
NSMA effectively executes all
specified functions of SROs, including the development and adoption of
professional standards, participation in the licensing of professional
participants, collecting and compiling reports on its base the ratings
(rankings) of professional participants, disclosure, monitoring of professional
participants, conducting professional audit, appraisal of market specialists’ securities.
The association also leads
complex projects to develop the market, represents the interests of Russian
participants in conjunction with ICMA and is a member of the European
Federation of Financial Markets.
Russian Institute
of Directors (RID) is a leading consulting, education and information center in
the area of corporate
governance, a key player in the creation and
ongoing improvement of the Russian Corporate Governance Code, the developer of
the Declaration of Principles of the Professional Association of Corporate
Directors, as well as the National Register of Professional Corporate Directors
and the National Corporate
Governance Rating (a consortium of Russian Institute of Directors and the
rating agency "Expert RA").
Since 2001, the RID has
undertaken training for companies - leaders of Russian business.
RID implements cooperation
programs with Russian regions introducing advanced standards of corporate
governance into the practice of regional companies.
The current members of RID are
the 18 largest Russian companies-issuers.
Official partner:
Eastland Capital is fast growing developing investment
company with sophisticated professional team specialized in
launching companies to a capital market in Russia and abroad.
Our core clients – mid and small cap companies.
One of the valuable parts of company activities is
maintaining bonds and share issues. Capital rising,
refinancing, debt restructuring, professional services in Investor
Relations field.
The strategic direction of our
company business is to promote in improvement and developing of the
business of our clients.
The company policy towards our clients is to
create a stable financial relations which
based on mutual confidence and respect.
Currently we are official listing partners of
Vienna Stock Exchange and MICEX as well as partners for Douche Borse,
NASDAQ OMX and RTS
Partners:
EquityStory RS is a subsidiary of EquityStory AG, the market leader for
online investor relations in the German-speaking region. The group renders
extensive business services in the areas comprising reporting requirements,
finance portals, audio and video broadcasts of investor events, online
financial reports as well as outsourced websites. Since 2008 EquityStory RS
offers this know-how for enterprises in Russia.
The corporate group employs financial analysts, communications experts
and software engineers, and thus has the three core competencies for online
investor relations.
EquityStory RS is your one-stop-shop for online investor relations. You
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DLA Piper is one of the largest international legal practices in the world with over 3,500 lawyers across 71 offices and 29 countries. From its offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, legal and business advisers provide a range of services to local, regional and international businesses.
DLA Piper has an established practice in Russia and the CIS. In our offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv and Tbilisi we have over 140 lawyers providing full scope legal support to local and international clients.
In Russia, with over 90 practicing attorneys in Moscow and St. Petersburg, our expertise spans all the traditional areas of legal practice, including: corporate, mergers and acquisitions; commercial and project finance; tax; litbanking and finance; asset finance and leasing; employment; intellectual property and technology; customs and currency control; energy etc.
Our UK qualified team, based in the Moscow office, further enhances our offering to clients by providing on the ground support for English law related transactions. This is complemented by several foreign lawyers with US, English, French and German legal training. We also speak your language - in addition to English and Russian, our lawyers speak French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Hebrew, and Uzbek.
DLA Piper is the largest legal and tax advisor in the North-West of Russia. We also have experience proving legal support on various projects in Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kaliningrad. We have been working in Russia since 1992 and have gained valuable experience working with courts, local administration bodies, customs and tax authorities.
DLA Piper's clients range from multinational enterprises to emerging high-tech companies and start-ups.
Our understanding of how business is conducted in Russia, and how that business interrelates with local, regional and international political and economic issues, allows us to deliver a comprehensive and high quality service in this dynamic and competitive marketplace.
Veles Capital
Investment Group is a part of Veles Capital group of companies. Veles Capital
Investment Group provides advisory services and implements projects of any
complexity: M&A, LBO and MBO transactions, equity investments and IPO. The
Company offers comprehensive solutions of accompanying objectives: development
of equity and asset restructuring schemes, comprehensive financial due
diligence, assessment of commercial and financial risks, financial
consulting, legal advice, market research, project finance support.
Veles Capital
is a fast growing and highly diversified private Investment Company that offers
a wide range of financial and consulting services: Asset Management, Stock and
Debt Market operations, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Consulting and
Project Finance, Wealth Management, Custody Services; Research, Real Estate,
Leasing, Staff Recruitment and Human Resource Consulting, Legal Counseling.
General information partner:
Interfax
Information Services Group provides news
and other information products that are essential for decision-makers in politics
and business.
Interfaxoffersa fullrange of servicestogovernments,NGOs, business andmedia:it ispoliticalandeconomic news, theinformationfromRussian regionsand CIS countries,information on stock exchange, analysis,businessinformationby companies,the databaseof SPARKandSCAN,ratingsandrankings,services in theIRanddisclosure, creditreports,press conferences,placingInternet advertising.
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Finmarket Finmarket
"http://www.finmarket.ru/, is founded in March 1994 and in 2007 entered
the international group Interfax, provides a full range of the original
intelligence on financial and commodity markets and retail financial services.
Daily, the agency offers more
than 300 news feed analytical comments and forecasts, provides quantitative
data on services in the financial market, coming from hundreds of banks, as
well as members of the OTC market and other financial institutions.
On the basis of professional
information resources Finmarket and other agencies of the Interfax Group
develops popular Internet portals:
- Finmarket.ru: a full range of
information on Russian financial and commodity markets and all major events in
economics and politics;
- "Private Money" http://www.pmoney.ru/ provides information on
how to maintain and increase personal savings, manage real estate, choose an
insurance company, take a loan, etc.;
- RusBonds http://www.rusbonds.ru/ is a professional
resource on Russian bonds’ market.
Official media-partner:
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MFD-InfoCenter, Ltd. is a leader in Russia on the market of real-time financial information (quotes, news, and software) for investors and professional participants of Russian markets.
The basic directions of our business are real-time financial information, software technologies for internet-trading, news, advertising and PR-campaigns, as well as consulting.
Among our projects is also NetInvestor (http://netinvestor.ru/ ), internet-trading software. This system is used by more than 40 banks and investment companies.
Other known product are Dixi+ (http://dixiplus.ru/) and TickTrack terminals.
Website MFD.RU- providing operative economics and financial information. On our website the information on the current exchange rates and their archives, stock quotes and indexes is submitted, to news and analytics of the share and financial markets of Russia, also in the international markets. Daily our website visit more than 10000 investors in Russia.
Except for own information systems, technologies and resources our agency has created tens successful IT and PR-projects to order for the different companies.
Securities Market magazine Securities Market magazine is the #1 on the Russian financial market and is an essential source of information for those who manage finances, both for people working for governmental institutions and companies. Reports published in the magazine cover all the aspects of capital markets: analysis and forecast of the situation on the money market, as well as stock, bond, and derivatives markets; methods of risk and asset management; financial technologies and instruments; macroeconomic and sector reviews. As a link between companies, investors, and financial intermediaries, Securities Market covers the full range of issues related to investments – from developing a strategy to attract capital to searching for optimum ways to invest one’s own funds.
Mergermarket is an independent Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
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journalists based in 56 locations across the Americas,
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Brief information on SKRIN:
- “Comprehensive Information and News Disclosure System” (SKRIN) was founded in 1999 by the National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR).
- In 2000 the SKRIN system was registered as a mass media (registration certificate – EL №77-4035 as of 04.08.2000).
- In 2002 SKRIN was incorporated into the RTS Group.
- In 2007 SKRIN is an organization, authorized by the FFMS (Federal Financial Markets Service) to distribute the information disclosed on the securities market.
- The SKRIN Group incorporates the SKRIN Training Center (http://center.skrin.ru/) and the SKRIN Recruiting Agency (http://hr.skrin.ru/).
- The SKRIN database (http://www.skrin.ru) – the largest database on Russian companies (over 8 000 000 legal entities) and individual entrepreneurs. The database contains contact information/requisites, information on management and owners,accounting statements, bankruptcy data, a possibility to order data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), company news.
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Private Equity Russia&CIS Journal - the only English-language edition on
private equity investments in Russia & CIS, high-status journal focused on
private equity professionals and business owners.
ConsultantPlus
is the leading Russian software developer in the industry of
legal information services. The company maintains a huge corpus of
information – more than 4 400 000 documents, including federal and regional
legislation, accounting forms, consulting information on legislation, etc. Within
17 years since Summer 1992 a real industry of distribution of legal information
has been created. Now the Network consists of 300 RIC located in 150 cities all
over Russia. The customers have access to databases on federal, international
and regional legislation; a collection of advisory materials on accountancy,
taxation, court practice etc; thousands of transactional forms, including
business forms, real estate forms, trust deeds, wills and many more. In
addition RIC are developing databases on legislation of 83 regions of Russian
Federation.