SPONSORS

BNY MellonBNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping our clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, we deliver informed investment management and investment services through our client-focused efforts in 36 countries and more than 100 markets. Our insight is backed by our unique perspective that comes from having over $26.3 trillion in assets under custody and administration, and over $1.4 trillion in assets under management. Whether our clients are looking to create, trade, hold, manage, distribute or restructure investments, we can act as a single point of contact for our clients’ investment needs. We want our clients to succeed.
http://www.bnymellon.com/
Citi Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. In 2012 Citi celebrated its 200 years anniversary from the moment of corporation’s foundation in 1812.

Citi is one of the oldest international investments banks on the ground in Russia. The Bank has been present in Russia since 1992 and has a fully-fledged integrated investment and corporate banking operations as well as Moscow based equity brokerage operations including comprehensive industry research coverage and sales and trading platforms. Citi has long been a leader in Russia equity issuance with particular strength in largest and innovative transactions. Citi has executed the largest number of jumbo Russian equity deals since 2007. In April of this year, Citi was named Best Investment Bank in CIS and CEE and Best Foreign Investment Bank in Russia by EMEA Finance magazine.

http://www.citibank.ru

PC-DPLLP-logoDebevoise & Plimpton LLP is a leading international law firm, representing a wide range of clients in transactions and disputes around the world. Founded in 1931, the firm now has approximately 650 lawyers and offices in New York, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The firm’s practice in Russia and the CIS countries has grown steadily since its inception in 1988 and includes advice to clients on a wide range of issues including mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets, natural resources, real estate and development, general corporate law, corporate and project finance, aircraft and equipment leasing, private equity fund formation, insurance, antitrust legislation and international arbitration.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.debevoise.com

ErnstYoungAbout Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 167,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

Ernst & Young expands its services and resources in accordance with clients’ needs throughout the CIS. 4,500 professionals work at 19 offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Togliatti, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Almaty, Astana, Atyrau, Baku, Kyiv, Donetsk, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Minsk.

For more information about our organization, please visit http://www.ey.com.

Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.

Gazprombank Gazprombank (Open Joint-Stock Company) is the third largest bank in the Russian Federation.
The Bank’s principal business areas are corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking and depositary services. Its banking activities also include securities trading, foreign exchange operations, precious metals operations, clearing operations and settlement services.
The Bank has a distribution network of 43 branches and over 300 banking outlets located throughout the Russian Federation, providing services to more than 45,000 corporate clients, including most of the largest Russian companies, and to more than 3 million individuals.
GPB also has ownership interests in three other Russian banks. In addition Gazprombank is represented in the markets of Belarus, Armenia and Switzerland through ownership interests in local banks. Gazprombank also has representative offices in Mongolia, China and India.

http://gazprombank.ru

Merrill Corp Merrill Corporation enables companies to manage complex, confidential and highly sensitive business information. We provide organisations with secure web‐based tools to gather organise and manage time‐sensitive information. With more than 6,000 people in across 85 locations, we work on a 24/7/365 basis.

Regulatory and Compliance Filing services
• SEC filing utilising qualified CPAs
• Expert knowledge of financial statement disclosure, XBRL and SEC requirements
• iXBRL services for HMRC tax filings

Merrill DataSite – Virtual Data Room solution

Merrill DataSite is the leading virtual data room solution (VDR) that provides an efficient and secure method of sharing information online. Merrill DataSite has empowered over 2 million unique visitors to perform electronic due diligence on transactions totalling trillions of dollars.

• Processed over 600 million pages, launched over 25,000 VDR projects
• 85 Project managers cover 27 languages on a 24/7/365 basis
• Comprehensive search functionality, real-time activity reports, advanced Q&A feature

Visit www.merrillcorp.com or http://www.datasite.com

M:Communications M:Communications launched its Russian office in May 2010 and today is the leading financial PR and IR advisor in the region, with more people dedicated to Russian clients than any other international agency.
We have a clear business model that allows us to focus on what we do best: investor relations, financial media relations and crisis communications. We are the undisputed leaders for Russian and CIS IPOs and capital raising. And we have strong expertise across a number of sectors, from oil and gas to financials, to industrials, transportation, tech and more.
Most of all, we distinguished by the exceptional quality of our people. In our offices in Moscow and London we have some of the best Russian and international financial PR and IR professionals in the market – people with decades of experience of Russia and the CIS, and with a mixture of agency, in-house and financial journalism experience.

http://mcomgroup.com

White-&-Case-logoWhite & Case is a leading global law firm with approximately 2,200 lawyers in 27 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, White & Case established its London office in 1971 and its Moscow office in 1991.
White & Case is one of the market leaders in capital markets in Russia and across the CIS region and has earned a reputation for consistent high-quality advice. Our capital markets team advises investment banks, issuers and shareholders on the full range of equity and equity-linked instruments, including IPOs, follow-on and secondary offerings, as well as convertible and exchangeable bonds. We advise on listings of shares and equity related securities on stock exchanges in Russia, as well as for Russian companies seeking international listings. Our Moscow and London capital markets teams regularly work together on offerings and our teams are seamlessly integrated, allowing us to provide you with Russian, English and US law capabilities in order to comprehensively meet all the demands of a complex international securities transaction.

http://www.whitecase.com

In case your company is interested presenting at the conference or raising profile by becoming a conference sponsor, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Ayuna Nechaeva
Business Development Manager
Russia, CIS & Mongolia
London Stock Exchange
T: +44 207 797 4386
anechaeva@londonstockexchange.com
Irina Yukhtina,
Director
Advantix Ltd
(conference manager)
T: +44 207 520 9341
ira.y@advantix.co.uk