URALSIB Financial Corporation is a leader in the key segments of the Russian financial market. The core of the Corporation, URALSIB Bank, is among the five largest in Russia.

Ever since its establishment in 1988, URALSIB Financial Corporation has complied with the highest standards of transparency, efficiency and reliability in dealing with clients, partners and employees alike.

URALSIB member companies are leaders in different financial sectors, united by common strategic goals and a shared mission. The key elements of the group structure are URALSIB Bank (commercial banking), URALSIB Insurance Group (insurance), URALSIB Management Company (asset management) and URALSIB Capital (brokerage). NIKOIL Investment Commercial Bank, a URALSIB Financial Corporation subsidiary, has successfully operated in the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2002. NIKOIL ICB ranks as Azerbaijan's fifth largest commercial bank in terms of financial results. URALSIB Bank is the heart of the Corporation, where the major strategy decisions are made.

Today, URALSIB Financial Corporation offers a full range of corporate and retail financial services. The Corporation's commercial banking arm offers lending and leasing services, trade financing, factoring and private banking services. The investment banking arm provides brokerage, asset management, mutual funds management, depositary, corporate finance and management consulting services. URALSIB Insurance Group is licensed to offer 95 types of insurance and is a market leader. URALSIB has an integrated nationwide network of over 1,000 bank and insurance offices and employs 17,000 people.

The Bank of New York Company is a global leader in securities servicing for issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. The Company plays an integral role in the infrastructure of the capital markets, servicing securities in more than 100 markets worldwide. The Company provides quality solutions through leading technology for global corporations, financial institutions, asset managers, governments, non-profit organizations, and individuals. The Bank of New York, founded in 1784, is the oldest bank in the United States and has a distinguished history of serving clients around the world through its five primary businesses: Securities Servicing and Global Payment Services, Private Client Services and Asset Management, Corporate Banking, Global Market Services, and Retail Banking.

The Bank of New York is the world’s largest depositary for American and Global Depositary Receipts, allowing non-U.S. companies to offer dollar-denominated securities to investors worldwide. We act as depositary for some of the largest and most highly respected companies in the world, including those issuing the majority of the most actively traded Depositary Receipts. The Bank currently issues depositary receipts for more than 1,200 programs, from 900 companies in over 60 countries. The Bank of New York accounts for 64% of all public sponsored depositary receipt programs globally and 89% of Kazakh, 100% of Ukrainian and 71% of Russian depositary receipt programs. The Bank of New York created established the frist depositary receipt programs in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and most recently in Georgia.  Our overall success is based on the experience of our personnel, our advanced technology, our extensive reporting capabilities, our wide range of value-added services, the personalized administrative support we provide to our clients and our overall commitment to securities servicing.

Marsh, the world's leading risk and insurance services firm, has nearly 30,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding $5 billion. We provide global risk management, risk consulting, insurance broking, financial solutions, and insurance program management services for businesses, public entities, associations, professional services organizations, and private clients in over 100 countries.

Marsh Inc. is an operating unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC), a global professional-services firm based in New York with approximately 60,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding $12 billion.

MMC is also the parent company of: Mercer Consulting Group, a major global provider of consulting services, Putnam Investments, one of the largest investment management companies in the United States, Kroll, the world's leading risk consulting company and Guy Carpenter, the world's leading risk and reinsurance specialist.

Uniting local knowledge and experience with international expertise, Visor Capital provides the full range of professional investment banking services and advice, including Corporate Finance, Sales & Trading, and Research, to domestic and international clients.

The Visor group’s track record includes successful investment banking transactions in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Belarus. Our first-class team of professionals with a reputation for innovation, excellence and integrity has also been mandated for some of the largest upcoming transactions in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

Visor Capital’s team is experienced in coordinating complex international transactions that are tailored to the requirements of each client’s individual preferences.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP is a full-service, global law firm with more than 700 lawyers practicing in 19 offices worldwide.

LeBoeuf Lamb’s full-range capital markets practice covers offerings in all of the world's major markets. We have consistently ranked among the top U.S. firms by aggregate offering proceeds and/or number of offerings.

Attorneys in the practice represent both issuers and underwriters in a wide range of industries. The firm regularly monitors, advises companies and banks, and participates in the development of the regulation of securities offerings and listed companies in the U.S. and E.U., and in emerging markets such as Russia, Kazakhstan, other CIS states and China.

Our lawyers advise on a wide range of public and private offerings, including: IPOs, secondary offerings, universal shelf registrations and takedowns, preferred stock, debt securities, equity-linked instruments, hybrid instruments, funding-agreement-backed note programs, contingent capital facilities, ADR and GDR facilities and offerings, rights offerings, cross-border offerings.

The firm has served as underwriters' counsel for every major investment bank, and regularly serves as such in securities offerings by frequent issuers. We are also involved in the full range of securities offerings work for our clients in the insurance industry, from private placements to public offerings, debt financings, securitizations, and other corporate financing solutions.

JSC "Almaty Invest Management" is a dynamically developing financial company striving to held its leading positions on the equity market of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main purposes of the Company ? to extend its services range, to implement the equity market best practices and to make its own contribution in Kazakhstan integration to the world community.

The Company's key direction is to provide our Clients with high quality and universal service within the equity market.

Ansher Fund Management is the asset management subsidiary of Ansher Group AG. Ansher FM manages two investment funds - Central Asia Opportunity Fund and Central Asia Real Estate Fund focused on the region with significant natural resources and strong economic potential.

Shared Value advises international companies on the planning and implementation of corporate communications programmes surrounding capital raising transactions, listings, mergers & acquisitions, and ongoing marketing to the global investment community. 

Shared Value's team of professionals is drawn from backgrounds in fund management, equity research and sales, corporate finance and journalism and includes a number of Russian market specialists.  Shared Value has been active in Russia and the CIS for over 4 years and has worked with clients including CTC Media, EvrazHolding, Interros, OMZ, Pharmacy Chain 36.6, Rosbank, Sistema, Rambler and Wimm-Bill-Dann.

Our objective is to explain and market your business and investment case to ensure that your company's shares are fully valued. We achieve this by developing and communicating a compelling investment case, by establishing a positive and sustained profile in the media and by building and managing relevant relationships with shareholders, analysts and journalists.

Shared Value is an international financial public relations and investor relations business. We advise companies, institutions and individuals on all aspects of communications with the international investment and media communities. We are drawn from careers in investment banking, equity research, broadcast and print journalism and financial marketing and communications.

You live in a world of fast moving news and comment, which has global reach and impact. We offer you an unparalleled level of professional commitment to monitor and communicate your news and comment in multiple jurisdictions and time zones. We are here to save you time by investing our time, knowledge and energy to market your business to investors and to convince them of the merit of your case.

You are required to communicate with the investment community and business media - we can set up and manage this process efficiently. We do not delegate and you do not subsidise our leading curve. Our people uniquely integrate the ability to structure and sell your story to portfolio managers, research analysts and journalists.

The opportunity is to increase value and flexibility by effectively communicating your story. We provide you with the tools with which to communicate and direct access to the appropriate communication channels.

Financial Dynamics is the world’s number one public relations consultancy focused on financial and corporate communications, advising over 1,000 of the world’s leading companies.  FD was the first leading international agency to open a fully-owned, fully integrated investor relations practice in Moscow in 2005, and we remain the largest.  Since then, we have built a retained client list of many of the most important and successful business groups in the CIS, ranging from NLMK, to RUSAL, to Wimm Bill Dann, Vimpelcom, and many others.  We have supported some of the world’s largest and most complex transactions, and in 2006 were ranked number one financial communications firm in London for the seventh successive year.  FD was also voted ‘International Consultancy of the Year’ in the 2006 PR Week Awards.

FD works with clients in Kazakhstan in two significant ways: firstly, FD is the market leading PR firm handling IPOs in London and other leading capital markets, helping companies to communicate their investment case to raise capital for expansion or exit; secondly, it advises both privately-owned and listed companies, as well as State institutions, on their ongoing corporate communications and investor relations needs, to build their brands, protect their reputations, create value and win support for change. Our ability to provide senior advisors with local language capability and an awareness of local issues, linked seamlessly with leading communications counsel in the key capital markets, delivers an unparalleled resource to our clients.

Through world-class communications counsel and communications support, we help businesses and organizations:

• Maximize shareholder value
• Enhance and protect their reputations
• Raise capital (including on both AIM and the LSE)
• Build their brands and market their products
• Execute M&A transactions, and
• Influence the climate in which they operate
• We offer a unique mixture of industry sector knowledge and outstanding communications skills — combined with integrity, creativity and a passion for what we do.