Ukrainian Investment Summit

System Capital Management (SCM) is Ukraine’s leading financial and industrial group with revenues of US$ 15.985 billion in 2008. SCM's activity focuses on six core business areas: mining and metals, energy, finance, telecommunications, media and real estate. In addition, SCM manages and controls assets in other industry sectors including clay mining, retail and petrol filling stations. SCM also has strong international perspective with significant businesses in the US, European Union (Italy and Great Britain) and Switzerland and is committed to responsible, profitable and sustainable growth. Founded in 2000, System Capital Management (SCM) is headquartered in Donetsk, Ukraine, and is one of Europe's leading industrial holdings.

Corporate and Investment Bank Credit Agricole was back in 1993 the first fully operational Western bank in Ukraine under Credit Lyonnais brand and since 2004 under Calyon brand. Corporate and Investment Bank Credit Agricole is devoted to servicing international corporations and leaders in their field Ukrainian-owned groups.
In 2009, as in 2008, The Expert, Ukrainian economic weekly, named CIB Credit Agricole the most trustable bank in Ukraine.

CIB Credit Agricole:

-          n.1 bank in terms of cash management for international companies,
-          leader in the amount of foreign exchange and MM transactions in local currency for international companies,
-          leader in servicing merger & acquisition transactions.

www.ca-cib.com.ua

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax and legal, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 144,000 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 potential.

In 1991 Ernst & Young was the first among international professional services firms to establish its practice in Ukraine. Ernst & Young in Ukraine (Kyiv and Donetsk offices) now employs more than 500 professionals providing high-quality services to a number of multinational corporations and Ukrainian enterprises. Further information about Ernst & Young can be found at www.ey.com/ua.

INYURPOLIS Law Firm (ILF) was established in 1994 and today is one of the leading law firms in Ukraine. The firm's five partners are in charge of 30 highly qualified lawyers. ILF successfully combines consulting and litigation practices. Such an approach allows ILF's attorneys to effectively perform on many markets, including the financial services market. Among the firm's clients are leading Ukrainian banks, insurance and financial companies. In today's financial crisis environment debt recovery becomes No. 1 service required by banks. Because of  ILF's resources the firm is able to work in all the regions of Ukraine and to come up with innovative solutions that satisfy the interests of its clients even in the most complicated cases (e.g. transfers of assets by debtors to other persons or entities, insolvencies, etc.).

Eavex Capital - the new brand name of one of Ukraine's leading investment houses, offering select clients a full range of brokerage, investment banking, research, asset management, custody and consultancy services. Established in 1994 as Sincome Capital, the firm has been a pioneer since the inception of the capital markets in Ukraine, launching two privatisation voucher funds in 1995 with over 150,000 investors, co-founding PFTS - Ukraine's first trading platform - in 1996 and Ukrainian Exchange in 2008 and co-managing an international equity fund since 1998 that became the world's top performing equity fund in 2004. The firm's brokerage has consistently ranked in Ukraine’s top five volume traders throughout the last decade.
Relying on its core strengths of deep local expertise, long-term client partnerships and unrivaled market flexibility, the firm maintains a strategy based on conservative financial planning and risk management. The firm has guided clients to out-performance in both market rallies and downturns, carving out a unique niche as the most dependable partner in the dynamic capital markets of Ukraine. 
With the recent entrance of a new global investment partner, Eavex Capital is proud to announce the expansion of its select investment resources to a wider group of international investors. 
 

Baker & McKenzie provides sophisticated legal advice to the world’s most dynamic global enterprises, and has done so for 60 years.
The first foreign law firm to open an office in Ukraine, we currently assist over 550 multinational companies, financial institutions and major Ukrainian enterprises in their domestic and international operations. Now have one of the largest legal practices in Ukraine, offering expertise (in close cooperation with our offices worldwide) on all aspects of business activities in the region including corporate law, banking and finance, securities and capital markets, venture capital, competition law, tax and customs, real estate and construction, labor and employment, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
www.bakermckenzie.com

Founded in 1998, TAS Group was actively expanding its business in different sectors of the Ukrainian economy during last 12 years. Currently its interests include:
• Financial sector (banking, life and risk insurance, financial intermediary services; collection agency)
• Heavy industry (production of passenger and freight railcars, spare parts and casting for railway machinery)
• Real Estate (development of residential and commercial real estate, construction of residential and commercial buildings, property management)
• Other sectors (pharmaceutical retail, agribusiness, production of construction materials)
The founder and the main shareholder of the Group is Mr. Sergiy Tigipko, a successful businessman and politician, who gained support of more than 13% of Ukrainian voters during the last presidential elections of 2010.

Dragon Capital (www.dragon-capital.ua) is Ukraine's leading securities brokerage, investment banking, private equity and asset management firm offering a comprehensive range of services to institutional, corporate and private clients. Established in 2000, the company is an independent partnership controlled by management, with a small minority stake held by Goldman Sachs. Dragon Capital is the largest Ukrainian securities broker, accounting for over a third of trades in equities on the Ukrainian Stock Exchange (UX) in 2009. Since its inception Dragon Capital has completed more than 50 deals, including IPOs, private placements and M&A transactions, having raised about $1.7 billion for major Ukrainian companies in the fastest-growing sectors of the local economy: banking, agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, media, food processing, pharmaceuticals and more. Dragon Capital’s asset management business has about $0.6 billion under management. The company’s volume leadership is also recognized by a series of awards from PFTS. Dragon capital holds six Best Equity House in Ukraine awards from Euromoney. In 2009 Dragon Capital ranked first among Ukrainian brokerage houses in the Thomson Reuters Extel Pan-European Survey 2009 for having the best equity and equity-linked research.

Incom Company - is a leading Ukrainian IT-company that solves business problems using modern information technologies. High competence in IT-market, coupled with expertise in organizational management and industry expertise allow Incom Company to create the most efficient and optimal solutions for customers. Incom is an exclusive Ukrainian IT-enterprise which possesses 30 affiliates in the biggest Ukrainian cities and therefore has possibility to satisfy any service requirements of the customers all over Ukraine. Incom turnover makes more than 1 105 418 000 UAH in financial year 2008. History of Incom Company goes back to 1990. More information about Incom Company on website: www.incom.ua

B. C. Toms & Co was the first Western law firm to open a Kyiv office in 1991. We have long standing expertise and experience in Ukrainian banking law, including advising on syndicated credits, all types of secured finance, trade finance and bank regulatory issues, representing Ukrainian and multinational banks and investors. For example, we successfully acted for an oil and gas company to complete the first successful project financing in Ukraine (funded by the EBRD). We also have experience handling restructuring, reorganisation and bankruptcy law matters, acting for lenders and debtors, including to document equity for debt swaps. We have represented creditors to collect from debtors and avoid being defeated by fraudulent conveyances of property to hide assets as well as to act for debtors that are threatened with insolvency in order to reach arrangements with their creditors and reorganise.

Public Joint-Stock Company “Bank National Credit” is founded in 1996. Eleven years of activity in traditional banking business ensured bank dynamic growth of capital and assets. 2009 was the crucial moment in bank`s history: bank changed its owner. Owing to increase of equity capital by a national investor, bank overcame financial difficulties and has become a unique case in crisis management project in banking system of Ukraine. Today “Bank National Credit” is a universal bank with network of 43 branches in 20 regions of Ukraine, with innovative ideas in banking sector, with new brand and traditionally high level of service. Bank, growing fastly and having flexibility, efficiency and client-oriented approach among strength, is actively seeking for its niche in banking sector of Ukrainian market.

MTI Group is leading shoe retailer and distributor of electronics in Ukraine. The company operates in several business segments: distribution and retail trade of computer and consumer electronics, wholesale and retail trade of footwear and clothes, technical services and maintenance of computer, office and household equipment, systems’ integration, technical security systems. MTI has opened its own highly automated logistics complex with total area of 20,000 sq.m in October, 2009. MTI Group owns a number of retail chains under "Intertop”, “Plato”, “Kidditop” brands, chain of IT retail under “Protoria” name, number of luxury boutiques Ermenegildo Zegna and Bally, as well as several dozen mono-brand stores under leading shoe manufacturers’ name.

“European integration” Financial Group was created as a new milestone of development of several enterprises.
The components of the financial group are represented by enterprises of various sectors of the economy of Ukraine, such as engineering, coal industry, energy, medicine and investment sector.
The company operates in the economic field of Ukraine in two directions:
1.Forming and implementation of effective investment projects
2.The investment to number of business projects.

This approach determines the existence of unique all-round experience. We know what such conditions are necessary for an investor in Ukraine, as well as we know which objects may become the financially interested ones.
 
Mission of the company
 
Formation of high investment culture in Ukraine.
Increasing the attractiveness of Ukrainian business projects for  the world investors.
Creating of safe and reciprocal conditions for the integration into the global economy.

Today "European Integration" Financial Group has a number of successful investment projects. The one in the area of national medical complex is "Motherhood and Childhood." The one in the area of strategic development of municipal infrastructure is "Avtograd" (multistoried complex for motorists which includes parking lot, car service station, etc.) as well as "The First East-Ukrainian Center of International wholesale”.

JT International Company Ukraine CJSC is a local division of Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the world’s third largest tobacco company with a global market share of 11% and market capitalization of approximately USD 32 billion.  JTI’s headquarters are based in Geneva, Switzerland.  The company sells its products in 120 countries and employs 23,000 people around the world.
Our company was formed in 1999 when Japan Tobacco Inc. purchased the international tobacco operations of the US multinational R.J.Reynolds. In 2007, Gallaher, a FTSE 100 business, was acquired by Japan Tobacco for GBP 9.4 billion. At the time, this was the largest foreign acquisition by a Japanese company. We are a young industry player built on solid tobacco experience and rich heritage, dating back to the 18th century.
Over the last ten years, JTI invested over USD 130 million in Ukraine. Today, JTI Ukraine is the second largest tobacco company in the Ukrainian market, with a market share of 28.9%. The company manufactures and markets such cigarette brands as Camel, Glamour, LD, More and most popular brand in the CIS – Winston. Company’s factory in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, produces cigarettes for domestic market and for export to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
JTI Ukraine employs 2,000 people in 10 regional offices and at the factory. The company has been recognized as one of the five best employers in the country (according to The Correspondent magazine research, 2008).
According to the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, JTI Ukraine is the fourth largest tax-payer in the country.

Asset Management Company «NIKO» (www.amc.niko.ua) is the investment Company, the resident of Ukraine, a member of the international «NIKO» Group of companies. This Group of сompanies integrates the enterprises of different business directions, including auto business (import, distribution, and retail network), logistic services (including the full cycle of services: transport, storage and customs declaration services), retail, property management and engineering. It also offers full range of financial services - insurance, leasing, borrowing, investment and asset management. The main privilege in the Company’s activity is the development of global strategy and selection of the individual instruments for each Client: the formation of investment portfolio based on the Client’s requirements, management of an enterprises - investment objects, attraction of share and debt capital, preparation, maintenance and realization of M&A deals, the development of new investment projects and their implementation. The principal rules of provision of the complex of wealth management services for AMC «NIKO» along with the total confidentiality are flexibility and formation of financial model, which is the best for a Client.

Astrum Investment Management was established in 2008.
The Company’s main activities are investment banking, sales and trading, asset management, private equity.
Today, Astrum is one of the strongest teams working in the investment sphere in Ukraine, with a staff of more than 70 people, including investment bankers, traders, and research analysts.
Astrum ranked in first place for the category "Best fixed-income market research" according to the Cbonds Awards rating survey in April 2010 and in third place for the category "Best Sales on the bond market" according to the same ratings survey.
Maxim Blank, Astrum’s CEO, ranked among the TOP-5 in the "Top 100 Ukrainian managers" rating for the category “Investment Companies” in the Investgazeta magazine in April 2010.
During the period 2009-2010, Astrum has implemented investment projects that total more than USD 300 mln.
Astrum is an investment manager of the assets of Ukraine’s largest closed-end non-diversified corporate venture investment fund, with total assets of over USD 1 bln.

 
“Eco-Optima” ltd. Is engaged in the development and implementation of renewable, environmentally friendly sources of energy.
 The main development goal of the company is to create generating capacities using the energy of wind, water and the sun in the territory of Ukraine.
We are working at the elaboration and realization of the following two projects: “The energy of the Carpathian mountains”, the very project with the development of three wind energy plants (WEP) of total capacity 67,5 MWth. The second project “ The energy of Mountainous Rivers” is aimed at building a cascade of midget power plants of the rivers Stryi and Opir having, according to estimates, a total capacity of 20 MWth.
Our competitive advantages: high windpotential  power in the Carpathian mountains region, undeveloped water resources of the mountainous rivers, closeness to the EU border, the location on Burshtyn power island, power export possibility.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (Chamber) is among the most active and effective non-government, non-profit business organizations operating in Ukraine since 1992. One of the Chamber’s principal activities is to represent the foreign investment community as well as to facilitate the entrance of potential new investors into this market. The Chamber advocates on behalf of the Membership not only to the Ukrainian government, but also to all other governments, which are economic partners of Ukraine, on matters of trade, commerce, and economic reform. The Member organizations of the Chamber represent capital from over 50 nations across the globe including Europe, North America, Asia, Russia and Ukraine. Our Members are the largest strategic and institutional investors operating in Ukraine who have committed a majority of the foreign direct investment into this market and directly employ close to a million Ukrainians providing them with exposure to international best practices and the opportunity to develop into leading managers. Our Member companies bring international expertise and business knowledge to the marketplace and are among the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and strive to be good corporate citizens.

The European Business Association (EBA) is the premier organization of international business in Ukraine, which consolidates about 750 international and domestic companies. Establishment of the EBA in 1999 was initiated by the EC.
The EBA priorities are: reducing barriers to investment, supporting different instruments promoting economic integration with the EU and promoting the image of Ukraine as an investment destination and business partner.
The EBA Health Care Committee was established in 2000 as a platform for discussing health care system issues in response to interest on the part of EBA member companies engaged in research and development and manufacture of pharmaceutical products, medical equipment and devices, as well as those providing services in the health care sector. The EBA Health Care Committee represents the pharmaceutical industry and brings together over 40 pharmaceutical companies.

Website: www.usubc.org

The EU-Ukraine Business Council is an independent CEO-level forum for European and Ukrainian business leaders  dedicated to the promotion of trade and investment between the EU and Ukraine. Geadquartered in Brussels the Council assists companies to develop business opportunities, to  solve market access difficulties and overcome regulatory obstacles.

British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

ESG Communication group is  a leader in business-content production
ESG Communication group means:
18 TV programs which are broadcasted by 7 national TV companies
Communication services:
   - Development of PR strategies and implementation of PR programs
   - Creating positive images for companies, goods and brands.
   - Gaining and retaining the trust of investors, managing corporate reputation.
   - Cooperation with state institutions and public organizations.
   - crisis prevention and response PR
   - image-making for public persons
   - management of social projects
   - mass-media cooperation
Production of business content:
   - corporate video
   - presentation video
   - advertising materials (TV spots)
   - slide-shows and video catalogues
   - educational films
   - technological films, video instructions
   - video reports  
“Ukrainian business resource”  www.ubr.ua
www.esg.ua

FASTER THEN TELEVISION
MORE CONVENIENT THEN RADIO
MORE INTERESTING THEN THE PRESS
Operational and accessible resource of accurate information about business and economics: video from the scene, direct speech of Ukrainian business leaders, actual video-comments of the experts.
Ukrainian Business Resouce contains: - это:
• www.ubr.ua Internet portal on your computer;
• TV channel UBR on the AMOS satellite;
• PDA-version in your mobile;
• Radio news on FM.

Daily national business newspaper "Kommersant" is up-to-day and reliable information about major events in Ukraine and in the world. Political, financial, economical, cultural and sporting news. Every Friday "Kommersant" appears with a color supplement "Kommesant. Weekend", more than 40 times per year with supplements about major industry vehicles "Telecom", "Auto", "Finance", "Style", "Commercial estate", etc.     
http://www.kommersant.ua

The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, which belongs to the Interfax Information Service International Information Group, has been working on the Ukrainian market for political and economic information since 1992. Over the period, the agency has won a reputation for being the most reliable and qualified supplier of up-to-the-minute and objective information.
Among the agency's clients are the leading mass media, the biggest corporations, investment funds, banking and financial institutions, state organizations and structures.
News from Ukraine wired through the Interfax Agency's network reaches clients around the world. Currently, the agency offers over 40 economic, financial and political information products in three languages – Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
The agency constantly expands and updates its services by offering clients new products on various branches of industry and innovatively polishing its existing information services.
What is more, you can gain free-of-charge 10-day trial access to any chosen service by applying to Maksim Urakin at urakin@interfax.kiev.ua, or through www.interfax.com.ua, or by just telephoning (+38 044) 270 6574/75.

Kyiv Post – Independence. Community. Trust.
Kyiv Post - Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper was founded on Oct. 15, 1995. It has developed a sterling reputation for outstanding reporting, independent opinion and world-class journalism. 
The Kyiv Post plays a vital role as a primary source of independent news for the foreign community in Ukraine.  Over the years, the weekly newspaper has led the charge for a free press in Ukraine, and was the first to highlight the most resonant and significant Ukrainian events. 
The newspaper's circulation is 25 000 copies. It is produced by a team of Western and Ukrainian journalists.
For more information, please visit our site http://www.kyivpost.com/

bne is the first business publication dedicated to covering finance, economics, politics and business in the dynamic markets of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. Our team of veteran journalists collectively have more than 50 years of reporting on the 17 countries of New Europe. bne goes beyond the headlines to provide in-depth reporting and incisive commentary that explains the "why" behind the "what" of current events. Sign up for a free month’s trial — just go to http://www.businessneweurope.eu click on a story and register.

TT-TOTAL is an online, in-depth multiple source intelligence and information platform in both English and Russian, covering 30 countries from Central Europe to Central Asia, and 44 sectors from aerospace and defence to metals and mining. With detailed coverage of news on over 700 companies and nearly 400 business and political figures in the region, TT-TOTAL offers unrivalled speed and flexibility to its subscribers. The service is provided by Templeton Thorp, the definitive independent market specialist for all forms of intelligence, business and political information, and due diligence in the former Soviet Union and Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Website: www.tt-total.com

«Expert Ukraine» Magazine - it is high-quality and up to date analytical information, necessary for the successful business.
The «Expert Ukraine» magazine is being presented in Ukraine since the 2004.

The information group «Expert Ukraine» carries out it’s activity simultaneously in several directions:

• Publishing: «Expert Ukraine» magazine
• Rating agency
• National committee IPO 

Website: www.expert.ua

SeeNews (www.seenews.com) is a business and financial news provider covering the fast-growing companies and economies of Southeast Europe. SeeNews delivers decision-relevant business and investment news and intelligence for the investment banking, financial professionals, corporate executives and investors in emerging markets.

SeeNews combines the premium products real-time news and analysis by SeeNews –The Corporate Wire (http://www.wire.seenews.com) and investment research, database of company and industry reports by SeeNews – Research and Profiles (www.seenews.com/profiles).

For more information or to arrange a free trial, please e-mail SeeNews office at consulting@seenews.com or visit our website at www.seenews.com

ADPnews (http://www.adpnews.info/) is a global news newswire, carrying business and financial news and information from more than 70 countries worldwide. ADPnews provides high-quality, reliable and comprehensive coverage of business and industry news from around the world from established markets to emerging markets. ADPnews delivers dedicated services tailored for renewable energy  and shipping and logistics induatries ADPnews Renewables and ADPnews Shipping.

ADPnews wire caters for decision makers, executives, investors, analysts and researchers, bankers, traders, brokers, consultants, media, state institutions, governments, international organisations and all professionals who need high-quality information crucial for their investments decisions and daily operations.

For more information or to arrange a free trial, please e-mail ADPNews office at sales@adpnews.info or visit our website at www.adpbnews.info

Analytical Agency on real estate market «RWAY»

6, Suvorovskaya St., Moscow, Russia, 107023
Telephone/fax: +7 (495) 933-5503
E-mail: info@rway.ru
http://www.RWAY.ru
http://www.RWAY-Online.ru

The Information-analytical agency “RWAY” collects, processes and analyzes information about the real estate market of Moscow and Moscow area, belongs to independent organizations specialized in studying real estate market. Our agency has worked in the market since April 1995.
Agency issues the monthly information-analytical Bulletin about a real estate market. The Bulletin “RWAY” intended mostly for bank and investment structures, realtors’ agencies, developers’ and construction firms, insurance companies and all market researchers.
In the most of the market participants’ opinion, Information agency “RWAY” became the acknowledged leader of information provision for the professional real estate market participants.
worked in the market since April 1995. Agency issues the monthly information-analytical bulletin about a real estate market called «RWAY», which intended mostly for bank and investment structures, realtors’ agencies, developers’ and construction firms, insurance companies and all market researchers. Our Internet-projects – RWAY.ru & RWAY-Online.ru.

The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization established in 1991 to facilitate democratic development, encourage free market reform, and enhance human rights in Ukraine. The Foundation creates and sustains channels of communication between the United States and Ukraine for the purpose of Building Peace and Prosperity Through Shared Democratic Values. Please visit www.usukraine.org.

Business Ukraine is a monthly English-language current affairs magazine published in Kyiv by Open Borders Media. It is widely read throughout Ukraine's business, governmental and diplomatic communities and aims to provide independent analysis of Ukraine's politics and economy.

Ukraine Business Insight is the only UK-based English language publication covering Ukraine trade and investment, published in London and written by International and Ukraine-based writers and market analysts. The first edition of the magazine will be launched at the Adam Smith Ukrainian Investment Summit in London. To receive your free copy of the magazine please email info@ukrainebusinessinsight.com

PRAVOTODAY IN UA is a website covering important events in Ukrainian and worldwide Jurisprudence for everyone whose professional activity relates to law or who is going to connect his or her life with the legal profession in future.

PRORetail Company represents the retail industry websites www.proretail.info and specialized print edition PRORetail. These news channels are among the leading Ukrainian media and devoted to the development of retail, FMCG and logistics sector in Ukraine and abroad.
PRORetail Company - is your reliable information partner in the retail trade. With us - leaders of industry and international experience.

AllEquityFunds (AEF - http://www.allequityfunds.com/) – group of companies, its media business line includes:
- AllEquityFunds (mass media, №FS77-38766), owner of the largest private equity Web portal in the region – AllEquityFunds.com, the largest community of private equity funds and professionals in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS;
- the only English-language private equity journal in the CIS - Private Equity Russia&CIS Journal (PERCIS) (http://www.percis.ru/).

Global Islamic Finance Magazine (GIF) was firmly established in 2007 as the leading Islamic Finance title for bankers, business professionals, brokers, insurers, corporate, advisors and providers of financial services. It focuses on rapidly growing Islamic Banking, Finance, Economy and Business.
Global Islamic Finance magazine delivers news, reviews, research, comment and analysis to financial intermediaries, bankers, lenders, insurers, brokers, corporate and SME decision makers and supports these finance professionals with timely, relevant and accurate market intelligence and sources of business funding.

As a not-for-profit organisation (NGO), the British Ukrainian Society aims at strengthening relations at all levels between the United Kingdom and Ukraine; it encourages dialogue between the peoples of the two countries, and facilitates better understanding and co-operation between them.

Furthering such aims by:
• Encouraging, organising and sponsoring a range of social, economic, trade, cultural, political and media activities and exchanges;
• Preparing and disseminating key information;
• Promoting deeper bonds between resident, naturalised and British-born Ukrainians and the wider community;
• Enhancing the profile of the Ukrainian community and encouraging it to engage fully in British public life.