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Market Matters : Markets Drop by 2% As Holidays Approach
Russian stocks fell by an average of more than 2 percent last week, underlining investors' weariness ahead of the Easter break.
Russia Investment Roadshow : Scenes From Last Year's Forum
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Issue 3883 | 15 Apr 2008
More Opportunities for Russian Issuers in 2008 By Elena Khisamova The positive dynamic of Russian ECM volumes over the past several years is a clear sign that the local market has entered a new phase of its development and become a stable source of long-term capital. |
How to Sell the Future to Investors: The Role of Investor Relations Before, During and After the IPO By John Rose Investor relations should ideally begin years before a company registers to float its shares on a stock exchange. Unfortunately, companies often make little to no investment in investor relations until just before or even after the IPO -- sometimes ignoring shareholders, hiding from bankers and spending as little time as possible with fund managers and institutional investors. |
IPO Trends in Russia By Marchello Gelashvili and Galina Shilina Despite the global credit crunch, 2007 was still a record-breaking year for IPOs, with 30 listings by CIS and Russian domiciled companies generating $34 billion. Investors continued to focus on large deals, with a median deal size of $614.2 million. |
DD for IPO By A.S. Yermolenko The first of the abbreviations used in this headline was established in business vocabulary long ago. The procedure it denotes is popular in economic practice. The very phrase ""due diligence"" -- literally, ""due care"" or ""due attention"" -- is used to denote the overall audit of company activity, as well as separate audits of other components of business: legal, tax, financial, construction or corporate due diligence. In most cases, such an audit is conducted by the investor at the purchase of someone's business or when making a decision regarding participation in someone's business. |
Russian IPO/SPO Market -- Key Trends and Outlook By Igor Katusha Negative trends in the international financial markets and fear of global recession caused by events in the U.S. mortgage credit market has created negative conditions for placements made in 2007. Despite complex market conditions, 2007 saw a record Russian IPOs and SPOs. The total volume of IPOs and SPOs by 28 Russian companies reached $31 billion, including 22 IPOs totaling $21 billion, twice as much as in 2006. |
IPOs in Russia: Where and How Are They Offered? By Vladislav Kvetinsky Since 2003, the subject of IPOs has become unusually popular among business media, which have sometimes formed euphoric notions among Russian business managers and owners about this method of capital procurement, as if it is a magic wand capable making a business and its owners rich in a moment. |
Issue 3863 | 18 Mar 2008
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The Impact of EU Competition Law on Russian Business By Joseph Hainz and Jorg Karenfort The growing economic interaction between Russia and the European Union effectuates the increasing importance of EU competition law for Russian companies. |
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Transfer-Pricing Legislation -- When Will It Be Amended? By Henrik Hansen Transfer-pricing reform has been on the government's agenda for the past few years, and a number of bills have been presented to the public. One even made it to the State Duma. Despite this, no amendments have yet been made to the existing rules in Articles 20 and 40 of the Tax Code. |
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Due Diligence of Commercial Real Estate Objects in Russia By Sergey Markov Before acquiring any asset, an investor often needs to define the legal risks that such a transaction can cause. |
Issue 3804 | 11 Dec 2007
Thin Cap -- Still an Issue? By co-head of Russian tax practice, Partner and Evgeny Timofeev / Salans As most countries do, Russia protects its right to tax in a variety of ways. One of them is designed to fight erosion of the tax base of Russian entities by paying excessive amounts of interest to related parties. |
Taxation of International Transactions: Why Foreigners Keep Overpaying VAT in Russia By Anton Zykov, head of law practice, Attorney-at-law and Irma Nemshevich / HLB Vneshaudit As a general rule, sales of goods, works and services by Russian companies are subject to value-added tax. However, some cross-border services are exempt from VAT. |
Tax Blackmail Through the Use of the Taxpayer's Personal Account Card By Head of Group of Tax Dispute and Galina Akchurina / FBK-Legal All companies are registered with the tax authorities by means of special cards called taxpayer's personal account cards that keep payment records. They usually contain information about the taxpayer's settlements with the budget and the current tax due. |
Issue 3799 | 4 Dec 2007
Innovations in Land Law on Acquisition of Rights to State and Municipal Land By Inga Shakhnazarova, / Associate, Salans On Oct. 30, 2007, the new Federal Law No. 212-FZ came into force amending the Federal Law on the Introduction of the Land Code of the Russian Federation, or Introduction Law, and the RF Land Code in regard of the procedure for acquiring rights to state and municipal land. |
The Parity of Cadastral and Market Values of Land Plots in Government Cadastral Appraisals By Elena Kovalchuk / Head of the department of legal consulting on commercial use of lands, Estimating the value of assets is a worry for owners of practically every company. But the price valuation of land -- an important and fundamental resource -- is often the very foundation or platform for building a business. |
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