About Congress

Third Russian IPO Congress

The Third Russian IPO Congress will take place on 13 April 2007 in Moscow at Marriott Grand Hotel. Russian IPO Congress is the biggest Russian annual forum devoted to problems and prospectives of Russian companies initial public offerings.

Participants. The Third Russian IPO Congress will gather leading Russian and foreign experts involved in the initial public offering by the following issuers: representatives of Russian companies issuers, bank underwriters and organizers of initial public offerings, legal and consulting companies, rating agencies, investment companies, trade floors, corresponding government bodies. Leaders of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS), Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Central Bank of the Russian Federation, as well as top-managers of Russian and foreign stock exchanges, State Duma are traditionally among the participants of the Congress.

History of the Russian IPO Congress. The First Russian IPO Congress took place in April 2005 in Moscow. It was organized by the Institute for Stock Market and Management (Securities Institute). Large specialized forums devoted to solely initial public offerings were not held in Russia before. Due to great interest to IPO as an effective tool for business development of Russian companies, the Russian IPO Congress became annual and got the support of leading Self Regulatory Organizations (SROs) which bring together market participants. The Second Russian IPO Congress took place in April 2006 in Moscow and gathered even larger and more imposing audience and got a good coverage by Russian and foreign media. Today the Russian IPO Congress is the major forum devoted to IPO.

Sponsors of the Second Russian IPO Congress were represented by “RFcenter” Investment Company, “Arsagera” Asset Management Company, RTS Stock Exchange, “Vegas-Vex” law firm, IMAC Investment Planning Agency, and “Aurora Consulting” company.

Partners of the Second Russian IPO were represented by self regulatory organizations namely National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR), National Securities Market Association (NSMA), National League of Management (NLU), Association of Financial and Business Information Distributors (AFBID), co-organizer was represented by the Committee for Financial Markets and Credit Institutions of the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Information support to the Second IPO Congress was provided by strategic media partner Quote.ru. Among information partners were Interfax IA, RIA Novosti Russian news and information agency, RBC News IA, Cbonds IA, Finam IA, Finmarket IA, Prime-Tass IA, Rusbonds IA, Investfunds IA, “Expert” magazine, “D`” magazine, “Vestnik FSFR”, "Vestnik NAUFOR", “E-xecutive” managers community, Mergers.ru/Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia IA, Derivative Expert IA, Russian Institute of Directors, SRO ARMORF, and K2Kapital.

Contact information: Organizing committee – Phone/fax: +7 (495) 797-95-60, e-mail: ipo@ipocongress.ru