Acted as an Adviser on Yandex, Mail.ru IPOs and Sibur Group and Rusal Bonds placements

ALRUD experts advised various companies on capital markets, including:

• Underwriters, preparing Mail.ru Group company IPO at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Among them there were - Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, a major Russian bank, Pacific Crest Securities. The amount of Mail.ru Group offering was US$1bn;
• Underwriters, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, conducting Yandex N.V. company IPO. This IPO has become the largest among internet-companies since the Google offering in 2004: Yandex N.V. attracted US$1,4bn at the NASDAQ exchange. Afterwards, the firm also advised underwriters on the SPO of Yandex N.V. shares;
• SIBUR Group on the matters of bond issuance, for investment in the project on constructing a modern high-technology integrated fuel and petrochemical refinery ‘West Siberian Petrochemical Refinery’.
• Chinese Investment Bank as part of the project on RUSAL Group’s foreign company bond issuance, on the matters related to securing issuer’s obligations, in relation to its payments under bonds and due-diligence for eight Russian companies, which are guarantors of the bonds.

ALRUD experts, working over the project, comprised Partners Vassily Rudomino, Alexander Zharskiy, Anton Dzhuplin, and also Associates Ekaterina Rogacheva and Ekaterina Boeva.