Summary of the Second annual international conference Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009

On April, 17th the Second annual international conference Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009 was held successfully in Kiev at Premier Palace hotel. 119 participants from Ukraine, USA, Russia, European Union and Arabic countries attended the Conference.

For the second time the Conference, organized by DAGDA LLC, becomes a meeting place where strategic and portfolio investors meet with companies attracting investment.

The Ukrainian Investor Meetings Conference demonstrated that in spite of the global crisis Ukrainian economy is still interesting for investors from different groups. Many investors treat current crisis in Ukraine as temporary and confirm their interest to invest into Ukraine in the long-term.

The biggest exchange holding of the world, NYSE Euronext, one of the Conference partners, keeps being interested in Ukrainian issuers. Co-operation with NYSE Euronext opens for Ukrainian issuers a wide opportunity to be listed at stock platforms in New-York, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Presentations of the Conference’s Partners. On April, 17th the Second annual international conference Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009 was held successfully in Kiev at Premier Palace hotel. 119 participants from Ukraine, USA, Russia, European Union and Arabic countries attended the Conference. Pls. find the results of the conference here.

Maksim Cherkasenko, Partner of Arzinger Law firm
Topic: «Business Restructuring as the Pre-condition for Successful Attraction of Investment and Raising the Value of the Business»

Inna Laska, Partner of Arzinger Law firm
Topic: «Legal Aspects of M&A, or How to Make a Deal Correctly: The Lessons for the Buyer and Seller»

Yuriy Kogut, Director General of the Consulting Company "SIDCON Ltd”
Topic: «Real Transactions During the Crisis: Risks of the two Sides of the Deal»

Lev Holubec, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Topic: «Creating Value in an M&A Deal"

Olexiy Sukhorukov, First Deputy Head of the Board of JSC “Ukrainian Exchange”
Topic: «The New Stage of Securities Market Development in Ukraine"

Aaron Goldstein, Deputy Head of International Listing, Head of Russia and CIS Business Development, NYSE Euronext
Topic: «Presentations of abilities for issuers of NYSE Euronext. Ability to attract capital for small companies on alternative platforms of NYSE Euronext»

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Monitoring of mass media covering the results of the Conference

IA Ukrainian News: 17.04.09 International Monetary Fund assumes GDP of Ukraine may lessen by 8% in 2009. Resident Representative of IMF in Ukraine Max Alier said this during the Second International conference “Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009”. "In October we expected the fall (of GDP in Ukraine) of about 3% in 2009. But now we think the fall will be about 8%", - he said. More

State Agency of Ukraine on Investment and Innovation about the Conference: 17.04.09. "The state’s role on investment market will become stronger". Director of Department on Institutional Development of Capital Market and Corporate Governance in State Agency of Ukraine on Investment and Innovations (SAUII) Rostislav Lukach participated in the Second International conference Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009 held in Kiev on April 17. More

Ukrainian Business Resource: 21.04.2009 First National Channel: "Business World" 21.04.2009 at 9.00, 12.00 and 15.00 Tonis Channel: "24 hours Business" 21.04.2009 at 20.50 and 23.00. "What frightens off foreign investors from cheap Ukrainian assets" Hrynya’s devaluation considerably cheapened Ukrainian assets. However, foreign investors are not in a hurry to buy our enterprises. Inna Laska, Partner of Arzinger Law firm and Maksim Cherkasenko, Partner of Arzinger Law firm comment the situation for UBR. More

Ukrainian Business Recourse: 27.04.2009. "There will not be Mergers and Acquisitions – assets are overestimated". Ukrainian business owners do not want to make lower prices of their companies. This year a number of M&A deals may cut by half. Inna Laska, Partner of Arzinger Law firm, and Dmitriy Tarabakin, Managing Director of an investment company, explain – Ukrainian assets are overestimated. More

Ukrainian Business Resource: 27.04.2009. "Flight of capital from Ukraine has stopped". Dmitriy Leonov, Head of Board of UAIB, calls investments, coming into Ukraine, “forced”. Mainly it is capital from Cyprus, which was taken out in due time. Ukraine will not see foreign money if it does not make better business conditions. Managing Director of an investment company Dmitriy Tarabakin and Partner of Arzinger Law firm Maksim Cherkasenko summarize. More

UBC: 10.050.2009 At the end of April, Head of Russia and CIS Business Development, NYSE Euronext, Aaron Goldstein participated in the internetional conference, which took place in Kiev, and told about advantages and abilities of NYSE Euronext. More

“Securities of Ukraine” newspaper: 14.05.2009 "Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009". Recently in Kiev, the Second International conference Ukrainian Investor Meetings 2009 was held. Its organizers were Ukrainian Society of Financial Analysts, DAGDA LLC and Ukrainian Association of Investment Business. Object of the Conference was analysis of basic ways for business financing during the crisis, problems of investment market in Ukraine and investment attracting mechanisms, specialty and perspectives of domestic M&A market development, and ways for Ukrainian issuers to appear at foreign stock platforms…
…Head of Board of UAIB Dmitriy Leonov noted in the current stage there is a certain trend on improvement of investment climate in Ukraine and slow escaping from the world economic and financial crisis… More

Interview with Aaron Goldstein, Deputy Head of International Listing, Head of Russia and CIS Business Development, NYSE Euronext