DAGDA LLC is company specializing in financial analytics and research. It was founded to serve the interests of investors, issuers and financial intermediaries in Ukraine. The experience of our founders plus our experts’ in-depth knowledge of the local market, combined with our financial specialization, have secured leading positions for us in the Ukrainian market right from the start. Among our clients are the largest stock exchanges of the European Union and the Asian-Pacific region, foreign investment banks and funds, respected audit, legal and consulting firms.
The seminar Investor Relations for companies attracting investment was held in Kiev
09-10-2008
The seminar “Investor Relations for companies attracting investment” was successfully held on October, 9 in the Boutique-Hotel Riviera on Podol, in Kiev. The seminar was organized by DAGDA LLC. Speakers from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arzinger & Partners, State Market Infrastructure Development Agency, Ukrainian Institute of Stock Market Development and “Investment Relations Solutions” agency participated in the seminar. Among the other participants were the leading specialists from the State Agency of Investment and Innovation, large-scale Ukrainian banks and financial & industrial groups and companies, about 40 people in total. Yuriy Prozorov, the General Director of DAGDA LLC and the president of USFA, opened the seminar. He outlined general tendencies of financial market and the world market of IR-services and indicated the practical problems of developing a dialogue with investors during the crisis.
The presentation by Olena Barbarova, the president of Investment Relations Solutions agency, ex-General director of Ukrainian Association of Investment Business, was devoted to the organization of investment relations and ensuring favourable perception of a company. Special attention was paid to marketing strategy of the IR-activity.
The speech of the Chief financial analyst of RA Expert-Rating Vitaliy Shapran was devoted to the practice of forming a modern system of Investor Relations in a company. The reporter spoke about IR-system building experience at big foreign companies, gave concrete recommendations how to organize correctly the investor relations system at domestic enterprises without sizeable costs.
The audience showed big interest to the presentation “Capturing Deal Value - How a good investor identifies and harnesses the value in a merger or acquisition transaction”, made by PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, Lev Holubec. He showed how an investor will consider and estimate the potential deal value; what the investor will do to prove his plans about making a value after investing his resources, and the influence of these decisions on Investor Relations in Ukrainian companies.
Maksym Cherkasenko, a partner of Arzinger&Partners, an international law firm, showed that the high quality of corporate governance is the pre-condition of successful attracting of investors. As a specialist in corporate law, he pointed out the criteria which are used for assessment of corporate management quality, gave concrete recommendations about construction of the effective model of corporate governance, and examples of advantages and disadvantages for companies which are demonstrating high standards of corporate governance.
The presentation by Evgeniy Petryk, a director of state agency SMIDA, showed the possibilities of using the existing information infrastructure for making adequate level of transparency of a company. The participants learnt what are the requirements of the Ukrainian law regarding disclosure, and how the companies can effectively use for their own benefit that informational minimum which is already disclosed by them.
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