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White & Case is a leading global law firm with approximately 2,200 lawyers across 25 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, White & Case founded its London office in 1971 and its Moscow office in 1991. Our capital markets team advises investment banks, issuers and shareholders on the full range of equity and equity-linked instruments, including IPOs, follow-on and secondary offerings, as well as convertible and exchangeable bonds. We advise on listings of shares and equity related securities on stock exchanges in Russia, as well as for Russian companies seeking international listings.

We were ranked the No.1 Legal Adviser for ECM and Equity Linked Capital Markets in Russia, with a 57.8 percent share of the Russian ECM market in 2014 by Bloomberg. Throughout the past year, the firm has continued to advise on the majority of the biggest, most complex, and newsworthy IPO and SPO deals for Russian companies – further solidifying the firm’s reputation for consistent high-quality advice. Highlight work includes Moscow Exchange follow-on, QIWI follow-on, Ruspetro capital and financial restructuring and Lenta IPO. These mandates have an aggregate value of more than US$2 billion. The firm’s Moscow, London and New York capital markets teams regularly work together in a seamlessly integrated manner, to provide Russian, English and US law capabilities and comprehensively meet all the demands of complex international securities transactions. We have also been ranked No.2 for EMEA equity and equity linked category (issuer and manager side) by Thomson Reuters.

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London Stock Exchange Conference
8-9 July 2010, London

 

London Stock Exchange Conference
6-7 July 2011, London

 

LSEG Russia & CIS Conference 
5 June 2014, Lotte Hotel, Moscow

 

LSEG  Russia & CIS Conference
5-6 June 2013, Lotte Hotel, Moscow

 

LSEG  Russia & CIS Conference
2 July 2012, National Hotel, Moscow

London Stock Exchange Group

 
London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is a diversified international market infrastructure and capital markets business sitting at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.

The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe’s leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, a pan-European equities MTF. It is also home to one of the world’s leading growth markets for SMEs, AIM. Through its platforms, the Group offers international business and investors unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.

Post trade and risk management services are a significant part of the Group’s business operations. In addition to majority ownership of multi-asset global CCP operator, LCH.Clearnet Group, LSEG operates CC&G, the Italian clearing house; Monte Titoli, the T2S-ready European settlement business; and globeSettle, the Group’s newly established CSD based in Luxembourg.

The Group is a global leader in indexing and analytic solutions. FTSE and Russell Indexes offer thousands of indices that measure and benchmark markets around the world. The Group also provides customers with an extensive range of real time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, Proquote and RNS.

Following the acquisition of Russell Investments, LSEG conducted a comprehensive review of the investment management business to analyse its strategic fit with the Group. This was concluded in February 2015, and LSEG is now exploring a sale of the business in its entirety.

London Stock Exchange Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software for customers around the world. In addition to the Group’s own markets, over 35 other organisations and exchanges use the Group’s MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology.

Headquartered in London, with significant operations in North America, Italy, France and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 4,700 people.

Further information on London Stock Exchange Group can be found at www.lseg.com

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Moscow Marriott Grand Hotel

26/1 Tverskaya Street  Moscow  125009  Russian Federation

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Doron Loewinger

Partner
White & Case

Doron Loewinger is a US qualified partner in the Firm's Capital Markets group in London. He has extensive experience advising on debt and equity capital markets transactions, and on liability management transactions, with a primary focus on developing and emerging markets. He is also the Chairman of the firm's London US Securities Policy Committee, and as such is responsible for the implementations of policies and procedures aimed to ensure the quality and consistency of US securities law related advice. Doron joined White & Case in September 2007 from a leading US law firm, having practiced seven years in their New York office and one year in their Singapore office. Prior to that, he practiced in one of Israel's leading law firms for four years.

Doron has more that 15 years of experience representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide range of US and cross-border private and public capital markets transactions, including registered and unregistered offerings of equity, senior and high-yield debt and hybrid securities.

He also has extensive experience representing both issuers and managers in a wide range of liability management transaction, including complex cross-border tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and other debt and equity restructurings.

Nicolas Bertrand

Head of Equities and Derivatives Markets
London Stock Exchange Group

Nicolas Bertrand is Head of Equity and Derivatives Markets for London Stock Exchange Group. Appointed in 2010, Nicolas is responsible for UK and Italian equity markets and the Group’s derivatives markets.
Nicolas joined Borsa Italiana in November 1999 and has been responsible for IDEM, the Italian Derivatives Market of Borsa Italiana, since January 2004. In July 2009, Nicolas was appointed head of the newly created “Equity Markets and IDEM” division within the London Stock Exchange Group, which combined the equity cash and derivatives markets, overseeing the Italian and UK equity cash markets and IDEM. He is also a board member of FTSE,Turquoise and Borsa Italiana.

Prior to joining the Exchange, Nicolas worked for Citibank and developed his expertise trading on various markets and asset classes. Nicolas graduated in econometrics and holds a postgraduate degree in finance (DESS 203) from Université Paris IX-Dauphine in Paris.

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Ayuna Nechaeva

Senior Manager – Emerging Markets, Equity Primary Markets
London Stock Exchange Group

Ayuna Nechaeva is responsible for London Stock Exchange’s business development activities in CIS and Asia-Pacific. Ayuna advises corporates in these regions on the process of listing on the London Stock Exchange, equity capital raising, IPO preparation and corporate governance. Ayuna also manages and develops the 100+ network of existing listed clients.

Prior to joining LSEG, Ayuna worked at BBC Monitoring in Moscow and the UK.

Ayuna Nechaeva holds a Master’s in International Business from Grenoble Graduate School of Business as well as MA in Linguistics & Intercultural Communications from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Gavin Sullivan

Senior Advisor, Primary Markets
London Stock Exchange Group

Gavin Sullivan is a Senior Advisor, Primary Markets, London Stock Exchange Group.
In this role, Ms. Sullivan is involved in a broad range of business issues, ensuring that the Group is investing its resources appropriately, capturing new opportunities, and building and marketing its brand effectively as LSEG grows its global footprint. Prior to this role, Ms. Sullivan spent a year as Acting Group Communications Director at LSEG, managing Executive, Corporate & Financial Communications, as well Group Marketing, Branding, and Events.

Prior to joining LSEG in 2013, Ms. Sullivan held a variety of senior roles at Credit Suisse over fourteen years from 1998-2012. Most recently, she was a Managing Director and Acting Global Co-Head of Branding & Communications, responsible for the global investment banking and asset management divisions, as well as the Americas and EMEA regions. She also served as Head of Communications for the EMEA region for eight years. She began her professional career in Russia, where she was seconded as an Advisor to the Russian Ministry of Privatization to manage USAID-funded public education programs in support of the mass privatization program.
Ms. Sullivan holds an M.A. in Russian Regional Studies from Harvard University and a B.A in Political Science and Soviet Studies with honors from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Brian Schwieger

Head of Equity Trading
London Stock Exchange Group

Brian Schwieger joined the London Stock Exchange Group in August 2013 as the Head of Equity markets for the London Stock Exchange. Reporting into the Capital Markets group, he is responsible for all aspects of the secondary markets business for equities, including Business and Product development and Marketing. As a member of the Equities and Derivatives Management Committee, Brian is also involved with the Exchange’s strategy across Turquoise and Derivatives markets.

Brian joined the LSE from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was a Managing Director and Head of European Electronic Sales and Consulting at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He joined Merrill Lynch in 2005 as Head of Electronic Salestrading, before moving on to Head of Algorithmic Trading products, which included the introduction of Smart Order Routing in late 2007. In his last assignment, Brian was also responsible for the Research Sales and Salestrading for BAML's smaller and mid sized accounts, making good use of electronic communication, distribution and trading.

Immediately before joining Merrill Lynch, Brian was at Morgan Stanley where he started as a UK trader and market maker, progressing to European portfolio trading and finally sales and marketing for their Algorithmic Trading platform.

Brian's prior experience was in trading in Propane, Butane and oil and gas futures, including the introduction of the first Propane and Butane CFD
contracts in Europe. He has a BSc (Econ) from London School of Economics and a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

Darina Lozovsky

Partner
White & Case

Dmitry Lapshin

Partner
White & Case

Yury Mandzhiev

Moscow Representative
BNY Mellon

Mike Macfarlane

Partner
Instinctif Partners

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26/1 Tverskaya Street, Moscow

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If you would like to register, please contact Ayuna Nechaeva Russia@lseg.com

Instinctif Partners is an international consultancy with 22 offices in 13 countries including Moscow and London; with over 400 employees serving more than 750 clients worldwide . We combine strategic and creative thinking to help our clients to reach, engage and influence their global stakeholders; connecting financial communications with the very best in creativity, storytelling and digital capability.

Instinctif Partners is highly experienced in supporting the transactions of leading public and private companies in Russia and other CIS countries, covering a wide range of sectors including natural resources, industrials, financial services, retail and telecommunications.  Our award-winning Film & Motion practice specialises in the production of investor films for companies preparing for an IPO or seeking to raise the profile of an investment story amongst global investors; establishing an international standard of best-practice for the use of investor films before, during and after capital raising.