About Mergers & Acquisitions in Russia Journal

Mergers & Acquisitions in Russia Journal, a monthly analytical edition, is the premier professional magazine cov-ering main questions of M&A activity and passing of property in Russia. It is the only publication of its kind in the local market of business press.

The journal is an independent publishing project, not connected with political and financial organizations, which is aimed, first and foremost, for an objective and comprehensive reflection of activities and trends in the Russian market for corporate control.

The journal’s topics cover mergers and acquisitions, movement of capital, the acquisition of existing businesses, hostile takeovers and bankruptcy. The magazine offers reviews on numerous aspects of the corporate finance and investment in Russia and abroad.

Our mission is to be a source of reliable, objective information on the most actual problems of investment business and authorities-to-business relations; to cover various financial, legal and organizational technologies for transactions in the market for corporate control, avoiding any political assessments.

Our professional editorial team in collaboration with leading M&A experts secures the demand for high quality infor-mation and makes the journal take a unique niche among Russian business editions. Confidence and interest in our pub-lications, wide coverage of primary and secondary target audience guarantee the desired positive perception of advertis-ing materials, contained in the pages of the journal.

Feature sections and headings

Events, facts, commentaries

Events of the month: M&A market through the experts’ eyes, analyses of major events for the last month, M&A plans of companies, news of legislation, the M&A market summarized data.

In the world of M&A

This rubric presents analytical materials on processes of consolidation in different industries (industrial materials) on consolidation processes, interviews with public agent, managers of investment companies and investment banks, papers on making business by Russia businessmen in the Russian M&A-market and abroad. This rubric also presents periodic (half-year and year) detailed overviews of the corporate control market in Russia, a wide range of statistic data which the experts of the Journal gather and analyze.

Investment banking

This rubric appeared on the pages of the Journal in autumn 2005. Its materials open subjects related to investment banking in M&A and other industries. Its frame: financing M&A-transactions and strategic shares deals, IPOs, structuring transactions, cross-border operations, investment consulting, LBOs, etc.
Interviews with the leading Western and Russian investment bankers are planned for the rubric.

M&A technologies

Professionals and corporate finance experts share experience on effective M&A deal arrangement, due diligence, conflict technologies, defense against greenmail and hostile takeovers.

M&A-ratings

The Journal makes next ratings from may 2005:
— Industrial and geographical ratings of M&A-activity composed on the science-based model with attracting the leading M&A-experts;
— Rating of the financial consultants / investment banks / legal advisers;
— Rating of activity in the market of small and middle businesses.

The deal

Detailed professional description of prominent transactions, accompanied with commentaries of both parties, their advisors and experts’ opinions

What is there to buy in Russia

Regional surveys of M&A markets, analyses of authorities-to-business relations, possible promising purchases of re-gional companies

Corporate conflicts

Exclusive, comprehensive information on all corporate conflicts in Russia and new conflict technologies. Blitz-interview with both parties of a conflict; the full monthly statistics on conflicts (both started and completed) with expert’s assessment of possible outcome of a conflict

International review

Survey of M&A activity abroad, statistics and analyses of M&A markets

Companies and personalities

The cognitive rubric on the history of formation and development of the world business empires and leading invest-ment banks

Deal review

Monthly review of all M&A deals with Russian companies’ involvement in this country and abroad with deal value over US$5 m

Special supplement

Special quarterly supplement ‘M&A in Ukraine’