MOSCOW: The Forum is the biggest Russian annual event designed to address IPO challenges and prospects for Russian companies which will be held on September 23, 2010 at Valdaysky Conference Hall, Marriott Moscow Tverskaya Hotel.

With Russian IPO market increasing, the Forum will continue the dialogue about issues of attracting capital in Russia at a drastically new level. The key difference of this year's Forum is discussing totally new experience in IPO organizing. Forum participants will have the opportunity to get information about further IPO market development from regulators, stock exchanges (both Russian and foreign ones), financial consultants and issuers themselves. The Forum will also give an overview of new financial products and instruments offered to Russian issuers. Special attention will be paid to new services designed to encourage IPOs by mid-caps.

IPO&SPO-2010 Forum speakers and participants are professionals involved in IPO and SPO processes - representatives of the Federal Financial Markets Service, Bank of Russia, Russian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development, Federal Antimonopoly Service, as well as issuers, bank underwriters, legal and consulting companies, rating agencies, investment companies, and, most importantly, a number of stock exchanges - both Russian and foreign ones.

The organizer of the Forum is the Institute for Development of Financial Markets.

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Please find more information on the Forum's official website http://www.ipoandspo.ru/en/ or contact Anastasia Pogrebitskaya for all questions (pogrebitskaya@irfr.ru /+7(495)911-67-00 (ext. 112)).