CFA Ukraine invitation to the "II Ukrainian investment forum: financing your growth"

Following the successful "I Ukrainian Investment Forum: Attracting Investments in Changing Times" last year with over 300 participants, CFA Ukraine is organizing "II Ukrainian Investment Forum: Financing Your Growth" on November 17, 2011 at the Premier Palace Hotel in Kyiv. The target audience is CxO level representatives of Top-300 Ukrainian real sector companies. The main topics to be covered are the macroeconomic situation and different sources of external financing available for Ukrainian companies: IPO, Debt and PE.

The Forum will facilitate discussion and analysis of the latest developments in raising capital and provide networking opportunities with the leaders of the investment industry in Ukraine. Executives of top Ukrainian companies and investment professionals who represent investors, private equity funds, investment and commercial banks, will exchange information about opportunities of attracting financing for Ukrainian companies in times of new economic challenges.

Ernst & Young Ukraine is the General Sponsor of the Forum. Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU), Warsaw Stock Exchange are among the Sponsors of the event. Partners of the Forum are Dragon Capital and PrJSC "KPNB "Rosinka". Ekonomika Publishing House (Investgazeta, Gazeta Delo) is the General media partner and Interfax-Ukraine is the General news partner. The media partners of the Forum are RBC-Ukraine, Investor Relations Agency, the Ukrainian Journal of Business Law, Building Media Group, The Ukrainian Times, Production Studio Ekonomicheskiy Vestnik and others. The Forum is supported by the European Business Association, Ukrainian Association of Investment Business, the Kyiv Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

The special guests of the Forum include:

• Archil Kekelia – First Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
• Rufat Alimardanov, CFA – Country Head in Ukraine and Belarus at IFC
• Martin Raiser – Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova at the World Bank
• Max Alier – Resident Representative in Ukraine at the International Monetary Fund
• Alexander Pavlov – Senior Banker, Head of Financial Institutions in Ukraine at EBRD
• Mark Magaletsky – Senior Banker, Head of Infrastructure and Energy in Ukraine at EBRD
• Anatoliy Amelin – Corporate Relations Director at Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine
• Steven Fisher – Chairman of the Board at Citibank Ukraine
• Dominique Menu – Head of the Representative Office in Ukraine at BNP Paribas Group
• John Patton – Head of Origination Russia/CIS at Deutsche Bank
• Oleg Ustenko – Senior Economist at Sigma Bleyzer Ukraine
• Natalie Jaresko – Founding Partner and CEO at Horizon Capital
• Tamás Nagy – Managing Director for Ukraine at Advent International Global Private Equity
• Gijs Jeuken – CEO at Fidem Life
• Valeria Gontareva – CEO at Investment Capital Ukraine
• Igor Petrashko – Director of Investment Banking at Troika Dialog Ukraine

Registration is open till November 14, 2011 inclusive. For online registration, please follow the link: http://cut.ms/bmXL

For additional information about the Forum, please contact Anastasia Nazarenko, Chair of CFA Ukraine Public Awareness Committee (tel.: +38 050 977 08 92, info@cfaukraine.org), or visit www.uif.com.ua