Raising Capital — New Opportunities for Regional Companies

Today, the «Finances» Group is a niche organization which unites more than 15 audit and consulting companies in 10 regions of Russia. The «Finances» Group includes the Parent Company of «Finances М», as well as divisions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Samara, Voronezh. The network of divisions created by the company enables closer cooperation with heads of the regions of the Russian Federation.

The client base of the «Finances» Group is made up of more than 7000 enterprises and organizations with various forms of ownership. Amongst them is the firm Holding RAO «UES of Russia», the divisions OJSC «Gazprom», OJSC AK «Transneft», GUP MO «Mostransavto», FSUE «Perm Airlines», OJSC «Tuapse Commercial Sea Port», OJSC «Tambov Factory «Retrud», OJSC «Perm Motor Factory», OJSC «Stoylensky GOK», OJSC «KMAruda», and many others.

In 2006 the «Finances» Group joined «Nexia International», which is among the ten leading auditor networks in the world, as its representative in Russia. The «Finances» Group can now offer its clients auditing at an international level, whilst taking into account their regional differences. Audit reports prepared by specialists of the «Finances» Group are recognized by investors and other users of records in all countries where there are divisions of «Nexia International».

The «Finances» Group is a close-knit team including more than 250 highly qualified specialists, who have professional considerable work experience and professional knowledge of document management tools. The basic task of the company's employees is to help the client to create an electronic and paper document flow system which will guarantee confidence in their business accounting and quality of management.

The «Finances» Group is awarded with an ISO 9001: 2008 compliance certificate from TUV, a world certification agency. It is confirmed by the certificate that the Group's management system is oriented to the maximum satisfaction of clients needs when providing its main services.

The core activities of the «Finances» Group. Among them are:
— Auditing business and tax accounting according to the current Russian norms in order to comply with the existing requirements of the country
— Maintaining and auditing individual and consolidated financial statements according to the international system of the IFRS
— Auditing financial and economic operations and Financial Due Diligence?
— Introducing and certifying the systems of ISO 9000 quality control, ISO 14 000 ecology control, OHSAS 18 000 management of health protection and personnel safety and MSS series integrated management systems
— Installing specialist systems for accountant and tax reporting purposes based on 1С software and proprietary software
— Providing administrative, credit and investment consulting.

Each member firm provides services in a particular geographic area and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country or countries in which it operates. DTT helps coordinate the activities of the member firms but does not itself provide services to clients. DTT and the member firms are separate and distinct legal entities, which cannot obligate the other entities. DTT and each DTT member firm are only liable for their own acts or omissions, and not those of each other. Each DTT Member Firm is structured differently in accordance with national laws, regulations, customary practice and other factors, and may secure the provision of professional services in their territories through subsidiaries, affiliates and/or other entities.

Deloitte in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Deloitte is one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through over 3 500 people in 14 offices across 9 countries of the region. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, it is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel.

Our goal and strategy is to build the premier national professional services firm in the CIS, to provide a full range of services to our international clients, and to develop a dynamic practice to serve national clients. We are one of the largest international professional practices in the CIS, where local and expatriate professionals work closely together as mixed teams, to ensure the right balance of skills and provide premium client service.

The CIS is evolving rapidly and this dictates that we cannot be bound by traditional approaches. We are constantly tailoring our services to fit this unique market and to match the needs of our clients, often being called upon to develop new solutions to current issues. Our success can be measured in the response of the market, making us the fastest-growing professional services firm in the CIS.

The agency has a broad experience in supporting capital markets transactions/ M&A deals. Shared Value has successfully supported a number of Russian and international companies in their IPOs and listings on London and New York stock exchanges, and also advises a wide range of clients on the development and implementation of ongoing corporate communications programmes. Shared Value has a team of multi-lingual specialists drawn from careers in investment banking, asset management, equity research and sales, media and PR.