May 1, 2012 | News
KPMG via East-West Digital News 30 April 2012 by Vyacheslav Jaravine 2011 was a rather disappointing year for M&A both globally and in Russia. Compared to the 6% decline in the value of global M&A deals, Russia’s M&A market experienced an even stronger...
Apr 28, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 28 April 2012 Freight firm Globaltrans Investment is buying the railcar unit of iron-ore miner Metalloinvest for $540 million, boosting its fleet to about 60,000 units, it said Friday, as it forecast more consolidation for the sector. As part of the deal,...
Apr 27, 2012 | News
East West Digital News 27 April 2012 Earlier this week, the Ukrainian-Russian-American startup Jelastic, which offers a cloud-based hosting platform for Java application developers, announced it has secured an investment of $2 million from Almaz Capital Partners and...
Apr 27, 2012 | News
Reuters 27 April 2012 Canada’s Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer, sold its 20.37 percent stake in Russia’s Highland Gold to institutional investors for £79.5 million ($128 million), Highland said Thursday. Barrick sold 66,235,264...
Apr 25, 2012 | News
Marchmont Innovation News 25 April 2012 Anatoly Chubais, the head of state-owned nanotechnological company RUSNANO, believes that Nizhny Novgorod region could create engineering companies to carry out innovative projects, VOLGA-Lentaregion reports. “Nizhny Novgorod...
Apr 25, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 25 April 2012 Fast Lane Ventures, a backer of Russian online start-up firms, has raised $18 million from investors led by VTB Capital, signaling rising investor appetite for Russia’s Internet market. The cash will be used to develop FLV’s...
