Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russian Law Online 14 Mar 2012 Baker & McKenzie advised RUSNANO on an investment agreement with Domain Associates LLC, a US venture capital firm specializing in leading-edge life sciences technologies. The investment agreement provides a framework for a...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
Russia Beyond the Headlines 23 Mar 2012 The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkTech) plans to establish Russia’s biggest endowment fund, projected at 16.5 billion rubles ($560 million) in 2012 alone. The country’s biggest state-controlled companies will...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
VTB is in negotiations to buy out the 40 percent of Ingosstrakh held by Czech investor Petr Kelner’s PPF private-equity firm and Italian insurance giant Generali, according to a source close to one of the Russian insurance company’s shareholders. This was...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 28 Mar 2012 Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund that began investing outside Russia last fall, is providing $1.5 million in funding to Capptain, a French startup that has developed a SaaS platform for mobile analytics and marketing. Capptain’s...
Mar 27, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 26 Mar 2012 Russia’s second fastest-growing regional innovation economy in 2011 according to business monitor RBC Daily, is stepping up efforts to assert itself as one of the country’s most business-friendly ecosystems. Less than three years...
Mar 26, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 26 Mar 2012 The Russian mergers and acquisition market posted a drop last year against a global decline in M&A activity, while foreign purchases of Russian assets stayed almost the same. Overall Russian M&A activity totaled $71.1 billion in 2011,...
