BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/07/2007

First Warsaw Stock Exchange IPO Partner From Belarus

Minsk-based CJSC Investment Company UNITER signed, on 19 July 2007, a co-operation agreement with the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the WSE IPO Partner Programme aimed to attract foreign companies to the Warsaw exchange. UNITER is the first WSE IPO Partner from Belarus and the 9th overall.

CJSC Investment Company UNITER from Belarus was founded in 2003. UNITER is one of the major, investment advisors in Belarus, offering a wide range of services including: financial intermediary and investment funds consulting, legal and accounting support as well as market analysis.

For more information on CJSC Investment Company UNITER, please visit http://en.uniter.by/about_us/

The WSE IPO Partner Programme, launched in the autumn of 2006, is designed to ensure the support of WSE Partners - foreign brokerage houses - for WSE promotion on foreign markets. The agreements with brokerage and investment service companies are designed to attract, in a direct and indirect manner, companies established outside of Poland.

Under the agreement, WSE Partners receive a special logo which they may use in approaching prospective issuers as well as the possibility to include information on their WSE-authorised partner status in their correspondence and documents.

The current list of WSE IPO Partners include: E-Volution Capital, Altera Finance, Sokrat Capital, Millennium Capital and Concorde Capital LLP of Ukraine, Suprema Securities and Hansabank of Estonia (operating in the Baltic states and Russia), as well as Wood & Company of the Czech Republic.

Source:

http://www.exchange-handbook.co.uk/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=68406