Press release

Date 25 May 2015

Contact person Aysel Suleymanova, PwC Pages 1

PwC Azerbaijan and Stock Exchange organized a joint workshop on “Raising public equity and debt capital and IPOs”.

PwC Azerbaijan and Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) within the “Listing Advisory Program” (LAP) hold a Joint workshop on “Raising public equity and debt capital and IPOs” for companies potentially interested in equity market financing.

The Managing Partner of PwC Azerbaijan, Movlan Pashayev and the Chairman of Baku Stock Exchange, Fariz Azizov emphasized the importance of this type of sessions for potentially interested companies and outlined plans for hosting joint sessions in the future.

The Partner and Capital Market Leader, PwC Russia, CIS, Rustem Teregulov provided participants with detailed information on IPO, the process of issuing of shares and bonds, preparation for IPO, preparation of the prospectus, corporate governance and financial reporting.

Mr. Neil McKain, Head of the Resident Office, EBRD Azerbaijan informed the participants on “Issuance of bonds in local currency in emerging markets", within the workshop framework. During the seminar, Head of Business Development at BSE, Abdulla Isayev made a detailed presentation on "Listing at Baku Stock Exchange" and Head of Trade Department at BSE, Talat Karayev spoke about "The infrastructure of capital markets within the new legal framework".

The workshop was attended by 30 elected representatives of local companies, LAP partner companies, brokerage firms and other guests. During the event, participants were presented with brochures regarding the promotion of capital market financing, service catalog and other educational printouts.

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