SPIBA Members' and Partners' News 2011

This program has been developed for specialists in management accounting, financial managers and accountants, managers who want to acquire skills necessary for making management decisions and become specialists certified by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

You can see more detailed information in the attached file.

BusinessLink Training invites you to join the open program «The AQAL-way in business training: integral andragogics » for managers or specialists of  personnel reserve.

Trainer: Tatyana Soltitskaya, business trainer, organization development consultant, MBA teacher in Top management school of Saint-Petersburg Univercity

Date and time: 29th of February 2012, 10.00-18.00

Price: 9 800 roubles, VAT is not  added to abovementioned price.

For SPIBA members is valid 10% discount, this proposal can’t be summarized with other company’s discounts.

For further information, please see or contact our consultants:

Tel. 7 (812) 336 56 37

       7 (961) 805 23 13

e-mail: bl-t@bl-t.ru

Intercomp Global Services has for the second time successfully passed SSAE16 audit.
On 15 February 2012 Intercomp Global Services, the largest business process outsourcing provider, announced the receipt of the Report on the successful passing SSAE16 type II audit (former SAS70) in 2011. The Audit Report of the Company AuditOne Inc. confirms the level of services provided by Intercomp Global Services in Russia complies with the recognized international standards. 

You can see more detailed information in attached file.

Professor Valery S. Katkalo, Vice-Rector, St. Petersburg University & Dean, Graduate School of Management has been elected Chairman of the EPAS Accreditation Board

At the EFMD Board Meeting (European Foundation for Management Development, www.efmd.org) that took place on 2 February 2012 professor Valery S. Katkalo, Vice-Rector, St. Petersburg University & Dean, Graduate School of Management has been elected Chairman of the EPAS Accreditation Board (European Program Accreditation System, http://efmd.org/accreditation-main/epas).

EPAS is one of the most prestigious international programme accreditation systems in the field of management. It was introduced by EFMD in 2005 and currently 61 programmes from 47 business schools, including 5 from Russia, hold EPAS accreditation title.

At the moment GSOM SPbU is the only Russian business school to hold unconditional EPAS accreditation (Bachelor of Management Programme) for a maximum period of 5 years, and to pass eligibility stage of the institutional accreditation system operated by EFMD – EQUIS. GSOM SPbU holds AMBA accreditation for MBA programmes and is the only representative from Russia in such global alliances of leading business schools and companies as CEMS, PIM, GBSN and EABiS. 

28.02-02.03. Elisa holds meetings: "Discussion with the expert:
Virtual Conferences from the simple to the complex".

You can see more detailed information in Russian by clicking here.

BusinessLink Training invites you to join the open program «Aiming and performance management» for managers at starting level or specialists of  personnel reserve.

Trainers:   Dmitry Khokhlov, business trainer, consultant

Lyudmila Gavrilova, General director of «BusinessLink Training», business trainer         

Date and time: 18th of February 2012, 10.00-18.30

Price: 9 800 roubles, VAT is not  added to abovementioned price.

For SPIBA members is valid 10% discount, this proposal can’t be summarized with other company’s discounts.

For further information, please see or contact our consultants:

Tel. 7 (812) 336 56 37, 7 (961) 805 23 13, e-mail: bl-t@bl-t.ru

Florian Schneider has been elected the Managing Partner of Salans’ Moscow office. He is also the head of Salans Global Retail Practice Group. 
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Victor Naumov has been appointed managing partner of the St. Petersburg office of Salans. He remains head of Salans’ Russian IP/IT/Telecommunications Practice.

Victor specialises in intellectual property protection and management of intangible assets; Internet regulation and e-commerce; data security; regulation of the mass media and telecommunications. He is included in the ratings of top intellectual property and information technology lawyers published by Legal500 and Chambers. 

Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference systems on 31th January and 1st February. You can see detailed information here.

Dear colleagues!

The weekly English-language newspaper The St. Petersburg Times in collaboration with Recruitment Company Barona invite HR-directors to a Business – Lyceum.

Want to be more creative at work? What are the challenges you see? An interesting talk about creativity in a working environment will take place at the St. Petersburg Lyceum on December 19.

Lector: Mikhail Morozov, Master in Communication Studies (University of Northern Iowa, USA)

WHEN:  December, 19 17:30 – registration and cocktails, the lecture will be held from 18 pm to 19:30 pm

WHERE: St. Petersburg, Holiday Inn St. Petersburg - Moskovskye Vorota, Stenberg Room

FREE entrance for HR-directors (please note that pre-registration is required)

For more information, check our website www.sptimes-conf.ru

To register, contact the Conference Department at conference@sptimes.ru,

+7 (812) 325 60 80, Contact person: Tatiana Natarova.

The lecture will be given in Russian.

New season of the Businessmen Anonymous Club starts soon. During the weekly BA meetings, you can share your experiences; discuss your success and problems with like-minded people, and learn about effective management and motivation methods. Come to the presentation of Businessmen Anomymous on December 21 to learn more!

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We all spend most of our time at work and in most cases there’s nothing we can do about it, that’s why everyone should strive to make this time really agreeable. Our free Job Affair workshop on December 22 is dedicated to the techniques allowing you to really enjoy your job.

This program has been developed for specialists in management accounting, financial managers and accountants, managers who want to acquire skills necessary for making management decisions and become specialists certified by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Presentations will be held in St.Petersburg

13 December 2011, 26 January, 16 February, 6 March 2012.

Place: St.-Petersburg, Grivtsova lane, 4, office PwC.

Start at 19:00

During the presentation you will have a chance to win 50% discount for the course.

To participate please fill in the registration form and send it via e-mail larisa.shamina@ru.pwc.com.

Learn more about the diploma: http://www.pwc.ru/ru/training/CIMA-diploma.jhtml

Read more about the program

Intercomp Global Services, a leading F&A and HR outsourcing provider, and Business Development Center of Northwestern division of  Sberbank of Russia  organize a seminar: “Make a vacation schedule for a new year” on December 9, 2011.

The seminar is intended for HR specialists who want to prepare vacation schedule for 2012 correctly. We would like to remind you the schedule must be prepared in each company by December 19, 2012.

The main theme of the seminar: how to make a vacation schedule, what points should be considered while making a schedule, what responsibility HR specialist bears and what procedure must be observed when an employee work at the weekend.

Speaker:   Svetlana Domkina , manager of HR Administration department of Intercomp Global Services

Date and time: December 9, 2011, 10 a.m.  -12 a.m.

Venue: Sberbank office, 30 bld. 1, Staro-Petergofsky pr., St. Petersburg

Conditions of participation: free of charge . The number of participants is limited! Confirmation of registration is needed.

Registration: Please send the name, position, company, telephone of participants by e-mail Olga.Kapralova@intercompglobal.com

For additional information please call to Intercomp Global Services by tel.:740-18-60, ext. 4136 and 4114.

On the eve of New Year we invite you to participate in the charity event and to purchase Christmas gifts for children living in the St. Petersburg State Budget-funded Agency "Center of social assistance to families and children of the Kalinin district of St. Petersburg", located at ul. Luzhskaya, 10, lit. A. Details in Russian here

On December 7, 2011 the Leningrad Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a round table:

“Topical questions  of goods’ classification in customs purposes”

See detailed info in Russian

The requirement for admission to English Evenings is fluent knowledge of the English language, which will be the only language spoken on Erarta premises that evening by guests, hosts and staff. We hope that this will help our foreign guests feel right at home.
The Museum building will be closed for the entire evening for normal admission and only those attending English Evenings will be welcomed inside. We have several exciting events planned for our first night, including:

• An opening address from the hosts
• Museum tours in small groups with guides
• Traditional teatime ... with a twist — Erarta presents "Mad Tea Party" featuring the characters of Lewis Carroll
• Erarta's "Izoanimation" movie show and the premiere of the guest-game "Find the picture" over the museum collection
• Organised socialising in a "speed dating" format (no gender bias), enabling you to briefly meet the maximum possible amount of new people and expand your social circle

Please come to Erarta Museum at 2, 29th Line, Vasilievsky Ostrov.
Doors open: 7 p.m.—7.30 p.m.
Drinks and refreshments will be served 7 p.m.—7.30 p.m.
Event starts: 7.30 p.m. — please note that there will be no further admission after that time
Dress code: smart casual
Admission fee: RUB 500
RSVP. Contact Ksenia Groshikova (tel. +7(812) 334 32 37, email: englishevenings@erarta.com) for bookings and other queries

The companies are arriving to St. Petersburg as a part of trade delegation in search of possible business partners. They are willing to discuss different ways of collaboration on good terms.

On 22nd and 23rd of November 2011 Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Venue: Saint-Petersburg, Chapaeva 15, Business Centre Senator, office 420 
(Gorkovskaya, Petrogradskaya metro stations)

You can see more detailed information and register here

BusinessLink Training invites you to join the open program «Motivation: myths and reality» for managers at all levels, HR learning and development specialists, corporate business trainers and freelancers.

Trainer – Lyudmila Gavrilova, business-trainer, General Director of «BusinessLink Training»

Date and time: 23th November 2011, 10.00-19.00

Price: 9 800 roubles, VAT is not  added to above mentioned price.

For SPIBA members is valid 10% discount, this proposal can’t be summarized with other company’s discounts.

For further information, please see  http://www.blp.ru/schedule.htm?training_id=56 or contact our consultants:

Tel. (812) 327 89 96

e-mail: training@blp.ru.

TAXCom Company welcomes you!

We respect your work and always do all the best to let our services make your work easier and more efficient.

We suggest you to take part in "TAXCom - Filer" test-drive which will allow you to replacing paper document with contractors in legally significant electronic ones. In the future it will submit documents electronically to the tax authorities by request.

TAXCom Company offers a free option - TAXCom-Filer system test-drive for Members.

In order to connect to the system and start test drive you just need to write us about your desire to our e-mail: sfdoc@taxcom.ru

All the necessary materials and legislation will be provided to you. You can see more detailed information in introduction and presentation. We are confident that you will appreciate our proposed service and its benefits.

On 18th and 19th of October 2011* Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of demo days will get free trial for videoconference solution for one month.

October, 13. Sokos Olympia Garden Hotel, St.Petersburg 16:30 -19:30

Traditional and innovation approaches to an issue of work efficiency. Case study  of Baltic Brewery Company. Nina Illarionova, Natalia Artemjeva, C&B Department, Baltika Brewery Company. 

Working efficiency – what is it about? Sergey Aristov, HR Director Eurosib, GK

Working efficiency program of “Chainaya Lozhka”  fast-food restaurants. Tatyana Mourygina, HR Director “Chainaya Lozhka” Company

Basic principles of efficiency. Sergey Smirnov, Operation Efficiency Consultant.

People and Teams of Changing implementation two paradigms - “TO APPOINT” versus  “TO INSPIRE”.

Experts Discussion. Moderation: Olaf Hauer, business-coach.

Intercomp Global Services, a leading international business process outsourcing provider, due to business development moved to new premises in St. Petersburg.

Starting from October 7, 2011 our new physical address will be:

Jensen House Business Center, 62A, 3 liniya V.O., St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia

Phone number and remain the same +7 (812) 740-1860

More information is available at www.intercomp.ru

Erarta, the Museum and Galleries of contemporary art, would like to invite you to attend the opening night of a new project called "English Evenings". Our inaugural event will take place on Friday 7th of October 2011 and will occur on a monthly basis from there on.

The requirement for admission to English Evenings is fluent knowledge of the English language, which will be the only language spoken on Erarta premises that evening by guests, hosts and staff. We hope that this will help our foreign guests feel right at home.
The Museum building will be closed for the entire evening for normal admission and only those attending English Evenings will be welcomed inside. We have several exciting events planned for our first night, including:

• An opening address from the Director of Museum, Mikhail Ovchinnikov and the creator of the overall Erarta project, Marina Varvarina

• A premiere of a unique multi-media performance entitled "Incapability of Flight" — a play set in one of Museum halls, whose cast is exclusively made up of characters from paintings of a renowned artist Elena Figurina. You will get the chance to meet the play ensemble and Elena herself

• Museum tours in small groups with guides

• Traditional teatime ... with a twist — Erarta presents "Mad Tea Party" featuring the characters of Lewis Carroll

Please come to Erarta Museum at 2, 29th Line, Vasilievsky Ostrov.
Doors open: 7 p.m.—7.30 p.m.
Drinks and refreshments will be served 7 p.m.—7.30 p.m.
Event starts: 7.30 p.m. — please note that there will be no further admission after that time
Dress code: smart casual
Admission fee: RUB 500
RSVP. Contact Ksenia Groshikova (tel. +7(812) 334 32 37, email: k.groshikova@erarta.com) for bookings and other queries

Business-school AMI (Advanced Management Institute) invites you to the presentation of the program Mini-MBA in Entrepreneurship.

Mini-MBA in Entrepreneurship - this is a new extended version of the management program for owners and top-managers devoted to the organizational evolution issues on different stages of company development.

Speakers – Margarita Datskaya, President, AMI and Anastasia Vitkovskaia, MBA, Managing Partner, Open Programs Leader, AMI.

Presentation will take place on Thursday, 29th September, 2011 at 18.00 at SPIBA office on 21 Nevsky pr., business center Mertens House, office 506.
Working language of the meeting - Russian.
Please, confirm your participation via email ami@ami-int.ru or by phone +7 (911) 704-8019 

27 September 2011 - BusinessLink Training invites you to join the workshop «AQAL for managers: tools of decision making», author and  trainer – Tatiana Soltitskaya.                              

28 September 2011 - BusinessLink Training invites you to join the open masterclass «Skills of recognition manipulations and demands reclamation. Algoritm of manipulations neutralization». Author and  trainer – Ilona Seregina (TeamLab Moscow), partner of BusinessLink Training.

Details in Russian here

27 September 2011 - BusinessLink Training invites you to join the workshop «AQAL for managers: tools of decision making», author and  trainer – Tatiana Soltitskaya.                              

28 September 2011 - BusinessLink Training invites you to join the open masterclass «Skills of recognition manipulations and demands reclamation. Algortithm of manipulations neutralization». Author and  trainer – Ilona Seregina (TeamLab Moscow), partner of BusinessLink Training.

Details in Russian here

On 20th and 21st of September 2011* Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of demo days will get free trial for videoconference solution for one month.

Meeting program: 
• coffee
• Elisa company presentation 
• demonstration of videoconference solutions from Cisco, Vidyo, Polycom
• demonstration of Videra Virtual Office solution 
• videoconference with Helsinki or Moscow 
• Q&A session 

We are glad to invite you at the Seminar organized by Ashmanov and Partners that will take place 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. September 09, 2011.

Discussed issues:

- Internet Competitor Analytics (examples);

- Website Promotion in Practice.

Please, confirm your participation and number and names of participants from your company.

The number of participants is restricted.

Besides, you can send any questions re. your web-site and topics for the seminar. Please send questions before September 07, 2011

Participation is free of charge.

To confirm your participation, please send your data to Oleg Barantsev barantsev@ashmanov.com. For more information: tel. (812)441-2965 or mob. +7(911)939-0033

This program has been developed for specialists in management accounting, financial managers and accountants, managers who want to acquire skills necessary for making management decisions and become specialists certified by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

CIMA Performance Management includes two mandatory module.

• Costing systems.
• Forecasting and budgeting techniques.
• Investment project appraisals.
• Decision-making under uncertainty.
• Managing short-term financing.

• Pricing and product decisions.
• Cost planning and competitive advantage analysis.
• Budgeting and management control.
• Control and performance measurement of responsibility centers.

During the presentation you will have a chance to win 50% discount for the course.
To participate please fill in the registration form.

Learn more about the diploma: http://www.pwc.ru/ru/training/CIMA-diploma.jhtml
Date: 25 August at 17:30.

Place: Grivtsova lane, 4, Sadovaya metro station. PwC office.
Looking forward to seeing you in PwC Academy!

Pepeliaev Group’s land, real estate and construction practice has received this year’s Real Estate Market Records Award, earning recognition as the best real estate team in 2011. Alexey Konevsky, head of the practice, was named among the Top Practitioners in the field.

• Undertook legal due diligence of 139 plots of agricultural land, which were to be included in a close-end real estate mutual fund.
• Drafted a memorandum on the risks arising from the privatisation of land plots located in an area that might potentially be affected by the construction of the Moscow Region Central Ring Road. 
• Provided legal support in various projects that involved large-scale investments in land and property, raising finance and building shopping and office centres in various Russian regions, building a sawmill and a pulp and paper mill, making preparations and building transport and logistics centres in St Petersburg, Moscow Region and Leningrad Region, selling a hotel chain, setting up the manufacturing of automotive components; assisted in a brownfield project that involved the redevelopment of an oil-loading terminal and construction of new facilities on the site, etc.
• Worked on the Electrical Power Panel under the Federal Antimonopoly Service, which included contributing to drafting the rules whereby retail electrical power markets would be regulated during a transitional period until the reform of the electrical power industry was completed. 
• Provided legal support in the sale, acquisition and leasing/renting of land and real estate, etc.

We are glad to invite you at the Seminar organized by Ashmanov and Partners that will take place 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. August 12, 2011.

Discussed issues:

- What do people think about you? System of Internet opinion monitoring;
- SMM (Social Media Marketing), social networks’ customers.

You can ask any questions re. your site during the break or after the Seminar.
You can send questions in advance.

As for SMM, kindly send your web-sites for express audit of social networking potential.

Please, confirm your participation and number and names of participants from your company.

The number of participants is restricted.
The Seminar is free of charge.

To confirm your participation, please send your data to Oleg Barantsev barantsev@ashmanov.com. For more information: tel. (812)441-2965 or mob. +7(911)939-0033

The Salans Global Real Estate Group has advised Heitman European Property Partners IV on its first acquisition in Russia, a Class A office building in Metropolis Mixed-Use Centre, from the developer, Capital Partners.

Metropolis is a 311,000 sq. m. complex comprising three office buildings and a shopping center. It is located in the office corridor connecting Moscow city center and Sheremtyevo Airport. Completed in 2008, it is now fully leased to multinational corporate tenants.

The Salans team advising Heitman was led by Evan Z. Lazar, Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group, Stewart M. Middleman, Head of Cross-Border Transactions for the Global Real Estate Group and Andrei Soukhomlinov, Co-Head of Russian Real Estate Practice Group, including. They were supported by a team of

more than 15 GREG cross-border property lawyers, including Moscow associates Inga Shakhnazarova, Valeria Ponomareva , Andrei Kiryanov, Natalia Afinogenova, Natasha Dondysh, Svetlana Neishtadt.

«BusinessLink Training» is already collaborating with «Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group» for several years. In 2011 we were elected as one of the company’s key partners in personnel training sphere.

The yearly collaboration will be aimed at development of key competences of the company’s managers.

At the very moment a schedule harmonization of training programs for the nearest 3 months is being proceeded. It will be presented in the following areas:

• Decision making skills,
• Business-presentation: methodology and rhetoric,
• Management and leadership,
• Analyzing information skills

We thank «Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group» for trust and long-standing collaboration.

«BusinessLink Training» has become one of the tender winners for the annual training of “Baltika Breweries” personnel.

«BusinessLink» trainers-consultants will be leading a training program «Motivating leadership» for the several managerial levels of «Baltika» staff in different regions of Russia in 2011-2012.

Active work on the project will be started by the end of the summer 2011.
We want to thank «Baltika» company most warmly for the confidence they have placed in us. 

• Creating and registering investment funds in Russia and foreign jurisdictions (including drafting agreements between investors (partners), and the funds’ investment declarations etc).
• Carrying out legal due diligence of assets.
• Structuring M&A transactions being entered into by direct private investment funds and unit investment trusts.
• Concluding members' or shareholders' agreements in the context of joint ventures between direct private investment funds and their Russian partners.
• Providing legal support to direct private investment funds in the process of their entering and leaving projects.
• Providing support on transactions in which loan financing is attracted.
• Advising on the tax aspects of setting up and operating direct private investment funds and unit investment trusts.
• Advising on tax matters when structuring asset acquisitions and attracting financing.
• Analysing and recommending how to reduce tax risks for portfolio companies.

The work of Pepeliaev Group’s Direct Private Investments Group is coordinated by Dmitry Koronchik, under the direction of Nikolay Solodovnikov, the Head of the firm’s Corporate Practice. Dmitry has more than seven years’ experience of working in corporate law, on M&A transactions and in supporting private investments. He has been involved in many major projects, including working on international M&A deals, forming joint ventures, company restructurings and asset management.

Lawyers in the Direct Private Investments Group have undertaken a range of projects providing legal support to private investments.

• Advising Fleming Family and Partners on issues in the formation of FF&P Russian Real Estate Development Limited (an investment company specialising in the construction of real estate in Russia), as well as on issues connected with creating funds for investment in other Russian assets.
• Advising (together with the lawyers Kirkland & Ellis) the investment fund Bessemer Venture Partners on issues arising from a capital investment in Enforta, a national WiMAX network operator.
• Advising, together with the UK firm Slaughter & May, an American hedge fund on issues connected with undertaking derivatives transactions in Russia.

Recent legislation governing payment systems in Russia (the Law On the National Payment System1 and the parallel law amending various related existing legislation2 (the “NPS Legislation”)) fills a number of gaps in the prior law, and holds the potential to spur the growth of this vital industry. At the same time, serious doubts remain concerning implementation of the new legislation, especially as concerns international payment systems.

Salans has been awarded second place in a rating of the top 70 law firms in Russia. Seventeen Salans attorneys were also rated.

Salans partner, SPIBA Executive Committee member, Karina Chichkanova was named Russia’s best real estate lawyer.

The Best Lawyers list also includes:

Moscow office:

• Boris Bruk and Alexei Panich (tax law)
• Mathieu Fabre-Magnan and Alexei Knyazhev (corporate law)
• Anna McDonald, Florian Schneider and Andrei Soukhomlinov (real estate)
• Marina Ryzhkova (labor relations)
• Jane Tarassova (corporate law, energy and natural resources)
• Denis Voevodin (intellectual property)

On 20 July 2011, Salans St. Petersburg team led by partner Mikhail Ivanov won a landmark decision for Salans client Ciments Français recognising an ICC arbitral award that had been set aside in Istanbul, Turkey, the seat of the arbitration.

This is the first time that a Russian court has recognised a foreign arbitral award set aside at the place of arbitration. Until this decision, only the courts of a very limited number of countries, notably France and The Netherlands, have enforced arbitration awards set aside in the place of arbitration. To do so, the Russian court examined the interrelationship between Article IX of European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of 1961 (“1961 European Convention”) and Article V of New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1958 (“1958 New York Convention”). The Salans team included Of Counsel Elena Barikhnovskaya and paralegal Anna Sviridova.

The award in question, a partial award, had been issued by an ICC arbitral tribunal seated in Istanbul, Turkey. The arbitration is still pending. The successful claimant, Ciments Français, sought to have the award recognised in the Russian Federation, before the commercial court for the Kemerovo region. The respondent, Sibirskiy Cement Holding Company, objected to such recognition.

On 19 July 2011 the President of Russia signed the Federal Law No. 245-FZ on the introduction of changes to the Russian Tax Code. The information letter drafted by DLA Piper experts covers the major changes related to VAT taxation.

This program has been developed for specialists in management accounting, financial managers, accountants, managers who want to acquire skills necessary for making management decisions and become specialists certified by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

CIMA Performance Management includes two mandatory module.

Performance Operations (P1 exam):

·        Costing systems.

·        Forecasting and budgeting techniques.

·        Investment project appraisals.

·        Decision-making under uncertainty.

·        Managing short-term financing.

Performance Management (P2 exam):

·        Pricing and product decisions.

·        Cost planning and competitive advantage analysis.

·        Budgeting and management control.

·        Control and performance measurement of responsibility centres.

You will have a chance to win 50% discount for the course.

Please fill in the registration form:

http://www.pwc.ru/RU/en/training/assets/registration-form-cima-corporate-spb-2011.xls

Date: 11 July at 17:30.

Place: Grivtsova lane, 4, PwC office.

Looking forward to seeing you in PwC Academy!

Ernst & Young Academy of Business is glad to announce the launch of the new preparatory program for the Certified Internal Auditor^® (CIA^®) certification exam in Russian.

The Russo-British Chamber of Commerce is delighted to invite you to RBCC St Petersburg International Property & Construction Forum, which will be held on  29^th June 2011 in the luxurious surrounding of the Hotel Astoria.  

Now in its fifth year, the RBCC St Petersburg International Property and Construction Forum has secured itself an unrivalled reputation for insightful analysis and frank discussion between senior-level professionals in this dynamic and important sector. The event also enjoys the constant support of the St Petersburg City Government

Committee for Investment and Strategic Projects.

This year we are delighted to have as our keynote speaker the City of London's Lord Mayor, Michael Bear, a leading figure in the UK property and construction industries with a long history heading inner-city regeneration projects.

The Lord Mayor business delegation members will also attend the Forum. Among them CEOs and senior representatives from City of London, UK Trade & Investment, City Investment group, Property Dimensions, FMLI, Gensler, Global Infrastructure Group Ltd, Shared Value.

For more detailed information on speakers and themes please see the event programme attached. 

***All Forum’s participants will be invited to take part in the Evening Reception on the occasion of the Lord Mayor of London visit to St Petersburg at the UK Consulate General Garden for British / Russian business community***

To register please fill in the registration form attached and send it to evgenia.novoselova@rbcc.com.

For SPIBA members the cost of participation is the same as for RBCC members 
Number of places is limited! Please register early to avoid disappointment.

For press accreditation please contact Marina Voloshinova (marina.voloshinova@rbcc.com). For delegate enquiries please contact Evgenia Novoselova (evgenia.novoselova@rbcc.com).
Please also don’t hesitate to contact us on +7 (812) 346 50 51. 

Consulate General of Great Britain in St Petersburg, Trade & Investment Department and Russian-British Chamber of Commerce, Saint Petersburg International Business Association and Association of European Business 

Have the pleasure of inviting you to the reception on the occasion of the visit to St. Petersburg of The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman Michael Bear in the Residence garden of Her Majesty’s Consul General (5 Pl. Proletarskoy Diktatury) 

On Wednesday, 29 June  2011

19.00-21.00

* Dress Code: Business suit. Please have your photo ID with you

R.S.V.P. by June 28 via office@spiba.ru or by phone 3259091

The St. Petersburg Times and the company Intercomp Global Services are pleased to invite members of SPIBA to HR SEMINAR "How much does employee of the business cost in 2011" 

Venue: Hotel Holiday Inn, Moskovsky Prospekt 97A, Hall “Deineka " 
Open Hours: 10:00-12:30, Registration: 09:30-10:00 

Changes in taxation, which came into force in 2011, have forced employers to think seriously about the possibilities of optimizing the costs of their employees. During the seminar guests will receive full information about how much Russian and foreign employees cost now to businesses and what are the ways to reduce the insurance burden. 

Questions for discussion: 
• Growth of direct and indirect costs due to changes in legislation on insurance premiums 
• Correct calculation and payment procedure of taxes on wages of foreign employees
• Changes to the calculation of compensation on sheets of temporary disability and maternity, etc. 

Moderator - Eugene Klimina, Director of Intercomp Global Services in St. Petersburg 

Speakers: 
Catherine Borushkova, manager of legislative expertise and training Intercomp Global Services, Moscow 
Olga Nazarenko, an accountant and consultant Intercomp Global Services, St. Petersburg 

Conference will be useful for corporate executives, heads of services of staff, HR managers of Russian and international companies. 
 Special offer on the invitation - 10% discount for SPIBA members. 
 Participation Fee: 4,500 rubles (VAT not included), includes a package of materials, coffee breaks 
More information and registration: Anastasia Filippova, tel. (812) 325-60-80, filippova@sptimes.ru

June 24, 2011 Association of Exporters and Importers with the support of Guild of Professional traders will hold a roundtable on "Current issues of the declaration,verification and correction of customs value in 2011."

Please see program in Russian and registration form

«Leaders of corporate philanthropy — 2011» is the joint project of the daily business newspaper
"Vedomosti", the international network of audit and consulting firms PWC International Limited (PwCIL) and nonprofit partnership of grantmaking organizations «Donors Forum».
The project goal is to identify best corporate philanthropic programs and to disseminate information about them among interested parties - business, authorities, mass-media, and broader civil society in order to raise awareness in corporate philanthropy in Russia.
The project consists of ranking in sphere of creation and management of corporate philanthropy and competition of programs under few nominations.
During the years of realization the project attracted over 80 companies, most of them – more than once. Results were identified by a number of well-known experts in the field, presented in a number of professional conferences and platforms and due to special efforts – publications and presentations- were noticed by interested persons from the government, academia, and mass-media.
By participating in the project, the companies have possibility:

• to raise efficiency of the work in social sphere;
• to tell about their successes to a bigger number of interested parties;
• to receive consultation about their own programs and to structure their activity in a more effective way;
• to influence successful relations between society, philanthropic institutions, and business.

The methodology was specially designed and  developed by PwC and Donors Forum experts. The methodology is based on a range of qualitative and qualitative criteria to measure company’s strategy and performance in philanthropic activities.

How to take part in competition:
Participation in competition is free of charge. It is necessary to send the filled questionnaire and materials till August 20th, 2011 at сorporateleader@donorsforum.ru.

Organizing committee contacts: +7(499) 978-59-93, сorporateleader@donorsforum.ru.

To receive latest news of the project, and also download application forms visit Donors Forum website  at www.donorsforum.ru
Also to learn more about the project and conditions of participation you are invited to attend the seminar on June 23rd, 2011 at the Higher school of management of St.Petersburg State University.
Venue: St.Peterburg, Volkhovsky lane, 3, room 309 (the Higher school of management of St.Petersburg State University).
Date and time: on June 23rd from 16.00 till 18.30.
Speakers: the director of Center CSR HSM of St.Petersburg State University  Yuri Blagov and the executive secretary of the Donors Forum  Natalya Kaminarskaya
Registration for the seminar is open till June 21st, 2011 by e-mail: csr@gsom.pu.ru

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of demo days will get free trial for videoconference solution for one month.

Meeting program: 
• coffee
• Elisa company presentation 
• demonstration of videoconference solutions from Cisco, Vidyo, Polycom
• demonstration of Videra Virtual Office solution 
• videoconference with Helsinki or Moscow 
• Q&A session 

Meeting program: 

There were 48 fabulous speakers, 70 innovative partners, 35 media representatives, a total of 530 participants and over 100 organizers joining at the 2nd EU-Russia Innovation Forum. The 2nd Forum provided a good platform for small and medium-sized businesses to start new international business partnerships. In order to organize a truly European event next year, Lappeenranta has applied to become the main organizer of the annual Congress of European Business & Innovation Center Network – EBN and the 3rd EU-Russia Innovation Forum will be organized in connection to the EBN Congress 2012.

Learn firsthand the latest innovations and trends in international business planning: allow participants to share their experience, develop strong relationships with both foreign and local financial and tax advisers, lawyers, bankers and business representatives – these are the objectives of the conference, which will take place on June 2-3, 2011 in St. Petersburg at the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya.

Automotive Production, Purchasing and Supplier Management Strategies for OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers in Russia

Here's a sneak preview of who'll be there:

In June 2011, a traditional event with the participation of a FIFA Ambassador for SOS Children's Villages Andrei Arshavin will take place in SOS Children's Village Pushkin. The event is devoted to the Children’s Day and it will be held on the initiative of Andrei for the fourth time. We are happy to invite you to join the event, play in one team with a National Team member and Arcenal forward, a Champion of Russia, a winner of UEFA cup, Russian Super Bowl, and UEFA Super Bowl, a bronze medalist of the European Championship, and help orphaned children. A charitable contribution per one representative of a company is 100,000 rubles, or 50,000 rubles for those companies which participated in the event earlier. The money shall be transferred to a current account of SOS Children's Village Pushkin before 01 June 2011. All money will be used for medical and psychological support of the orphaned children living in the Children's Village.

SOS Children's Village Pushkin was built 11 years ago. It is a model of long-term care of orphaned children. 69 children aged 3-20 live in 12 family houses in the Village. Charitable contributions is the Village’s primary source of finance. Happiness and safety of the boys and the girls who live in the Village depends on us.

PwC and SAP cordialy invite you to take part in a ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION that will take place on 1 June 2011 at 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. (registration starts on 9:30 a.m.) in PwC office in St Petersburg. The participation in the event is free of charge.

The round table is intended to bring together financial directors, financial analysts, chief accountants and other professionals who manage financial operations in a company.

Within the round table you will have an opportunity to discuss with colleagues and address to PwC and SAP specialists the following main issues:

Topical issues of the development of financial function and IT,
Experience of business management tools development and implementation, 
Enhancement of company efficiency.

Context Club invites you to visit lection of Svetlana Kirdina (Doctor of sociology, director of the Department of the evolution of socio-economic systems of the Institute of Economics RAS) on the theme «The concept of redistributive economics as a relevant guide to action». In discussion will take part top-managers, company owners and journalists.

The lection will take place on May, 26 at 8 p.m. at the following address:  Dostoyevskogo St., 44-E, business center ZeitWerkHaus.

 If you are willing to participate in the event, please make a reservation at the projects web-site: http://contextclub.org/take-a-part/

Bachelor of Management Programme of St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management for the first time in Russia has been awarded one of most prestigious international accreditations - EPAS (EFMD Programme Accreditation System) for a period of 5 years.

During in the meeting on 18 May 2011, the EPAS Accreditation Board voted to grant EPAS accreditation to the St. Petersburg University Graduate School of Management for its Bachelor of Management programme for a period of five years.

• recover damages
• refusal to release the goods
• customs value
• Classification of Goods
• bringing to administrative responsibility for the STP

24th and 25th of Mayl 2011 Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of demo days will get free trial for videoconference solution for one month.

Meeting program: 
• coffee
• Elisa company presentation 
• demonstration of videoconference solutions from Cisco, Vidyo, Polycom
• demonstration of Videra Virtual Office solution 
• videoconference with Helsinki or Moscow 
• Q&A session 

For the first time Russian Corporate Counsel Association (RCCA) and Pepeliaev Group will bring together the representatives of the Constitutional Court of and corporate lawyers to discuss the practical needs of contemporary legislation. Particular attention will be given to the planned amendments to the Civil Code. The future enforcement of the general principles of the Code and, therefore, development of arbitration practice, will depend, to a considerable extent, on the positions of the Constitutional Court. During the conference the judges of the Constitutional Court and RCCA members will discuss current trends of constitutional justice in Russia, existing conflict of laws that require efficient settlement, and the role of positions of the Constitutional Court in reforming of the existing legislation.

Main target audience: heads of legal departments of Russian and international companies, representatives of legal and business media.

Registration and additional information:
Ms. Katerina Dedich
phone: +7 (495) 988 53 88, доб. 1406, e-mail: Katerina.Dedich@rcca.com.ru
or Ms. Daria Zemskova 
phone: + 7 (812) 640 60 10, ext. 517, e-mail: D.Zemskova@pgplaw.ru

11th and 12th of Mayl 2011 Elisa Russia invites you to demonstration of videoconference solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconference solutions, get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of demo days will get free trial for videoconference solution for one month.

Intercomp Global Services, the leading Business Process Outsourcing provider in the F&A and HR areas, has announced the appointment of Evgenia Klimina as St. Petersburg branch director.

Evgenia Klimina has considerable experience in the BPO outsourcing area. Before joining Intercomp Global Services she had been managing an outsourcing company in St. Petersburg for 5 years, had worked in the financial departments in such companies as JTI Petro, Chupa Chups, had been employed as a consultant for ERP system implementation projects.
The appointment of Evgenia Klimina to the position has become an important step in the business development strategy of Intercomp Global Services in St. Petersburg, aimed at constant improvement of client service quality, extension of service portfolio and client base in the North-West region.
For more information please contact:
Olga Kapralova at (812) 740-1860, ext. 4136 or 
olga.kapralova@intercompglobal.com
You can find more information at the web site: http://www.intercomp.ru/

4th and 5th of May 2011 Elisa Russia invites you to a demonstration of videoconferencing solutions and its possibilities.

During the demonstration you will learn the best practices of using videoconference solutions, you will get acquainted with different videoconference solutions, you will be able to compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants at the "demo days" will get a free videoconference trial solution for one month.

DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Elena Zaitseva has been promoted to Partner in the Tax group as of 1 May 2011.

Elena Zaitseva has over 10 years of experience in the tax sphere and advises clients on a wide range of tax matters including Russian and international tax structuring, due diligence, transfer pricing and other contentious and non-contentious tax matters. Her client portfolio includes both local businesses and multinational corporations.

Elena began her legal career with Arthur Andersen’s St. Petersburg office in 1999 and in 2002, when Andersen combined its operations in Russia with Ernst & Young, she continued working at EY Law. In 2005 after the integration of EY Law CIS and DLA Piper, Elena proceeded in her career as Senior Associate and then Legal Director of the Tax practice with DLA Piper.

Elena holds degrees in Economics and Law. She is currently co-chairperson of the 
St. Petersburg International Business Association's (SPIBA) Legislation and Lobbying Committee.

28 of April the  business daily “Delovoj Peterburg” and the business-communication agency DP Media will run a conference “Methods for the efficient cooperation with the state authorities”.

Goals:

To discuss the methods of lobbying a company's interests and external relations modernization, how to work out and implement lobbying programs, how to attract effective public and political partners, upbuilding a company's reputation among investors and state authorities, and to work out the best ways for preparations and biding for a tender.

Context Club invites you to visit the lecture of Yuri Lifshits (Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sc., private entrepreneur) on the theme «Social Entrepreneurship: under what conditions civic engagement creates a new sector of the economy?». In the discussion top managers, company owners and journalists will take part.

The lecture will take place on April, 28 at 8 p.m. at the following address:  Dostoyevskogo St., 44-E, business center ZeitWerkHaus.

If you are willing to participate in the event, please make a reservation at the projects web-site: http://contextclub.org/take-a-part/

WE INVITE YOU AND YOU PARTNERS!

• the  50th anniversary of  IOC (Intergovernmental oceanographic commission) of UNESCO, 
• the 50th anniversary of the 1st flight of  man into the space,
• the 50th anniversary of the legendary Russian underwater film "Amphibia-man",
• the 100^th anniversary of Jacque-Ives Cousteau .

The program for the  VI Parade of underwater films “Aquafilm” includes the world- best films about water and the underwater world, with film-winners from different festivals: “World festival of underwater images” (Marseilles, France) and others.  «The Space Odyssey» will be presented with unique material and images from space, provided by  the Space Memorial museum (Moscow), the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, the Russian Space Department and others. 

26 and 27 of April 2011 Elisa Russia invites you to a demonstration of videoconferencing solutions and its possibilities.

Within the demonstration you will find the best practices of using videoconferencing solutions, you will get acquainted with different videoconferencing solutions, you will be able to compare equipment of different manufacturers and ask Russian and Finnish experts.

Only participants of the "demo days" will receive a free videoconferencing solution trial for one month.

Finnish corporation Elisa celebrates 2 years in St. Petersburg by opening a new division, the outsourcing call-centre Elisa, that specializes in complex solutions for attracting new clients and increasing the loyalty of  existing ones.
Among the different services the call-centre offers are:  telemarketing, formation and actualization of data bases, surveys and questionnaires, hot lines, information services, free of charge 8-800 calling, virtual office, etc.

BusinessLink Training invites you to join this open program for managers at all levels, HR learning and development specialists, corporate business trainers and freelancers.

Program Content:

• Integral approach to organizations
• Frame: “Organizational systems” (quadrant ITS)
• Frame: “Organizational relationships and culture” (quadrant WE)
• Frame: “Behavior Management” (quadrant IT/ HE /SHE)
• Frame: “Man as part of an organization” (quadrant I)

The program has an MBA course format: concepts, discussions, practical training, individual work.

Dates and time: 21-23 April 2011, 10.00-18.00

Price: 24 800 roubles, VAT is not  added to abovementioned price.

For SPIBA members is valid 10% discount, this proposal can’t be summarized with other company’s discounts.

For further information, please see http://www.blp.ru/schedule.htm?training_id=47  or contact our consultants:

Tel. (812) 327 89 96
e-mail: training@blp.ru 

Intercomp Global Services, an international BPO provider, together with the leading HR management portal www.hrm.ru and the magazine HR Director announces a business game “Is outsourcing effective?”

You have a chance to solve a business case on the efficiency of payroll and HR administration outsourcing at a certain enterprise. The authors of the best works will get prizes. The deadline for participate is April 25, 2011. The final results will be summarized on April 28, 2011 and published at www.hrm.ru and www.intercomp.ru

We invite you to participate!

Detailed information about the business game “Is outsourcing effective?” is available here:

Context Club invites you to visit lecture of Gleb Kalashnikov (Candidate of Historic Sc., the executive secretary of the Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation) on the theme «Actual heraldry: the signs in public administration, political struggle, and business strategy». In discussion will take part top-managers, company owners and journalists.

The lection will take place on April, 14 at 8 p.m. at the following address:  Dostoyevskogo St., 44-E, business center ZeitWerkHaus.

If you are willing to participate in the even