OREANDA-NEWS. JSC Alliance Bank (the “Bank”) is pleased to announce that it will be holding conference calls on 19 November 2009 with certain of its financial creditors to discuss the Bank’s Restructuring Plan as described in the Information Memorandum of the Bank dated 5 November 2009, reported the press-centre of Alliance Bank.

Two conference calls will be held, one at 9:00 a.m. (London) for financial creditors in Asia and a second at 3:00 p.m. (London) for financial creditors in Europe and North America. The conference calls will be hosted by Mr. Maxat Kabashev, Chairman of the Management Board of the Bank and Mr. Gaziz Shakhanov, Managing Director.

The conference calls may only be accessed by persons who have claims in respect of the financial indebtedness of the Bank or its subsidiaries. By accessing either of these conference calls each such person will be deemed to represent that they have such a claim and that they:
(i) are either (a) outside the United States and are not a U.S. person as defined in, and as permitted by, Regulation S under the Securities Act or (b) are within the United States and are either an accredited investor as defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act or a qualified institutional buyer as defined in Rule 144a under the Securities Act; and
(ii) if in a Member State of the European Economic Area are a “qualified investor” within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive; and (iii) in any event, are located in a jurisdiction in which distribution of the Information Memorandum and the information contained therein would not be prohibited or restricted without further action by the Bank and are lawfully entitled to receive the Information Memorandum and the information contained therein and to participate in the relevant call.

The purpose of the conference calls will be to discuss the principal features of the Bank’s Restructuring Plan as set out in the Information Memorandum, the steps financial creditors must take in order to vote on the Restructuring Plan and the options that will be available if the Restructuring Plan is approved at the creditors’ meeting to be held on 15 December 2009.
Financial creditors must register at one of the following websites in order to obtain the dial-in details for these conference calls:

Conference call at 9:00 a.m. (London) – 19 November 2009 http://events.webeventservices.com/lazard/2009/11/19/am

Conference call at 3:00 p.m. (London) – 19 November 2009
http://events.webeventservices.com/lazard/2009/11/19/pm