OREANDA-NEWS. June 02, 2011. An annual conference “M&A Forum 2011”, which took place on 26th May 2011, focused on the Russian market of mergers and acquisitions and reviewed the major sectors of the economy, where the growth of M&A transactions is expected. Participants were able to obtain the most up-to-date information regarding the main trends on the M&A market, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The conference brought together representatives of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Economic Development, the Federal Financial Market Service, Svyazinvest, the Property Committee of the State Duma, Rosbank, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Committee of the Federation Council on Financial Markets and Money Supply, Х5 Retail Group N.V., etc.

Participants evaluated the situation on the Russian M&A markets: the trends and recovery rates, market forecast for 2011-2012, discussed legal aspects of M&A transaction support, efforts of the authorities to prevent hostile takeovers and the key strategies and procedures for achieving business goals and enhancing efficiency of acquisitions, as well as the rules for effective integration of new business-processes.

FAS Russia was represented by the Head of its Legal Department Sergey Puzyrevskiy, who discussed the trends of developing antimonopoly regulation in Russia. He paid special attention to analysis of the modern situation with control over economic concentration in Russia, as well as proposals towards reducing administrative barriers in this field, which have been put forward by the Federal Antimonopoly Service as part of the “third antimonopoly package”.

The conference also discussed enforcement of the law on foreign investments in strategic sectors of the economy and proposals for improving legislation in this field.

“Discussing the stated theme and explaining the government position on the issues of control over economic concentration and foreign investments is an important element of developing comfortable investment climate in Russia”, said Sergey Puzyrevskiy.