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Since 2008 Whales Group provides services under its new trademark – Banks Bank. We have developed the new website http://www.bankbankov.com, where you can find latest information about our company, including actual database with banks for sale.
Shall the bank capital be split into shares?
What problems will a bank face when being split into shares? Sharing procedure. Business Plan. Set of Documents. Can the bank share capital be increased at the same time with sharing? What corporate regulations will apply to a joint-stock bank? Open or closed joint-stock bank? Most annoying part of the sharing procedure? And pleasant.
A lawyer or a legal firm?
The arguments in favour of higher professional standards of lawyers as compared to these of legal-firm specialists do not stand up to any criticism. Services of quality to your business are not what you can get from an individual lawyer or not a high-tech company.
What and why shall a legal consultant do in connection with your case in court?
Why is your own investigation of the case necessary? Shall you question your witnesses before trial? How can you win the case before proceedings start? What shall you do if the proceedings develop obviously not in your favour? Can you resist if the proceedings are dragged out? Why are remarks on the protocol required?
How can you avoid errors when signing a contract for delivery of equipment?
As a rule, your enterprise receives the equipment, which has been prepaid 100%. That is by that time you will depend on the supplier too much. Your losses, especially if the equipment was purchased on credit, will snowball hour after hour while your expensive purchase is idle.
How to test a legal consultant? (Express test)
Just put 5 simple questions, while you talk, give 1 point per every correct answer, and you will know what your future defence in court is worth.
How to select a legal firm?
It is complicated even for an expert to analyse the diversity of legal firms: in Moscow only there are about 1000 legal firms and consultation bureaus. It is next to impossible to obtain information of proven dependability from these companies. Your friends say: "Go to this lawyer or to this firm". But you must be sure you have made the right choice - too much depends on it. What is the way to find what you need?
Can you do without judicial procedure or what is mediation?
Any judicial procedure is known for its low efficiency and lentitude. Historically settlement by arbitration (in court) has three disadvantages: it is enforcing - hence the problems of execution, particularly in Russian reality; it is expensive - frequently proceedings cost more than the results yield; it is not awarded in agreement with the parties - the parties take no part at all in producing the result, nevertheless they are compelled to conform to the volition of the arbitrator; they present their arguments, and then get an opinion of an outsider in the form of the cost of their case аs an expensive outcome of involvement of an outside appraiser.
Ballad of the Brief
The Information Brief on the criminal case No. 18/41-03 ("Khodorkovsky Case"), prepared by the Information and PR Department of the Russian Federation General Prosecutor’s Office, appeared to be an educative and exciting source of new knowledge for the business community about the real name of what the business is involved in. “And here the prosecution brushes aside the realities of life, and here again it betrays its ignorance in all aspects of real life of the business world. I am sure that these delusions of the prosecution are quite conscientious, and this cannot be otherwise: living away from reality, getting to know business affairs during criminal proceedings, it is no surprise that the prosecutor’s office everything has a criminal tinge. But the alembic of criminality is not at all suitable for proper analysis of economic phenomena and financial transactions”. A.I. Urusov in defence of Prince Obolensky, 1883.
Procedural errors of the prosecution and defence of Khodorkovsky.
The Khodorkovsky defence case of wrongful detention, violation of the arrest procedure, unwarranted searches are not supported by court not only due to its prepossession, but also because formally the procedures have been more or less followed by the prosecutor’s office and do not offer indisputable causes to bring them into challenge. Violations of the law by the prosecutor’s office during investigation of the case, measures inadequate for gravity of the deed, persecution and attempted pressure on the defence, formal handling of the case by court – all this is a routine daily practice for the State organs of power, mitigated only by considerable prominence of the accused.
Motives for mergers and acquisitions
It is of utmost importance to identify what lies behind a merger, because only this gives a precise indication of the causes why two or several companies, having merged, cost more than separately. And the growth of capitalized value of merged companies is the purpose of most mergers and acquisitions.
Sale and Purchase of Russian Banks in 2008. Market Review
Sale and Purchase of Russian Banks in 2007. Market Review
The prophecies about the Russian market divided by the biggest global players did not fulfil; the State banks are still strong, and the banking market of Moscow will not soon be similar to the banking market of Eastern Europe.
Market Review, Sales and Purchases of Russian Banks in 2005 - 2006.
The base of the Pyramid of Deals shows deals in bare licenses, which make up the majority.
As banks with an insignificant number of clients – below ten thousand – cannot be viewed as a business, for those banks, which are in the gap between a bare license and the banking business, there is almost no demand. For a big foreign bank any Russian bank will be tiny anyway, and will not let it accomplish its true objectives. This buyer is prepared to pay only for the ready entity and for the time saved on entering the new market. At the same time it is not ready to take reputation risks, and no Russian seller can guarantee this. Therefore, almost no transactions are concluded with big foreign buyers (World TOP-20), in spite of both parties being eager to do this.
Want to buy a bank in 2006? Want to sell a bank in 2006?
Sale and Purchase of Russian Banks in 2004 – 2005. Market Review
A revolution on the bank market, which had been anticipated for so long, burst out at last in 2005: early 2005 saw an unprecedented demand for banks. As always, the revolution has produced an effect contrary to what was expected. Instead of falling all the way down, as has been forecasted for about 7 years now, prices for banks have soared.
License price fluctuations in 2001 - 2005.
Want to buy a bank in 2005? Want to sell a bank in 2005?
MARKET REVIEW: Selling and purchasing Russian banks in 2003
In the banking sector property has actively changed hands. In 2003 up to 23 % of banks received new owners. Same as in the preceding years, expectations that small and medium-sized banks would be forced out of the market did not come true, and prices were growing steadily. The market of bank sales is expanding, and is likely to expand further due to increase in money supply, although today would-be buyers are mostly aiming not to control it, as was the case before, but to profit by it. Want to buy a bank in 2004? Want to sell a bank in 2004?
MARKET REVIEW: Selling and purchasing Russian banks in 2002
Average transaction prices in 2002. What influences the price of a bank? Rating by location. How to calculate the price of a bank? Bank sale procedure. Does a buyer of a bank need an intermediary? Does a seller of a bank need an intermediary?
Want to buy a bank in 2003? Want to sell a bank in 2003?
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