/KASE, December 13, 12/ - On December 13, 2012 the building of business
center "Almaty Towers" hosted the ceremony of solemn opening of trading in
common shares of JSC "Kcell" (Almaty) in the secondary market of Kazakhstan
Stock Exchange (KASE).
The ceremony coincided with the successful accomplishment of the selling of
those shares on KASE by way of subscription and special trading session under
the global offering of shares and GDR with KZT7.5 bn raised as a result.
Kcell was represented by CEO Veycel Aral, CFO Bauyrzhan Ayazbaev, CCO
Nurlan Sargaskaev, heads of Kcell's leading units.
On the part of KASE the ceremony was attended by President K. Damitov, First
Vice-president I. Sabitov, Vice-president A. Tsalyuk and heads of KASE's key
units.
Also representatives of financial advisors to Kcell - JSC "VISOR Capital" and
JSC "Subsidiary organization of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan "Halyk Finance", and
the legal advisor- SNR Denton Kazakhstan Limited took part in the event.
In their speeches managers of KASE and Kcell noted that the offering of Kcell's
common shares became one of the largest local share offerings over the past
few years effected both on KASE and London Stock Exchange (LSE) in the form
of shares and global depository receipts respectively. The success of the
transaction jointly carried out by local and international financial institutions
shows capabilities of Kazakhstan's stock market and witnesses of Kazakhstan
becoming the regional financial center.
The trading was opened by transmitting KASE trading data to screens mounted
in the hall.
Pictures of the ceremony will be available on KASE website, in section "Events",
at
http://www.kase.kz/ru/events in the nearest time.
[2012-12-13]