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The organizers of MegaFon's IPO bought 6,756,954 GDR and 195,727 shares of the company as part of the oversubscription option (greenshoe), which is 1.121% of its capital, follows from the operator's message. The shares were purchased at the offering price of $20 per share.

In total, as part of the greenshoe, the organizing banks - Morgan Stanley and Sberbank CIB (global coordinators of the placement), Credit Suisse, Citi and VTB Capital (joint bookrunners) - could buy back 8,452,681 shares/GDR (10% of the placement volume). Thus, banks purchased only 82.3% of the option volume. Taking into account the greenshoe, the volume of MegaFon's IPO amounted to 91,479,500 securities, of which 2,153,000 shares and 89,362,500 GDR. The total volume raised was $1.83 billion.

"Interfax"

Rostelecom is expanding into Armenia

By the end of 2015, GNC-Alfa (a subsidiary of Rostelecom in Armenia) will invest more than $30 million in the construction of a FTTB (fiber to the home) network, through which it will provide fixed telephony services, broadband Internet access and pay TV private users, said company CEO Hayk Farmazyan. On Tuesday, GNC-Alfa, which is the largest backbone operator in Armenia and an operator of telephony and Internet access for corporate clients (market share - more than 50%), began providing services for private users under the Rostelecom brand in three cities of Armenia - Abovyan, Ashtarak and Gyumri.

"Prime"

Pharmaceutical industry

FAS assessed the auction

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) recognized a violation of antimonopoly legislation by pharmaceutical distributors ROSTA CJSC and CV Protek CJSC when participating in tenders for the purchase of medicines under the Seven Nosologies program for the Ministry of Health and Social Development, the service reported.

The subject of consideration by the FAS commission in the case was the bidding for the purchase of medicines “Mycophenolic acid” and “Rituximab” with a total amount of government contracts of 3.4 billion rubles, which were carried out by the Ministry of Health and Social Development. The companies were allowed to participate in the tenders and were present during them, but one by one they refused to submit price proposals. As a result, the contract was awarded to a single bidder who made an offer that was 99.5% of the initial (maximum) contract price.

"Interfax"

The organizers purchased MegaFon