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New Warsaw Stock Exchange IPO Partner From Ukraine

Date 18/06/2008

Aval-Brok Limited with its seat in Kiev has been named WSE IPO Partner under the programme aimed at attracting foreign issuers to the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Aval-Brok is the 13th WSE IPO Partner and the sixth Partner from Ukraine.

Aval-Brok is one of the main institutions providing comprehensive financial services on the Ukrainian market including among others M&A advisory and services, IPO advisory as well as brokerage. Aval-Brok is a member of the PFTS exchange.

More information at www.aval-brok.com

The WSE IPO Partner Programme, launched in the autumn of 2006, is designed to ensure the support of WSE Partners – foreign brokerage houses – for WSE promotion in foreign markets. WSE signs agreements with brokerage and investment companies with a view to directly and indirectly attract issuers established outside Poland.

Under the agreement, WSE Partners receive a special logo which they may use in their efforts to attract issuers and an opportunity to include information on their WSE-authorised partner status in letters and documents.

The following companies have the WSE IPO Partner status: Altera Finance, Sokrat Capital, Millennium Capital, Pro-Consulting Ltd., Concorde Capital from Ukraine, Evli Securities and Hansabank from Estonia (operating in the Baltic States and Russia), Uniter Investment Company JSC and Priorbank from Belarus, and Wood & Company and Cyrrus, a.s. from the Czech Republic.