Oleg Deripaska - Basic element

Ally of Russian magnate Potanin chosen at Norilsk

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
August 8, 2008 7:27 pm

Metals magnate Vladimir Potanin tightened his hold over Norilsk Nickel on Friday after an ally of his was appointed chief executive of the mining company. Potanin also said he was ... Read more »

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Ruling opens can of worms for Deripaska

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Investigations & Law
July 4, 2008 3:56 pm

When Mr Justice Christopher Clarke heard opening arguments in April for Michael Cherney’s case to bring his $4bn claim for a 20 per cent stake in Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal to ... Read more »

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Potanin Gets Majority Elected To Norilsk to Retain Control

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
June 30, 2008 8:58 pm

Billionaire Vladimir Potanin retained control of GMK Norilsk Nickel’s board after a vote Monday by investors in Russia’s biggest mining company. Potanin, the largest shareholder, got four directors elected to ... Read more »

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Russian tycoons target Norilsk

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
May 28, 2008 8:02 pm

Vladimir Potanin and Alisher Usmanov, two Russian metals tycoons, said on Wednesday they had agreed on an asset tie-up that would open the way for the creation of a Russian ... Read more »

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Rusal takes a step closer to Norilsk fusion

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
April 25, 2008 6:51 pm

Oleg Deripaska, owner of Russian aluminium producer United Company Rusal, yesterday passed a milestone on the road to building a Russian national champion in the mining and metals industry with ... Read more »

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Deripaska Deploys Russian Metals With Bolshoi-Like Pirouette

Filed under Profiles, Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
April 24, 2008 9:51 am

A lunch table laid out with platters of blini, beets and caviar and a bottle of 2001 Montrachet awaits Oleg Deripaska and his guests in a dining room at his ... Read more »

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Five of Russia’s richest 12 men to form a mining giant !

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel, Alisher Usmanov
February 21, 2008 12:56 pm

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s holding company ZAO Metalloinvest, Russia’s largest producer of iron ore, wants to combine with OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel to create an $85 billion mining company.  Metalloinvest has ... Read more »

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Russian moly miner SMR plans Hong Kong IPO

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals
February 19, 2008 1:05 pm

 Russian molybdenum miner SMR, which owns the mineral assets of billionaire Oleg Deripaska, plans to float at least 25 percent of its shares in Hong Kong by this year’s fourth ... Read more »

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Oligarch Oleg Deripaska rated Russia’s richest man, leaves Abramovich behind

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Roman Abramovich
February 18, 2008 3:42 pm

The owner of Basic Element holding, Oleg Deripaska, has seized the title of Russia’s richest man from Chukotka Governor Roman Abramovich who previously topped the list during the recent several ... Read more »

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Norilsk reinforces its defences

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
February 5, 2008 1:42 pm

Norilsk Nickel’s board approved the sale of up to $7bn in energy assets yesterday and agreed to consider a share buyback in a move that could signal growing resistance to ... Read more »

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Web of mystery surrounds Rusal listing

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
January 23, 2008 11:00 pm

When Oleg Deripaska’s UC Rusal floated plans for a $9bn-plus listing last year, the share issue from the outset was a test case for whether a company forged out of ... Read more »

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Deripaska Received $4.6 Billion Rusal Dividend

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January 15, 2008 10:09 pm

Oleg Deripaska received $4.6 billion in 2006 dividends from his Rusal aluminum maker, Vedomosti reported, citing a bond prospectus for fellow billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova Holding company.That was before Deripaska ... Read more »

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Rusal to Purchase Norilsk Stake, Proceed With Merger

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
December 21, 2007 11:52 am

Oleg Deripaska’s United Co. Rusal agreed to buy 25 percent of OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel, Russia’s biggest mining company, and said it will pursue a takeover.Rusal, the world’s second-largest aluminum ... Read more »

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Deripaska, St. Petersburg Sign $20 Billion Investment Accord

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Projects
November 29, 2007 8:58 pm

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and partners including Hochtief AG agreed to invest $20 billion in St. Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin’s hometown, amid a government push to upgrade Soviet-era infrastructure.Deripaska signed ... Read more »

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Three Russian billionaires involved in a cross deal as Norilsk saga ends

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group, Vladimir Potanin - Norilsk Nickel
November 24, 2007 10:37 am

 Rusal Agrees to Buy 25% of Norilsk Nickel From Onexim United Co. Rusal, the aluminum maker controlled by billionaire Oleg Deripaska, agreed to buy a 25 percent stake in ... Read more »

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Two billionaires battle it out in Russia

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Peter Kellner - PPF
November 15, 2007 9:54 pm

Generali has agreed to buy an indirect stake in Russian insurer Ingosstrakh as it presses ahead with plans to expand into the fast-growing Russian insurance sector in spite of a ... Read more »

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Deripaska Expects Profit, Gain for Russia If Oil, Ruble Decline

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Predictions
November 12, 2007 9:23 pm

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who is seeking to add an oil producer to his growing range of holdings, says his country’s economy would benefit from a drop in energy prices.“The ... Read more »

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Deripaska Says Magna Deal Fills All His Needs in Autos

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
November 11, 2007 7:42 pm

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska said his stake in Canada’s Magna International Inc. gives him all he needs to expand his OAO GAZ automaking unit.“Magna has all the resources which you ... Read more »

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Abramovich and Mittal behind Russia Russneft bid-media

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals, Roman Abramovich, Lakshmi Mittal - Mittal Steel
October 24, 2007 5:37 pm

Russia’s richest man, Roman Abramovich, or Indian-born steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is the likely mystery bidder challenging billionaire Oleg Deripaska for control of oil firm Russneft, Russian media said.A source ... Read more »

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Basic Element executive says co has ‘very aggressive plans’ for Strabag

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
October 22, 2007 5:45 pm

Basic Element managing director Gulzhan Moldazhanova said the Russian company has “very aggressive plans” for recently listed Strabag SE. “I am entirely convinced the (Winter) Olympic Games in Sotschi and ... Read more »

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Strabag Shares Rise on Outlook for Growth in Russia

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
October 19, 2007 4:40 pm

Strabag SE, the biggest Austrian building company, rose 6.2 percent on its first trading day in Vienna on prospects for sales growth in Russia.Strabag increased to 49.90 euros from the ... Read more »

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Strabag to Raise EU1.35 Billion for Russian Expansion

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
October 8, 2007 11:41 pm

Strabag SE, Austria’s largest construction company, plans to raise as much as 1.35 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in the country’s biggest initial public offering to fund expansion in Russia.The company ... Read more »

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Credit turmoil forces Rusal to delay listing

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals
September 22, 2007 7:57 am

September 21 2007 United Company Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer, has decided to put its planned London listing on hold because of market conditions. The group had hoped to ... Read more »

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Russian billionaire fled to London after the court order

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Investigations & Law, Mikhail Gutseriyev
August 29, 2007 8:28 am

MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - NK Russneft OAO’s former president Mikhail Gutseriyev has fled to London in order to avoid tax evasion and other charges in Moscow, a source told Kommersant. ... Read more »

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Russian billionaires to spend $2,5billion next year on private jets

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Roustam Tariko
August 24, 2007 1:44 am

Oleg Deripaska, Russia’s second-richest man and owner of the world’s biggest aluminum producer, cruises the world in a Gulfstream V. Billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, with interests ranging from oil to telecommunications, ... Read more »

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Russian Billionaire Deripaska Wins EU Backing for Strabag Stake

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals
August 21, 2007 1:56 pm

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska gained European Union approval to buy 30 percent of Strabag SE, Austria’s biggest builder.The stake will be controlled by Rasperia Trading Ltd., Derpipaska’s Basic Element holding ... Read more »

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Deripaska in Talks to Buy $10 Billion Moscow Financial Center

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Projects
August 8, 2007 11:48 am

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, whose assets include aluminum plants, builders and banks, is in talks to acquire control of a $10 billion Moscow development that would rival London’s City district ... Read more »

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Russian billionaire buys small GM stake - report

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals
August 7, 2007 2:46 pm

MOSCOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner of automaker GAZ , has bought a stake in General Motors of about 5 percent, newspaper Vedomosti on Tuesday quoted ... Read more »

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Will Ford’s Brands Be Another Russian Billionaire’s Bluff?

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Deals
August 1, 2007 2:23 pm

The last time billionaire Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska denied wanting to buy a company, he ended up going back on his word a week later. Will his public denial of ... Read more »

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Deripaska eyes Ford’s Land Rover, Jaguar: report

Filed under Oleg Deripaska - Basic element
July 28, 2007 1:28 pm

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska, the head of Russian automaker GAZ (GAZA.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research), is interested in Ford’s (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research) premium British brands Jaguar ... Read more »

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