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For immediate release
11 November 2010
MAIL.RU GROUP LIMITED ANNOUNCES ADMISSION TO THE OFFICIAL LIST AND COMMENCEMENT OF UNCONDITIONAL DEALINGS ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
London / Moscow - MAIL.RU GROUP LIMITED ("Mail.ru Group" or the "Company"), the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world based on monthly unique users, today announces that its global depositary receipts ("GDRs"), each representing an interest in one ordinary share, have been admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the regulated market of the London Stock Exchange.
Unconditional dealings in Mail.ru Group's GDRs on the International Order Book commenced at 08.00 UK time today, under the ticker "MAIL"
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James Melville-Ross Leonid Solovyev
Matt Dixon
Emma Appleton
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In connection with the Offering, Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, VTB Capital plc or Pacific Crest Securities LLC or any of their respective affiliates, acting as investors for their own accounts, may subscribe for or purchase GDRs and in that capacity may retain, purchase, sell, offer to sell or otherwise deal for their own accounts in such GDRs and other securities of the Company or related investments in connection with the Offering or otherwise. Accordingly, references in the prospectus to the GDRs being issued, offered, subscribed, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should be read as including any issue or offer to, or subscription, acquisition, placing or dealing by, Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, VTB Capital plc or Pacific Crest Securities LLC and any of their respective affiliates acting as investors for their own accounts. Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, VTB Capital plc and Pacific Crest Securities LLC do not intend to disclose the extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or regulatory obligations to do so.
Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, VTB Capital plc and Pacific Crest Securities LLC are acting exclusively for the Company and no one else in connection with the offering and will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this press release) as their client in relation to the Offering and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to their client.
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