Our Clients, Partners and Projects

"Money speaks sense in a language that all nations understand"
(Aphra Behn, Brittish writer, 1689)
"There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about"
(Oscar Wilde, famous Brittish writer)

Our international and Russian clients may rely on experience, expertise, innovative, impartial and uncompromising approach of Independent Consulting Group (ICG). Working on the confidentiality basis, we keep our clients fully informed of the progress made, strictly observing the deadlines and always providing fact based advice of impartial experts.

Most part of our clients belongs to the category of international large, medium and small companies from all over the world. As a rule, these are the companies:
    seeking new opportunities in emerging markets including Russia
    planning to enter into strong partnerships or alliances with Russian partners in order to expand their business in Russia
    evaluating critically their performance on the Russian market and trying to review their business track record in Russia in order to find ways of     improving their key performance indicators.

Independent Consulting Group experts have also been actively involved into the projects of Russian majors regarding development and implementation of strategic business initiatives (please see the related section containing a list of such initiatives and describing corresponding ICG services).

oil and gas
banking
IT
telecom
petrochemical and chemical industries
consulting
advertising
transport
travel and hospitality industries
industrial and civil construction
catering
real estate, etc.

Independent Consulting Group keeps good relationship with its clients; some of them even become our strategic partners, although independence still remains the key principle of ICG. In order to avoid misunderstanding, we never disclose the exact list of our clients due to the confidentiality reasons (our solutions are unique for each client, but we can not compete with ourselves while rendering services to different companies representing the same branch of industry). If necessary, we are ready to provide our potential clients with the recommendations from the clients from a different area, but will this make sense to you? Our best recommendation is the highest quality of our services that we provide to our clients. Do you want to make sure of that? Just try us, and you will never regret! We are ready to share your risks by giving you extra VALUE for MONEY working BEYOND the SCOPE!

Our Partners

Due Diligence in China
Due Diligence Investigation, Investment Management and Sourcing Services
www.rbduediligence.com

Organizational research
Assessment of personnel satisfaction, loyalty level, requirements, attitude towards changes.
Change Management.
www.concretum.ru

Our Projects

Investigating share acquisition opportunity in the interests of a Russian company in Shared Call-Center in Germany, conducting Due Diligence – 2002-2003, estimated amount of the transaction – € 58 million.
Benchmarking analysis of corporate restructuring practices in Russian and international telecom companies – 2003.
Advising on cross shareholding by foreign shareholders in subsidiaries of a large Russian telecom company - 2003.
Research into the issue of controlling stake acquisition in a German telecom company by a Russian company – 2003 год, estimated transaction amount – € 730 million (in cooperation with an international financial consultancy).
Feasibility study within the framework of acquisition by a Russian company of local mobile operators in former Yugoslavia republics (Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) – 2004.
Analysis of the Russian M&A market for the telecom sector – 2004.
Advising foreign investors on issues of shares acquisition in the Russian biggest telecom holding in the process of privatization - 2005–present, amount of transactions – between 350 and 900 million euros.
Advising a Russian telecom company on the IPO issues (jointly with international financial and legal consultants) – 2006-present.
Managing services selling efforts of a large Russian system integrator– 2007-present.
Development of telecom business strategy for a large Russian Finance & Industry Group - 2007.

Advising a large Russian oil&gas holding and its subsidiaries on issues of acquisition of core and non-core assets in Central, Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Asia and Latin America – 2000-present.
Due diligence of oil&gas assets in the Balkans – 2003.
Leading efforts aimed at capitalization growth of an oil&gas company through implementation of cost management program – 2003.
HR market analysis in West Siberia, development of recommendations regarding search and hire of highly-skilled Russian personnel for a large international oil&gas company – 2003.
Due diligence of assets of a West-European oil&gas trading company – 2004.
Investment analysis of the Russian energy sector – 2004.
Development of Russian market entry strategy of a Western engineering company, rendering support in implementation of the strategy – 2004-2006.
Development of approach to evaluation of integration and synergy obtained through merger of marketing and trading divisions of two leading Russian oil&gas and energy companies – 2005.
Due diligence of oil&gas assets in a West-European country, structuring the asset acquisition deal – 2005.
Building asset/investment portfolio management system for a Russian oil company – 2005.
Development of proposals regarding energy trading system: spot and forward markets – 2005.
Development of recommendations regarding organizational changes in connection with development of the private banking sector – 2005.
Rendering support to one of the largest international oil&gas companies in search of industrial and production assets in Russia (screening for investment projects in the area of oil&gas facilities privatization, conducting Due Diligence, working out value proposition for potential partners amongst Russian oil&gas companies in Sakhalin and Jamal, development of merger and post-merger strategy) – 2005-2006.
Development of a new motivation and remuneration system for personnel of a large Russian oil&gas company - 2005-2006.
Development of a holding company structure at a post-merger stage – 2006.
Development and implementation of a risk management system in a large oil&gas holding – 2006-2007.
Involvement in preparation of a multiphase asset swap deal between Russian and foreign partners (conducting Due Diligence, agreeing the obtained results, determining structure of the deal, developing recommendations on preparation of the master agreement regarding the terms of reference, working out mechanism and preparing proposals of the Russian party on principal business terms of the deal) – 2005-2006.
Conducting analysis of ultimate consumer market entry scenarios for a Russian oil&gas company in Western Europe via partnership with XXX company - 2006-2007.
Accounting Fast Close system implementation in a Russian oil&gas company – 2006.
Acquisition of Russian oil&gas assets by foreign investors (Due Diligence, deal structuring, development and implementation of business reorganization, development of proposals on asset management system reorganization) – 2006.
Analysis of the Russian market of oil service companies – 2006.
Business process reengineering for the oil production business of a Russian oil&gas holding – 2007.
Advising the management of a Russian oil company on issues of listing in West-European and American stock exchanges, Eurobonds issue and IPO preparation in Western Europe – 2007.
Advising the management of Moscow representative office of a world’s larges oil&gas company on issues of strategic development in Russia, rendering support in relationships management with Russian strategic partners, advisory support on legal, tax and other professional issues related to company’s business operations in Russia – 2007.
Developing suggestions on modernization of Russian oil refinery facilities - 2007.
Improving management system and structure of a large vertically-integrated Russian oil&gas holding – 2007.
Working out development strategy for the electrical business of a large Russian holding – 2007.
Working out strategic planning systems, project and investment management, budgeting and management accounting, business process reengineering and subsidiary management model for a diversified production holding, improving personnel management system – 2006-2007.

Development of investment memorandum for a large international bank on the project of power assets swap deal in Western Europe and Russia – 2003.
Preparation of investment memorandum of a US-based private equity fund for potential Russian investors – 2004.
Development of business proposal on banking information system implementation (ALNOVA) in a large Russian bank – 2004.
Development of proposals on implementation of risk management system in a large Russian bank – 2005.
Advising Russian governmental bodies and banking institutions on public-private partnership issues aimed at financing of large-scale infrastructure projects in construction and transportation - 2005.
Development of proposals on attracting foreign investment into a joint venture providing banking services (retailing) – 2005.
Screening for strategic partners for large Russian banks amongst West-European financial institutions (advising on issues of strategic partner selection for further banking business development, rendering support in preparation and organization of corresponding meetings and negotiations, advising on selection of the optimal cooperation model; providing high-level support in relationships development with foreign strategic partners at the negotiations stage) – 2005.
Development of investment memorandum under asset acquisition project in Western Europe within the framework of Russian and West European bank alliance - 2005.
Development of a new corporate business model for a large Russian bank – 2005.
Involvement in development and conducting activities aimed at capitalization growth of a large Russian bank in IPO preparation (carrying out in-depth analysis of existing corporate clients, products and organization structure of the Bank in order to develop a new business model allowing attract major players of the Western stock market) – 2006.
Development and implementation of Balanced Scorecard System in a Russian bank – 2006.
Development of integrated finances services model for an alliance between a Russian insurance company and a Russian financial corporation - 2006.
Advising on investment opportunities for Russian lending institutions into British and US private equity funds – 2006.
Advising the management of a large Russian bank on issues of business reorganization, corporate governance and implementation of a new budgeting system – 2006.
Development of proposals on Eurobonds issue for one of the largest Russian banks – 2007.
Analysis of banking investment opportunities of an alliance between a large Russian joint stock bank and a Western partner - 2007.
IT Strategy development and CRM system implementation in a large Russian bank – 2007.
Analysis of the Russian banking sector in the interests of large Western investment and financial institutions – 2006, 2007.
Development of proposals for Western investors on acquisition of shares in Russian banking assets – 2007.
Advising the management of large Russian banks on issues of Eurobond issue and IPO in Germany - 2007.
Rendering assistance in diagnostics and precision of development strategy, development of strategic planning and control processes for a large Russian insurance company – 2007.
Providing support in development and implementation of a corporate information system for a large Russian insurance company – 2007.

Feasibility analysis under the project of construction of a large transportation and logistics center in the Moscow Region – 2006.
Feasibility analysis and preparation of investment memorandum under the project of establishing a large ammonia railroad carrier – 2006.
Development of proposals on improvement of the corporate governance structure of a trade and supply company affiliated with OAO Russian Railroads – 2006.
Advising corresponding governmental and business entities on issues of private-public partnership structuring in implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects – 2006.
Analysis of the Russian automotive market – 2007.
Development of the Russian market entry strategy for an Asian automotive industry player – 2007.
Advising on Russian market entry for an Asian producer of road building machines - 2007.
Concept development of construction of an International mobile transportation & logistics exhibition center – 2007.