Events

RSPP, jointly with the VEGAS LEX law firm and the KPMG consulting company, invites you to attend the conference "Special Investment Contract: reload".

Program

Session I. Current experience in implementing SPICs: opinion of the state and of business

• Experience in implementing SPICs at the federal level: major results

• Assessment of efficiency and perspectives of SPICs in terms of achievement of objectives of the industrial policy of the Russian Federation

• Further steps to improve the SPIC mechanism taking into account the balance between the interests of the public and private parties

• Experience in implementing SPICs in the region: major results

• Insight in the SPIC mechanism through the lens of investors

• Future SPICs: instruments of protection of the private party’s interests

• Explanation of certain aspects of application of tax incentives to the private party to SPIC

• The matters of application of tax "grandfather provision" to the parties to SPIC when the investor’s position becomes worse in case of changes in tax legislation

• Tax aspects of SPIC: key aspects, "pitfalls", and specifics of structuring projects in practice. Correlation of the federal and regional tax incentives

Session II. Future of SPICs: prospects for development

• SPIC 2.0

• SPIC in the power industry: first steps

• Proposals for improving the mechanism taking into account the market / industry needs.

• Tax preferences for the private party to SPIC: regional specifics (through examples in several regions)

• Questions with regard to SPIC on the part of foreign business

• Alternative mechanisms of promotion of investment activity in Russia

• The "downside" of SPIC: risks of restriction of competition and ways of their minimization

• Status of current work concerning the conclusion of federal SPICs

• Recommended practices when drafting an application for conclusion of SPIC

The following people are invited to participate: general, financial and technical directors, GR-directors, heads and experts of legal departments or GR-subdivisions of manufacturing companies that carry out / plan the large-scale expansion of production and/or creation of new large-scale industrial sites

External experts:

ALEXANDER SHOKHIN, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

VASILY OSMAKOV, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

ANDREI IVANOV, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

ALEXANDER SMEKALIN, Chairman of the Government of the Ulyanovsk Region

DENIS BUTSAEV, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government - Minister of Investments and Innovations of the Moscow Region

FRANK SHAUFF, Director General of the Association of European Businesses

ALEXIS RODZYANKO, President and CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia

MIKHAIL RASSTRIGIN *, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

ALEXEY TEXLER *, First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

IGOR VDOVIN, Chairman of the RSPP Committee on Investment Policy, Development Institutions and Export Support, member of the Interdepartmental Commission for the SPIC

ALEXANDER SITNIKOV, Managing Partner, VEGAS LEX

MIKHAIL ORLOV, Partner, Head of Tax and Legal Advisory at KPMG in Russia and CIS

SERGEI VOLOGODSKY, Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Development of Industry

MAXIM GRIGORYEV, Partner, Head of Special Projects VEGAS LEX

ALEXEY SAZANOV *, Director of the Department, Tax and Customs Policy, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

NINA GULIS, Partner, Tax and Legal Counseling, Corporate Taxation, KPMG in Russia and CIS

YURIY IVANOV, Project Manager of Tax Practice VEGAS LEX

ANNA DUPAN, Director of the Institute of Problems of Legal Regulation of the Higher School of Economics

ROMAN TROTSENKO, member of the Bureau of the RUIE Board, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AEON Corporation

GLEB OVSYANNIKOV, Head of Public Relations Department, PJSC "LUKOIL"

Nadezhda CHERNOVA, Deputy Director for Work with Government Structures and CSR of United Metallurgical Company JSC

MIKHAIL MATASOV, Deputy General Director for Interaction with the Public Authorities of PJSC "KAMAZ"

OLEG KALINSKY, Director for Interaction with the Authorities of PJSC Uralkali

TATIANA KULYABINA, Director for Legal Issues of the Eurasian Region of Sanofi Russia

NIKITA MASHYANOV, Commercial Director of the Ulyanovsk Machine Tool Plant (DMG MORI)

Representative of the Federal Antimonopoly Service *

Participation in the event is free of charge

To register**, please confirm that you will participate by email at conference@vegaslex.ru.

**Applications to participate in the event will not be accepted after 6:00 p.m. on April 23^rd. Participation in the seminar is allowed only after registration has been confirmed and if there are vacant seats.

Please note that this event is closed to representatives from law firms and to private practice lawyers.