14 Mar 2012 13:36

MinFin to have sovereign Eurobond road show in USA, Britain March 19-27

MOSCOW. March 14 (Interfax) - The Russian Finance Ministry will between March 19 and 27 have a series of meetings with debt investors in the United States and Great Britain for an issue of sovereign Eurobonds, a source in financial circles told Interfax.

The road show will travel to San Francisco (March 19), Los Angeles (March 20), Boston (March 21), New York (March 23), and London (March 26-27).

The Russian delegation will include the director of the ministry's state debt and financial asset department, Konstantin Vyshkovsky, the head of the department's financial market borrowing office, Yulia Legkodymenko, and deputy chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Shvetsov.

The ministry is looking into the option of going onto the Eurobond market at the end of the first quarter or start of the second quarter of this year.

BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Troika Dialog , and VTB Capital have been appointed the issue organizers.