AT Service

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2014: KDS Invest buys 50% in "AT service"

In October, 2014 KDS invest carried out the first transaction. It purchased 50% in "AT service", entering into the AT Consulting group. The company was interested in investments and looked for partners. And the offer of "KDS of the invest" was the most profitable, the managing partner and the founder of group Sergey Shilov explained. The owners who sold a share had two conditions: the investment attraction in development and non-interference of new owners to operating activities, the person familiar with terms of transaction^[1] adds^[1].

The representative of Sibur says that it is the personal projects of the vice president of the company Shamalov and Denis Nikiyenko which do not have relations to the company. "The matter was considered by corporate committee on ethics, there is no conflict of interest here. Sibur has no contracts with AT Consulting" — he added. For Sergey Kotlyarenko (the third cofounder of KDS Invest it is personal investments, not connected neither with the assets of the Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov managed by it, nor with other clients too, approves the lawyer's acquaintance.

Earlier among owners of AT Consulting called Dmitry Tarabu, the person close to the Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov^[2].

The initiator of investments is Kotlyarenko, the acquaintance of two other partners claims. He is a legal advisor of Sibur therefore it is familiar for a long time with Nikiyenko and Shamalov, he also convinced them to be engaged in joint business. Its home company renders legal services to AT Consulting and when that looked for investors, Kotlyarenko brought the acquaintances ready to invest, the interlocutor of Vedomosti explains.

At this time AT Service is engaged in development of IT products and provision of services on IT outsourcing.

"We consider this direction perspective and thanks to the involved investments we expect to strengthen seriously AT Consulting positions, offering customers qualitative Russian IT products and services. We are going to use the received investments only for business development of subsidiary company" — Shilov told.

It did not open the amount of investments.

KDS invest invested only about 50 million rubles in AT Service, Shamalov and Nikiyenko's acquaintance claims. This amount looks very modest in comparison with indicators of the AT Consulting group which revenue in 2013 made nearly 6 billion rubles, and net profit in 2012 approached 1 billion rubles. Revenue most "AT of service" in SPARK does not reveal. However, if to judge by the volume of the received government contracts, it should be much lower. So, for 2013 and 10 months 2014 all AT Consulting group concluded with state structures and the state-controlled companies, by data "SPARK-marketinga", contracts almost for 2.96 billion rubles. From them 365.79 million rubles were the share of AT Service, the company delivered including servers, hardware and software systems and peripheral devices for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After the transaction in 2014 before the company new opportunities in connection with a course towards import substitution in the IT sphere open, all interlocutors of Vedomosti recognize. The company specializes just in this area and in outsourcing that is very perspective in present conditions when private and government institutions aim to optimize costs, to bring a lot of things to outsourcing and whenever possible to replace more expensive foreign product domestic, Shamalov's acquaintance argues.

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