KDS Invest

History

2014

Foundation of KDS Invest

In March, 2014 the deputy chairman of board of Sibur Kirill Shamalov became one of founders of KDS invest company from shares in 40% (hereinafter — data of SPARK). Other co-owners with shares on 30% — the colleague Shamalova, the director of legal support of SIBUR Holding Denis Nikiyenko and one more lawyer — Sergey Kotlyarenko famous for what manages assets of the first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. It was announced that aim new structure — investment into securities of the perspective companies.

Purchase of 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 Shamalov and Nikiyenko's personal projects 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 Kotlyarenko it is personal investments, not connected neither with Shuvalov, nor with other clients too, the lawyer's acquaintance claims.

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.

The AT Service purchased by partners 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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