As at 31 December 2007, the
share capital of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" amounted to RUB21,558,451,684, and was
divided into 43,116,903,368 shares of RUB0.50 par value each, including 41,041,753,984
ordinary shares and 2,075,149,384 preferred shares.
Of that amount, 139,989,946 shares were placed during the first issue
in 1993, and further 42,976,913,422 shares were placed during the second issue which took
place in 1995.
On 17 June 2003 the FCSM of Russia issued Order No. ¹03-1131/r
whereby the additional share issues of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" were
consolidated:
- the issues of ordinary shares of OAO RAO "UES of Russia"
were assigned a new state registration number, 1-01-00034-À, and the old state
registration numbers, 73-1P-1553 of 18 August 1993, and MF 73-1-00901 of 16 October 1995,
were cancelled;
- the issues of preferred shares of OAO RAO "UES of Russia"
were assigned a new state registration number, 2-01-00034-À, and the old state
registration numbers, 73-1P-1553 of 18 August 1993 and MF 73-1-00901 of 16 October 1995,
were cancelled.
Holders of the Company's ordinary shares have the following rights:
- to participate in person, or by proxy, in a General Meeting of
shareholders and to vote on all matters reserved to the general meeting;
- to elect and be elected to the management and control management
bodies and control bodies of the Company as provided by Russian laws and the Charter of
the Company;
- to dispose of the shares held by them without the consent of other
shareholders or the Company;
- to receive their share of the net profit (dividends) distributable
among shareholders in accordance with the provisions of Russian laws and the Charter of
the Company;
- to have access to the Company's documents as provided by Russian laws
and the Charter of the Company;
- to require repurchase by the Company of all or some of their shares
in the cases provided by Russian laws;
- the pre-emptive right to purchase, in the event that the Company
issues through open subscription additional shares or securities convertible into shares,
such shares or securities pro rata to the quantity of shares of the category (type) held
by them;
- to receive part of the Company's property (liquidation value)
pursuant to the procedure provided by Russian laws and the Charter of the Company;
- to exercise other rights provided by Russian laws, the Charter and
decisions of the General Meeting of shareholders on the reserved matters.
Type A preferred shares entitle their holders to a fixed annual
dividend. The amount of dividend payable on each Type A preferred share makes 10 percent
of the Company's full-year net income divided by the number of preferred shares, which
make up 25 percent of the Company's authorized capital. If the dividend amount to be paid
by the Company on each ordinary share in a particular year is greater than the dividend
payable per Type A preferred share, the preferred dividend amount is to be increased to
the amount of the ordinary dividend.
Holders of Type A preferred shares are entitled to attend general
shareholders meetings and vote on all matters reserved to such meetings, beginning from
the meeting following the Annual Meeting of shareholders which, regardless of the reasons,
decided not to pay dividends or decided to pay partial dividends on preferred shares of
that type. The right of holders of Type A preferred shares to participate in General
Meetings of shareholders shall terminate from the date of the first full dividend payment
on such shares.
Holders of Type A preferred shares have the right to attend the
Company's General Meeting of shareholders and vote on the matters relating to
reorganization and liquidation of the Company. Holders of Type A preferred shares acquire
the right to vote if the Company's general meeting of shareholders is to consider
amendment of the Company Charter restricting the rights of holders of Type A preferred
shares and granting the holders of other types of preferred shares advantages in terms of
dividend payment priority and/or liquidation value of shares. A decision to make such
amendments shall be deemed taken if supported by at least three-quarters of the votes cast
by the holders of voting shares present at the General Meeting of shareholders, except for
the votes of holders of Type A preferred shares, and three-quarters of the votes cast by
all holders of Type A preferred shares.
The Company shareholders have a pre-emptive right to purchase
additional shares of the Company offered through open subscription (public offering) and
securities convertible into shares of the Company, pro rata to the number of shares of the
type held by them. The shareholders of the Company who vote against or do not participate
in the vote on the proposal of private placement of (closed subscription for) the
Company’s shares or securities convertible into shares of the Company, become entitled
to a pre-emptive right to purchase additional shares and securities convertible into
shares of the Company that are offered through private placement, pro rata to the number
of shares of the type held by them. Such right does not extend to the placement of shares
and other securities convertible into shares through closed subscription among the
existing shareholders only if the shareholders can acquire a whole number of such shares
or other securities convertible into shares in proportion to the number of shares of the
type held by them.
In the event of the Company's liquidation, the Company's property
remaining after the creditors' claims are met is used for payments in the following order
of priority: firstly, payments are to be made in respect of shares subject to redemption
under Article 75 of the Federal Law On Joint Stock Companies; secondly, payments
are made in respect of any accrued, but unpaid dividends on preferred shares and the
liquidation value of preferred shares as provided in the Company Charter; and thirdly, the
property is to be distributed among holders of ordinary shares and all types of preferred
shares.
The Company may authorize the issuance, in addition to the shares
outstanding, of 6,467,535,504 (six billion four hundred and sixty-seven million five
hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and four) ordinary shares, par value of
RUB0.50 (fifty kopecks) each, worth a total of RUB3,233,767,752 (three billion two hundred
and thirty-three million seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and
fifty-two Rubles) .
The Company may issue additional shares only to the extent of the
number of shares authorized for issuance.
The state owns 22,715,371,537 shares, or 52.68% of all shares
outstanding.
MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS OF OAO RAO "UES OF
RUSSIA"*
|
|
Share, % |
Russian Federation through the Federal Agency for Federal Property
Management |
52.6832 |
OOO "Depository and Corporate Technologies" (as nominee) |
14.0094 |
Not-for-profit Partnership "The National Depository Center" (as
nominee) |
9.6654 |
ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO (as nominee) |
9.3820 |
ZAO "Depository Clearing Company" (as nominee) |
5.0371 |
| *As of
31 December 2007 |
NUMBER OF SHARES IN OAO RAO "UES OF RUSSIA"
HELD BY THE STATE*
|
|
Quantity of securities |
Share, % |
| ORDINARY SHARES |
|
|
| Owned by the
state, total |
22,569,848,313 |
52,3457 |
| including: |
|
|
Shares held by the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management
|
22,569,834,761 |
52.3457 |
Shares held by the regional property management authorities
|
13,552 |
0.00003 |
| PREFERRED SHARES |
|
|
| Owned by the
state, total |
145,523,224 |
0.3375 |
| including: |
|
|
Shares held by the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management
|
145,523,224 |
0.3375 |
| *As at
31 December 2007 |
OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE OF OAO RAO "UES OF RUSSIA", %

RUSSIAN FEDERATION RESIDENT VS. NON-RESIDENT OWNERSHIP OF
SHARES IN OAO RAO "UES OF RUSSIA", %

MARKET FOR SHARES OF OAO RAO "UES OF RUSSIA"
Ordinary shares of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" are included in
the A-1 Level Quotation Lists, on the trading floors of ZAO "MICEX Stock
Exchange" (ZAO "MICEX SE"), Non-Profit Partnership "Russian Trading
System Stock Exchange" (NP "RTS SE"), and OAO "Russian Trading System
Stock Exchange" (OAO "RTS SE").
Preferred shares of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" are included in
the A-1 Level Quotation List on ZAO "MICEX SE", the A-2 Level Quotation List on
NP "RTS SE", and OAO "RTS SE".
OAO RAO "UES of Russia" established a Global Depositary
Receipt Program (Reg S) and a Level 1 American Depository Receipts (ADR) for its ordinary
shares in 1997. The Level 1 ADR programme for preferred shares was launched in May 2000.
The Company's DRs are traded OTC in the USA, United Kingdom, Germany,
and Austria.
DR PROGRAMMES OF OAO RAO "UES OF
RUSSIA"
DR PROGRAM |
TYPE |
QUANTITY OF DRS, % OF CAPITAL |
DEPOSITARY BANK |
ADR (ordinary shares) |
Sponsored |
0.75 |
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas |
ADR (preferred shares) |
Sponsored |
0.37 |
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas |
GDR Reg S (ordinary shares) |
Unsponsored |
11.14 |
Bank of New York |
PRICE DYNAMICS OF RAO UES SHARES ON MICEX STOCK EXCHANGE, %

PRICE DYNAMICS OF RAO UES SHARES ON RTS STOCK EXCHANGE, %

Over 2007, the capitalization of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" grew
by 25.8%, or US$11.33 billion, to US$55.17 billion from US$43.84 billion, while the RTS
index grew by 27%. On 11 April 2007, RAO UES shares reached an all-time high on the stock
market, with the price of ordinary shares on the MICEX reaching RUB38.05 and the Company's
capitalization rising to US$62.35 billion.
Among the key corporate events had a major effect on RAO UES stock
prices in 2007: completion of the first stage of RAO "UES of Russia"
reorganization, approval of the final stage of the Company reorganization, sale of the
"government stake" in generation companies.
The share repurchase price approved by the Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" on 27 July 2007 based on the report prepared by the independent
appraiser Deloitte & Touche at RUB32.15 per ordinary share and RUB29.44 per preferred
share of OAO RAO "UES of Russia", which offers investors a hedge ensuring a
minimum price for more than half a year (after 26 October and until 11 December, the
shareholders who voted against or did not take part in the vote were entitled to tender
their shares for repurchase at the above prices).
At end-2007, shares of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" traded at a
discount to the value of the energy assets owned by its entities. According to the
investment analysts' consensus forecast, the RAO UES assets were valued at US$80 billion
at end-2007, while the market capitalization of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" stood at
US$57 billion as at 28 December 2007. This means that the aggregate value of RAO UES
Holding Company assets was 40 percent higher that that of OAO RAO "UES of
Russia".
Last year saw continued reassessment of the power grid sector. The
approval of ratios for exchanging DC shares for shares in IDCs resulted in an increased
demand in this equity market segment.
The ratio most often used for the assessment of power grid companies is
EV/Output. The average value of the EV/Output ratio for transmission (trunk grid)
companies is US$15/MWh. The average value of the EV/Output ratio for distribution
companies is US$43/MWh.
TRADING VOLUMES IN RAO UES SHARES ON RUSSIA'S MAJOR
STOCK EXCHANGES, 2007, MILLION OF USD
Period |
NP "RTS SE" |
ZAO "MICEX SE" |
Quarter 1 |
1,097.13 |
47,209.14 |
Quarter 2 |
1,016.21 |
45,823.83 |
Quarter 3 |
1,326.33 |
26,755.91 |
IQuarter 4 |
811.22 |
12,636.80 |
PRICE DYNAMICS OF RAO UES DR ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(LSE), USD

CAPITALIZATION OF OAO RAO "UES OF RUSSIA"
(ACCORDING TO MICEX), billions of USD

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