Sogdiana Capital Advisors (SCA) is a limited liability partnership affiliated with Sogdiana Regional Development Company Ltd. (SRDC) a diversified multi-profile company incorporated in Cyprus with its main operational office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

     As its name implies, SCA’s main area of activity is Central Asia, although offices are also maintained in Hungary and the United States.

    SCA’s main consulting activities are divided into three specific areas that are:

 ·        Project Finance

 ·        Trade Finance

 ·        Private Equity

     As a complement to the above, Sogdiana’s partners/principals have extensive experience in privatization, corporate restructuring and acquisitions/mergers. With more than twenty-five years of combined experience in Central Asia, SCA’s partners are well suited to advise and counsel both local and foreign investors on all aspects of “doing business” in each of the five countries in the region.

     SCA’s extended experience covers all aspects of corporate due diligence, structuring, financing, marketing and governance. Clients include local and foreign investors already established in the region as well as potential new investors looking to make sound, secure, and profitable investments. Existing clients include governmental entities, private companies and international lending agencies.

     Sogdiana’s understanding of doing business in Central Asia is unique, and our combination of financial/business experience accumulated over more than fifty years is equally unparalleled.

     We welcome all interested parties and look forward to being part of your solution to doing business successfully and profitably. We are equally flexible in how we work and how our clients compensate us.

         Sogdiana Capital Advisors (SCA) provides a range of financial services for local and international clients interested in doing business in Central Asia. While based in Uzbekistan, we are capable of rendering assistance in any of the other countries in the region. Our directors have extensive experience in Central Asia and have managed substantial amounts of capital in a wide range of businesses for over a quarter of a century. SCA maintains close collaborative relationships with law firms and financial advisory organizations in such countries as Brazil, where SCA is capable of providing a full range of investment and trade related services. We take pride in the fact that we are businessmen with long standing professional credentials.

        Sogdiana’s objective is to help clients do business successfully. We are capable of developing a flexible mix of strategies for a particular situation, as well as recommending ways to hedge or ameliorate specific risks. Our range of services starts with the initial step of assessing a potential opportunity, and ends with the successful realization of a full program. As financial specialists we can help structure, arrange and implement our client's needs. We maintain strong contacts with international banks and other multilateral institutions interested in developing interesting new opportunities in Central Asia.

        As investors in our own right, we are experienced in starting or restructuring businesses. We are also versed in how to divest or exit from undesirable situations.

        Our working arrangements are flexible and reasonably priced. Fees are tailored according to the scope, tenure and complexity of our client's task or needs.

        In addition to our directors, we are backed by a team of local professionals with proven experience in working with foreign investors. Our network and capabilities extend beyond Central Asia, and we are capable of providing professional services in Eastern and Central Europe as well as throughout the CIS.

        As businessmen we cannot ensure that your business will succeed, but we can make sure that you receive the best practical and professional advice.

Officers and Directors

Donald R. Nicholson II, Managing Director, was President and CEO of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund, prior to which he was a senior investment advisor to the governments of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. He has lived in Central Asia for four years, and has 35 years of experience as a venture capitalist and investment banker in worldwide emerging markets.

Charles L. Rudd, Managing Director, was the founding partner of Sogdiana Regional Development Company Ltd., and has been a resident of Tashkent for the past twelve years and has more than 25 years of experience working and investing in Central Europe and the region of the former Soviet Union. He is also Chairman and CEO of Aliya International Ltd., a related entity, which has subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates in Budapest, Hungary and Moscow, Russia that maintain strong commercial ties with Central Asia. Before getting involved with the former Soviet Union, he was a Measurement Standards Engineering Manager with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in California and the co-founder of Ocean Science Services Inc. a oceanographic services company.

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