А1 acts as a partner in cooperation with strategic investors, initiating projects in the fields of its core competence:

  • risk management,
  • corporate finances,
  • transactions,
  • strategic management.

The strategic investor usually plays a leading part in the operational, sectoral and technological spheres.

А1 and Alfa Group have successful experience of cooperation with large international strategic investors; the most well-known of these are the partnerships with Telenor in project VimpelCom, with British Petroleum in TNK-BP, with MTG in Story First, with Diageo in D Distribution and the Smirnov brand, and with TeliaSonera in MegaFon.