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.