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Hunter Biden joins the team of Burisma Holdings

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London, 12 May, 2014

Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, has expanded its Board of Directors by bringing on Mr. R
Hunter Biden as a new director.
R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings’ legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations. On hisnew appointment, he commented: “Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be astrong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters oftransparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit thepeople of Ukraine.”
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, Mr. Alan Apter, noted: “The company’s strategy is aimed at the strongest concentrationof professional staff and the introduction of best corporate practices, and we’re delighted that Mr. Biden is joining us to help us achieve thesegoals.”R. Hunter Biden is a counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, a national law firm based in New York, USA, which served in cases including “Bush vs.
Gore”, and “U.S. vs. Microsoft”. He is one of the co-founders and a managing partner of the investment advisory company Rosemont Seneca Partners,
as well as chairman of the board of Rosemont Seneca Advisors. He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Masters Program in the Schoolof Foreign Service.

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Mr. Biden has experience in public service and foreign policy. He is a director for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, The Center for National
Policy, and the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute. Having served as a Senior Vice President at MBNA bank, former U.S.
President Bill Clinton appointed him an Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley. Mr. Biden
served as Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee.
Mr. Biden is a member of the bar in the State of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Federal Claims. He
received a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
R. Hunter Biden is also a well-known public figure. He is chairman of the Board of the World Food Programme USA which works together with theworld’s largest humanitarian organization, the United Nations World Food Programme. In this capacity he offers assistance to the poor in developing
countries, fighting hunger and poverty, and helping to provide food and education to 300 million malnourished children around the world.
Company Background:Burisma Holdings is a privately owned oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine and operating in the energy market since 2002. To date, thecompany holds a portfolio with permits to develop fields in the Dnieper-Donets, the Carpathian and the Azov-Kuban basins. In 2013, the daily gas
production grew steadily and at year-end amounted to 11.6 thousand BOE (barrels of oil equivalent – incl. gas, condensate and crude oil), or 1.8
million m3 of natural gas. The company sells these volumes in the domestic market through traders, as well as directly to final consumers.
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