3.	AGREEMENT WITH ROUST TRADING

On April 23, 2012, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) with Roust Trading Limited (“Roust Trading”), for a strategic transaction. Pursuant to this SPA, Roust Trading agreed to make an investment in the Company in three stages, subject to typical closing conditions. In the first stage, on May 7, 2012, Roust Trading acquired 5,714,286 newly issued shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $30 million, or $5.25 per share (the “Initial Shares”). The Initial Shares were accounted for as temporary equity in the balance sheet. Also on May 7, 2012, JSC Russian Standard Bank (“Russian Standard Bank”), a subsidiary of Roust Trading, purchased $70 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due March 18, 2013, bearing an interest rate of 3.00% (the “Debt Security”) issued by the Company. The SPA also contemplated the following transactions:

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upon approval of CEDC’s shareholders, and after the satisfaction of certain other conditions, the Company would be able to cause Roust Trading to or Roust Trading would be able to

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purchase such number of shares of common stock at a purchase price of $5.25 per share sufficient to repay the then-outstanding principal amount of the Debt Security, plus the accrued and unpaid interest thereon, totaling approximately 13.3 million shares of common stock (the “Exchange Shares”) plus additional shares representing accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and

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sell to CEDC the entire principal amount of the Debt Security;

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the purchase by Roust Trading of a new debt security with a principal aggregate amount of approximately $102.6 million maturing on July 31, 2016 (the “Rollover Notes”), with the Rollover Notes to bear a blended interest rate of 6.00% over the term of the Rollover Notes and interest accrued on the Rollover Notes to be effectively paid in shares of common stock before January 1, 2014, and in cash thereafter; and

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the receipt by CEDC of the right to put to Roust Trading a debt security maturing on July 31, 2016 (the “Backstop Notes”) of an aggregate principal amount of up to $107.5 million, with the Backstop Notes to bear a blended interest rate of 6.00% over the term of the Backstop Notes and interest to be accrued on the Backstop Notes to be effectively paid in shares of common stock before January 1, 2014, and in cash thereafter.

On July 9, 2012, the Company entered into an amended and restated securities purchase agreement (the “Amended SPA”) with Roust Trading, which amended and restated the entirety of the SPA described above. The material amendments to the terms of the SPA as set forth in the Amended SPA include:

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the Company will, within five business days of a request by Roust Trading, issue to Roust Trading, as an adjustment to the issue price of the Initial Shares and Exchange Shares, up to the following amount of shares of common stock at any time after the following dates: (i) 3 million shares of common stock after the execution of the Amended SPA; (ii) 5 million shares of common stock after receipt of Company Stockholder Approval (as defined in the Amended SPA); and (iii) 2 million shares following the Backstop Escrow Release Date (as defined in the Amended SPA) (the shares of common stock in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above collectively the “Additional Shares”);

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interest payable (i) on the Debt Security prior to the Second Closing (as defined in the Amended SPA) may, at the option of Roust Trading and after the Second Closing, be effectively paid in shares of common stock at a price of $3.44 per share of common stock, (ii) on the Rollover Notes through June 30, 2014, will be effectively paid in a number of shares of common stock, determined by dividing the amount of interest payable over such period by the 5-day volume weighted average price (the “VWAP”) of the common stock (as traded on NASDAQ), provided that the VWAP may never exceed $4.13 or be lower than $2.75 (the “VWAP Amount”), and (iii) on the Backstop Notes through December 31, 2013, will be effectively paid in a number of shares of common stock, determined by dividing the amount of interest payable over such period by the VWAP Amount;

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the final maturity date for the Debt Security will be extended to July 31, 2016; and

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the Company’s board of directors authorized (subject to applicable blackout periods and regulatory limitations) Roust Trading to purchase an amount of shares of common stock in the market that, when added to the shares currently owned by Roust Trading, the Exchange Shares, the Additional Shares and the shares that Roust Trading would receive in connection with interest payments under notes issued and to be issued to Roust Trading, would not exceed an amount of outstanding share capital of the Company that would require Roust Trading to make a tender offer for the Company’s common stock under Polish law. Upon receipt of certain Polish regulatory waivers if and to the extent received, the Company’s board of directors has agreed that the threshold will be raised to 42.9%.

In consideration of the above terms, and subject to the fulfillment of certain conditions, Roust Trading agreed to waive certain contractual claims it may have under the Original SPA and under certain other agreements arising from the accounting errors announced on the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 4, 2012.

The cash proceeds from the Rollover Notes will be used by the Company to repurchase the Convertible Notes held by Roust Trading or its affiliates with a face value of approximately $102.6 million, at par. The remaining proceeds (net of transaction fees and expenses) received by the Company from the issuance of the Initial Shares, Debt Security and Backstop Notes will be used to repurchase or repay the outstanding amount of Convertible Notes.

As described in Amendment No. 2 on Form 10-K/A to the Company’s Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed with SEC on October 5, 2012, the Company restated its consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, primarily due to the fact that certain retroactive trade rebates and trade marketing refunds were not properly recorded by CEDC’s principle operating subsidiary in Russia, the Russian Alcohol Group. The cumulative impact of restatements for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, exceeded certain thresholds as set out in the Amended SPA. As a result, Roust Trading may no longer be obliged to consummate the associated funding transaction and may have other claims against the Company, including potential event of default under the New Debt. Roust Trading has reserved its rights and therefore it is uncertain at this stage whether Roust Trading will consummate the funding transaction agreed with the Company or if Roust Trading will propose new terms to an amended transaction or propose an alternative transaction. Discussions have commenced between the Company and Roust Trading regarding of the impact of the restatement on our strategic alliance.