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Arkaim Advisors' $470 million Emerging Markets Corporate High Yield Debt Fund has racked up a 12% return this year, beating 99% of its peers, by focusing on debt from Ukrainian companies, according to Bloomberg data. The UK-based firm, which specializes in acquiring debt of health companies in distressed countries,
Dragon Capital, one of Ukraine's most prominent investment firms, said it has sold Ukraine's sixth-biggest warehouse complex, now damaged by the war, to Avrora, the country's biggest retailer in what it described as a "landmark deal" for the war-time era. The complex
Ukrainian malls, factories, hotels, warehouses, retailers and other large businesses doubled the pace of construction of rooftop solar arrays and windmills for their own use in the first half as Russian attacks repeatedly hit Ukraine's power grid, according to national data. In the first half of 2024, businesses
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi intends to discuss the prospects for peace as well as the reconstruction of Ukraine in his visit this week with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, The Print reported, citing unnamed diplomatic sources. Modi, who arrives in Kyiv on Aug 23 after a two-day visit to Poland,
Peikko Group, a Finland-based global supplier of construction industry solutions, will build a factory and warehouse in the central Ukrainian city of Bila Tserkva in preparation for an expected surge in demand for the reconstruction of Ukraine. The group, which supplies concrete connections and slim floor structures worldwide, plans to
Ukraine's government has approved a plan to boost renewable energy to account for 27% of all energy consumed in the country by 2030, with a total investment of $20 billion. The sector will add 10 gigawatts of new generation capacity within six years, bringing the portion of renewables
Foreign citizens have opened 3,075 companies in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022, led by company openings in wholesale trade, according to company registration data. The data, tracked by analytics firm Opendatabot, shows Turkish citizens were the most likely to start companies in Ukraine, with 396
Cement production by Ukrainian manufacturers jumped 24.4% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period last year as the need for reconstruction materials increases with war damage. Output rose to 3.8 million tons between January and the end of June this year, Ukrcement, the national
Some 43% of German companies in Ukraine plan to increase their investment in the next 12 months, according to a survey by KPMG Deutschland and AHK Ukraine - German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The survey of 142 companies showed 49% planned to leave their investments unchanged over the next
Kellyanne Conway, who served as a high-profile senior counsel to Donald Trump when he was president of the US, has registered as a lobbyist for the charitable foundation of Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk. Under a $50,000-a-month contract, Conway has agreed to "make best efforts to convince US lawmakers,
The number of deals in the Ukrainian M&A market increased by 4.2% in the first half of this year compared to the same period of 2023, while the value of deals jumped 31%, KPMG said. In absolute terms, the number of deals rose to 25 from 24
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold a final review on Sept. 11 on a possible €40 million loan to Ukrainian pet food producer Kormotech Group, which aims to build a second factory in Lithuania. The company, based in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, will build
Penny Pritzker, the US special envoy for the reconstruction and recovery of Ukraine, called for "whole-of-government reconstruction planning" in Ukraine to prepare for a surge of works to rebuild after the war. "The Ukrainian government has pieces of what is required to implement this type of whole-of-government
Penny Pritzker, the US special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine, visited Kyiv this week with Amentum CEO John Heller, Clayco Inc founder Bob Clark and Westinghouse CEO Patrick Fragman to meet with officials involved in the reconstruction effort. "I brought the private sector here, our CEOs, because our
Irish building materials giant CRH, which aims to buy the Ukrainian cement-making unit of Italy's Buzzi, must first agree to transfer a 25-28% stake in the unit to an independent investor, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has said. The €100 million purchase would give CRH, which already
The international law firm CMS advised the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) on securing regulatory approval for the fund's €4.5 million investment in Bank Lviv, CMS said. The firm advised DGGF on securing regulatory approvals from the National Bank of Ukraine and the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
