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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
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
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,
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
The M&A market in Ukraine is still suffering from a "mismatch" in expectations between foreign investors and local business owners but some deals are starting to move through the pipeline, says Zoriana Podilchuk, a director of FinPoint. "Somewhere like six months ago we noticed a
Reuters highlighted the work of Swarmer as one of "a handful of startups in Ukraine" searching for ways to better control large groups of drones for use in the war against Russia. In an 800-word soft news piece, the news agency wrote that Ukraine hopes research into
Swedfund, Sweden's development finance institution, is opening an office in Kyiv to support the reconstruction and economic development of Ukraine. The fund, which currently invests in "small and medium-sized enterprises in the IT/technology sector, promoting job creation and export earnings," is now looking for
The government-run Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) has invested €4.5 million in Bank Lviv, marking the first foreign investment in a Ukrainian bank since the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022. The bank’s largest current shareholder, impact asset manager responsAbility Participations, based in Switzerland, added a €1
Investment in Ukrainian tech companies may have started a turnaround in the first half of this year after dropping 11 percent in 2023, said AVentures Capital, an early-stage venture firm based in Ukraine. Ukrainians in the tech sector raised $283 million in the first six months of this year,
Kyiv-based Arricano Real Estate, which develops shopping and entertainment properties, will buy back its own shares, totaling a 12.51% stake, from Ukrainian investment firm Dragon Capital so it can introduce an investor from the US. Arricano, which says it has the biggest portfolio of completed shopping malls in
The US Department of State and the US-based think tank German Marshall Fund (GMF) will collaborate to help redesign and rebuild up to three war-ravaged Ukrainian cities, the State Department announced. The program, to be called Ukraine Cities Partnership (UCP) for Sustainable Urban Recovery, will take the form
David Malpass, who served as president of the World Bank until last year, has become senior adviser to investment management group Chicago Atlantic for its Trident impact investing strategy for Ukraine. Malpass, who has worked with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior officials repeatedly during his four-year tenure
Ukrainian investment firm Dragon Capital has leased out all of the newly built warehouse space in its industrial park in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv as prospective tenants lined up to compete for space despite the ongoing war, a company official said. Days after announcing the availability of 14,
