• Date of publication: 31 August 2020
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  • Dragon Capital together with J. Soros and other investors will attract $ 300 million to Ukraine

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    A group of investors, including Dragon Capital, Goldman Sachs, George Soros and OPIC, intends to ensure the flow of funding to Ukraine in 2018

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Such plans were shared at a press conference, the general director and founder of Dragon Capital, Tomasz Fiala. According to him, now the investment company has about 10 deals in the process.

The head of Dragon Capital said that the size of the final amount will directly depend on the implementation of one or two major transactions with co-investors for up to $ 150 million. So, in 2017, Dragon Capital's investment in Ukraine amounted to $ 100-150 million. The investment company has recently become the most an active applicant to the Antimonopoly Committee for the approval of transactions.

As T. Fiala recalled, Dragon Capital took an investment pause in 2013-2014, but already in May 2015 began to invest actively in the country, increasing its pace every year.

CEO Dragon Capital states that the fact that Ukrainian assets are now the cheapest since the years 2000-2004. This is explained by the fact that investors highly assess the risks of the country and are not ready to pay more.

Tomas Fiala noted that the most interest among investors is export-oriented enterprises, in particular, in agriculture, food production, IT.

Investment company Dragon Capital, founded in 2000 in Kiev, works in the field of direct investment and financial services and provides a full range of investment banking and brokerage services for corporate and private clients.

 

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