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The Ninth Meeting of the OSCE Economic Forum   Investment Opportunities in
(Organization For Security And Cooperation In Europe)   Ukraine: Problems and Prospects

Prague, Czech Republic...May 18, 2001...Michael Bleyzer, President and CEO of SigmaBleyzer, an American-Ukrainian International Banking Group, which manages the largest private equity fund in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Growth Fund UGF), spoke at the ninth meeting of the Organization For Security And Cooperation In Europe (OSCE) Economic Forum, held in Prague. Bleyzer, in his
presentation, told the Forum delegates, "Attracting large sums of additional private capital to all of the transition economies of the former Soviet Union is critical and absolutely necessary to their long-run success in building market economies and democracy. Strong market economies and democracies cannot be built without private capital taking the lead over all other sources of capital."
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  Ukraine's Investment Climate

Investment and Innovation Policy of Ukrainian Government

National Program on Promotion of Ukraine's Small Business in Ukraine
Investment Attractiveness Rating of Ukrainian Regions

Agrarian Reform in 2000
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Ukraine's woes deepen,   OPIC on investing
with Russia at its border   in Ukraine

At the same time, Russian investors have been snapping up one major Ukrainian company after another - seven in the past several months - in privatisation deals that could be described as murky at best.
This year, the Zaporizhe aluminum plant was sold off to Avtovaz, a Russian company, for $69 million, even though a Ukrainian group had offered $101 million. Yushchenko pushed for the higher offer, but Kuchma steered the sale into Russian hands. Viktor Pinchuk, a suave member of parliament who controls a television and industrial empire and is the common-law husband of Kuchma's daughter, had lobbied for the winners.
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  George Munoz, President and CEO of the Oversees Private International Corporation visited Ukraine in December at the threshold of a new millennium. He was impressed by the 5% economic growth of the country. However, he noted that economic reforms in many countries grew more rapidly. Additionally, they moved much more quickly to eliminate corruption, implemented major economic reforms and got rid of excessive red-tape, etc. much faster than Ukraine. Therefore, American investors prefer to invest in those countries.
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    Uanet, Be Ready   Internet market
    For Investment!   through the eyes of investors
24/11/00. "Computer Review" narrates that about 20 foreign venture and investment funds that are presently operating in Ukraine are willing to invest Internet market. Besides, several foreign and Ukrainian banks claimed about similar intentions as well. However, investors have different approaches to selecting the undertaking for their endowment. Some, like Western NIS Enterprise Fund offers an investment to the company that is at its initial stage. Others like for instance "Alfa Capital Bank" starts investing only the projects that already exist and prove to be lucrative. There are some funds like Red-Stars.com that puts financial resources exclusively in e-commerce; meanwhile SigmaBleyzer does not limit itself to the single Internet market segment. It is interesting to find out what venture investment funds think about Web companies in Ukraine?
 
24/11/00. Serhiy Bulavin, the director of the SigmaBleyzer office in Kiev, believes that Ukrainian Internet market is at the very first stage of its formation. That's why potential investors are currently investigating it and working out their investment strategy. It again evidences the undeveloped I-Net market. On the other hand, it suggests the rapid growth in the near future.
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What about prospective
projects in Ukraine?
24/11/00. Perhaps, the only example of the significant venture investment in the Ukrainian Internet companies is "Nadima Group" that was created as a result of the deal between the French Investment Fund Societe Generale Emerging Europe with Relcom Ukraine and IP Telecom though the mediation of Lederburg Thalmann.
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     Foreign Investors Start   Ukraine shares slide amid
     Putting Funds in Ukrainian Internet low volume, weak demand
The business magazine "Kompanyon" reports that SputnikMedia.net, the leading Ukrainian Internet company, claimed selling shares to the foreign group of institutional and private investors worth $500, 000.
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Leading Ukrainian shares edged down over the past week amid weak demand and traders predicted further slides next week due to low investor interest and a generally downward trend on world markets.
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  State Property Fund Defined The 43 State-Owned Companies That Are To Be Sold In 2001
IBRD to credit the development of Internet in Eastern Europe and countries of Commonwealth of Independent States  
The "Kompanyon" reports that State Property Fund has defined the 43 companies that are to be sold next year. The deal will bring UAHR 9 billion in revenues. "Ukrtelecom" is the most costly project that is expected to turn out in 3,3 billion UAHR after 49,9% of the shares are sold. Thus it will account for the third of the total privatization revenues.
 
   

State Commission on securities and stock market registered the emission of the shares of the following Holding Companies
(the end of Octovber)

 
Company Value of all shares in hryvnas (UHR) Cost of 1 sharein hryvnas (UHR)
"Ukrnefteproduct" (Kiev) 36 652 947 0.3
"Electrobud" (Kiev region) 8 004 530 0.25
Waste Recycling Plant "Energia" (Kiev) 42 805 200  
"UASK "ASKA" (Donetsk) 9 095 000 10
Joint Company "Salamandra-Ltava" (Poltava) 1 000 000 100
Bank "Credit-Dnepr" (Dnepropetrovsk) 26 600 000 1
JC "Busin" 2 500 000 100
Commercial bank "Capital" (Donetsk) 6 000 000 10
"Zakarpatnefteproduct" (Uzgorod) 22 500 000 0.25
JC "Avante" (Harkiv) 21 000 000 1 000
   
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