Identifying opportunities and protecting your investments

Investing in Ukraine and the adjacent geographies has proved to bring high-yield returns. Ukraine has signed over 70 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and a dozen of international instruments paving investment-friendly legal environment.

The country offers numerous options for your investments ranging from acquisitions of flourishing ventures in (non-)/conventional industries to distressed and yet prospective assets and enterprises, including through privatisations.

Since 2015, Ukraine has been actively engaged in promoting transparent privatisation. However, the process has truly kickstarted only recently, after a series of reforms were undertaken to counteract related risks and secure investors’ protection.

Through privatisation Ukraine seeks to attract direct investments and to profit from asset sales and subsequent business tax revenues. Currently, there are around 4 thousand state-owned enterprises in Ukraine, of which over 2 thousand enterprises continue to operate though demonstrate poor performance and may be available for privatisation.

Boulders actively monitors the ongoing privatisation-related developments and identifies property that is being prepared for privatisation. Also, our lawyers have counselled some of the largest investors in the CEE and CAS, as well as international PE and VC investors, including by structuring their investments into the region subject to enabling legal protections, and alongside with overseas counsels continue to deliver cutting-edge remedies to the investors and their capital.

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