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The largest investment company in Ukraine currently holds approximately 600,000 square meters in its real estate portfolio, down from its peak of 800,000 square meters, said Tomasz Fiala, the founder and CEO of Dragon Capital. He noted that since 2016, the company had expanded the portfolio to 800,000 square meters: 400,000 square meters of warehouses, 200,000 square meters of offices, and 200,000 square meters of shopping malls. However, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, three warehouses were destroyed. According

Investment company Dragon Capital, which invested about $700M in Ukraine between 2015 and 2021, in addition to reinvestment of several hundred million dollars more, plans to invest $100M in 2025, said company CEO Tomasz Fiala. This will be financed primarily with its own money and the equity capital of co-investors, while a smaller portion (up to 25%) will be borrowed. Of the $700M invested in 2015-2021, the share of debt financing was about $250M, of which 80% has already been

The country’s accession to the EU entails a sharp increase in private foreign direct investment, said Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital. “If you look at private investments in Poland, during the five years before joining the EU, they amounted to $3.7B per year; in the year of accession, they rose to $7B, and in the next five years – about $13B,” he said. The largest amount of total annual private investment in Ukraine amounted to $10B and, on average

The growth of Ukraine’s GDP in 2024 will slow to approximately 4% from almost 6% in 2023, with an increase in inflation to 8% from 5.1% last year. At the end of the year, the exchange rate will be ₴39 for $1, said Tomas Fiala, the head of investment company Dragon Capital. Among the positive factors, the investment banker noted the establishment of exports through ports on the Black Sea. Dragon Capital’s forecast suggests that the security situation will not

Tomas Fiala and Oleksandr Svishchov are close to acquiring the T.S.B. Firm’s permits allowing the extraction and sale of mineral waters in the Lviv region. T.S.B. has three valid special permits to produce iodine-bromine industrial water and mineral water from two fields and controls the Naftusya mineral water plant. On June 23, the company Truskavetska was registered in Ukraine, the ultimate owner of which is Tomas Fiala – Dragon Capital. On August 31, the Lev closed non-diversified venture corporate investment

The reason for this reevaluation is the longer duration of the hot war with Russia than previously expected, explained the founder and CEO of the company, Tomas Fiala. Dragon Capital’s previous forecast predicted that security risks would decrease in the first half 2024. This does not mean that the war would be entirely over, but with decreased hostilities the company expected 8% GDP growth by the end of 2024. “Now we expect the war to last the whole of next

According to the CEO of Dragon Capital, Tomas Fiala, the company is studying the possibility of acquiring the bank if Ukrainian authorities decide to sell it. Bloomberg notes that after the nationalization of Sense Bank, the state’s share in Ukrainian banking assets increased to approximately 56%. This raised the IMF’s concern, which called on Ukraine to sell government-controlled banks. Fiala believes that the government of Ukraine should sell Sense Bank as soon as possible because it is the fifth government-owned

They will develop Unex-Bank as a separate business, as an independent universal bank, which will service both retail clients, and those in the corporate sector, namely SMEs, said the founder of Dragon Capital, Tomas Fiala.

The A-class business center is located in downtown Lviv, at the intersection of Zelena and Pymonenko in the Sykhiv district. The total area of 18,766 square meters and parking for 102 vehicles. “This is our second business center in Lviv and the 14th in Dragon Capital’s office real estate portfolio in Ukraine,” said CEO of Dragon Capital, Tomas Fiala.

Fiala, through Dragon Capital companies, is buying 75%. Svitek, former CEO of Alfa-Bank Group in Ukraine, is buying 25%. The Central Bank ranks UNEX Bank as the 63rd largest of Ukraine’s 73 banks, with total assets of $32 million.