Creativ Group, one of the most successful players on the fats and oils market in Ukraine, has placed 23.4% of its shares among foreign portfolio investors, raising $30m. The transaction puts the company’s market capitalization at $128m.

Dragon Capital remains the top broker on Ukraine’s primary stock exchange, the PFTS, according to official results for the nine months of 2007 (9M07) released by the exchange.

Investment bank Dragon Capital has taken third place in Komp&nion magazine’s fifth-annual “10 Companies that Inspire” survey. The magazine presented the results in its latest edition, which came out this week.

Investment bank Dragon Capital has successfully advised Piraeus Bank of Greece in its acquisition of Kyiv-based International Commercial Bank. Dragon Capital acted as exclusive financial advisor to Piraeus Bank, which purchased a 99.6%-share in the mid-sized Ukrainian bank for $75.3m.

Dragon Capital, Ukraine’s largest investment bank, has helped realize the merger of household appliances and electronics retailers Byttehnika and Comfy, creating the country’s third-largest domestic appliance and electronics chain.

Open joint-stock company Sugar Union UkrRos (UkrRos), Ukraine’s #2 sugar producer in 2006, has successfully placed 20% of its shares in an IPO, raising $42m among foreign portfolio investors. The placement gives the company a market capitalization of $210.3m.

Financial newsmagazine Euromoney has named Dragon Capital as winner of its Best Equity House in Ukraine award for 2007, the fifth time the Kyiv-based investment bank has won the accolade.

Dragon Capital continues to outperform all other brokers on Ukraine’s primary stock exchange, the PFTS, based on official results for the first half of 2007 (1H07) released by the exchange this week.

Dragon Ukrainian Properties & Development Plc (“DUPD” or the “Company”), today announces the placing of its ordinary shares by way of an Initial Public Offering (‘IPO’).

PPF Investments and Vicus Limited have joined Cube Capital group in a joint venture to develop a 70,000 m2 Class A logistics facility near Kyiv, Ukraine.