investment consultancy in ukraine liudmyla ginner
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Liudmyla GinnerJuly 2015
MAJOR CONSTRAINTS FOR THE INVESTMENT IN UKRAINIAN FARMLAND
LOCAL SPECIFICS• access to local authorities and good contacts with villages • agricultural knowledge: crop rotation and growth • local staffing, management, and control – multiple cases of fraud
SOLUTIONOn-going support of the long-term investment by the independent third party with • strong local expertise• network in formal and informal circles• experience in analysis of “arrangements” on siphoning off/theft of assets; reveal of shady
counteragents, non-standard business or financial transactions
SSC KIEVINVESTMENT CONSULTANCY
Independent investigation Technical due diligence of acquisition targets
Multipurpose marketing analysis Strategy verification and assessment
Structuring and composition of business plans Analysis and evaluation of competitors business models
Organization and structuring company`s financials according to international IFRS, GAAP standards Additional Services
for: private investors, investment funds, equity holdersour company guarantees 100% confidentiality and non-disclosure of information obtained in the course of
cooperation
In the course of a financial investigation our expertise enables to establish:
Objective picture of the company’s financial performance Accuracy of financial and management statements presented to the owner
Objective information on the condition of land bank, validity of leases and their registration in Urban Planning and Land Commission
Deals closed on knowingly disadvantageous terms to the personal benefit of staff Usage of budget and financing not as initially intended
Unauthorized payments Purchase of inexistent services
Overstated inputs prices and understated product prices
THE EXPERTISE: Liudmyla Ginner
30 years of experience in operational and financial areas on all levels from single-production units to large multi-national corporations;
strong network within state, non-governmental and private institutions;
unique on Ukrainian market;focused on successful long-term investment strategy;based on principles of honesty, responsibility and commitment to the
common value;Among the partners are SGRF, SSC, large private investors (non-
disclosed)*.
*references available upon request
WHY to INVEST in UKRAINIAN FARMLAND• 25% of the world “black soil” - 32.5 m ha of arable land• typical farm unit size of 5,000 ha+ (5 times the EU average) leads to economies of scale• Ukraine is world largest exporter of sunflower oil and one of the biggest exporters of corn, barley and wheat
FARMLAND IS AN ASSET THAN OVEPERFORMS ANY REAL ESTATE CLASS
Resource: Savills Research and publicly available data
population will reach 10bn till 2050farmland will be in deficit to feed increasing number of people
Resource: United Nations
GLOBAL FARMLAND PRICES
Resource: Bloomberg
Resource: World Bank
Resource: Fisher and Shan 2010
Ukraine could potentially boost its
grain production to
130-180M tons per annum or 3x
current production levels and
become the
world’s largest grain exporter
BEST REGIONS FOR FARMLAND IN UKRAINE
Resource: Ukrstat
• De-facto indefinite ban on sale of agricultural land:
• Moratorium specifies that it can’t be lifted “until the adoption of law on turnover of agricultural land but no earlier than 2016”.
• Average size of land plot is 4ha;
• All fields, except for those with state property, are divided into small plots, often with number of deceased owners;
• Average rent is $50 per hectare.
REGULATIONS
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OPPORTUNITY!
THANK YOULiudmyla Ginner [email protected]
Anastasia Gutsol [email protected]