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STATE PROPERTY FUND NAMES TERMS OF TENDERS TO SELECT INVESTMENT ADVISORS FOR PRIVATIZATION

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has made announcements on holding tenders to select investment advisors to prepare PJSC Azovmash, OJSC Oriana, PJSC Sumykhimprom, NJSC Ukragroleasing, Kherson combined heat and power plant (CHPP), Dniprovska CHPP, PJSC Kryvy Rih CHPP and Severodonetsk CHPP for privatization.
The announcements were published in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.
The tenders will be held in two stages. The first stage is to complete on September 7.
The second stage of the tenders to select investment advisors for Azovmash (50% shares), Kherson combined heat and power plant (99.8328% of the share capital), Dniprovska CHPP (99.9277%), Kryvy Rih CHPP and Severodonetsk CHPP will take place on September 17.
The second stage of the tender to select investment advisors for Sumykhimprom (99.9952%), Oriana (99.9988%) and Ukragroleasing (100%) will take place on September 18, 2018.

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STATE PROPERTY FUND GETS FIRST BIDS FROM ADVISERS ON PRIVATIZATION

A number of companies have applied for tenders called by the State Property Fund (SPF) of Ukraine to select advisors for the privatization of insulin producer Indar, President Hotel and Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant with July 20 set as the deadline for applications, an informed source in the government has told Interfax-Ukraine. “There are applications, and there are many of them,” the source said without giving details.
The SPF’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine that it was not authorized to disclose details at the current stage, advising waiting for the results of the tenders. As was reported, the SPF late in June called tenders to hire advisers to sell 100% of Kyiv-based PJSC United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), 70.7016% of PrJSC Indar, 100% of PrJSC President Hotel (all three are based in Kyiv), and two wholly state-owned enterprises: Krasnolymanska Coal Mining Company in the town of Rodynske, Donetsk region, and Kharkiv-based Electrotyazhmash Plant (ETM), as well as 99.5667% of PJSC Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPZ) in Odesa region.
The deadline for Indar, President Hotel and OPZ is July 20 inclusively. The first stages of the tenders are scheduled for July 26, and the second stages for July 30.
In case of UMCC and ETM, the deadline for applications is July 23, and tenders will be held in two stages: on July 27 and on July 31.
Ukraine on July 12 met with representatives from the ‘big four’ auditors, namely Ernst&Young, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, as well as Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, ICU, Concorde Capital, Dragon Capital to present details of tenders to select advisers on large-scale privatization,.
The adviser’s tasks include an analysis of the economic, technical and financial performance of an enterprise; bringing the main indicators of its financial statements in line with international accounting standards; carrying out audits (financial, environmental and others), implementation of due diligence and a SWOT analysis of the assets, including assessment of the competitive positions in Ukraine and international markets.

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UKRAINE’S STATE PROPERTY FUND CALLS TENDERS TO HIRE ADVISERS TO CONDUCT PRIVATIZATION

Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF) has called first six tenders to hire a privatization adviser to prepare the sale of six out of 22 enterprises approved by the Ukrainian government for privatization this year. In particular, tenders were called to hire advisers to sell 99.5667% of PJSC Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPZ) in Odesa region and 100% of Kyiv-based PJSC United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), the SPF said in announcements in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii privatization bulletin on Monday.
Other four tenders will be called for advisers to sell 70.7016% of PrJSC Indar and 100% of PrJSC President Hotel (both are based in Kyiv), and two wholly state-owned enterprises: Krasnolymanska Coal Mining Company in the town of Rodynske, Donetsk region, and Kharkiv-based Electrotyazhmash Plant (ETM).
The deadline for Indar, President Hotel and OPZ is July 20 inclusively. The first stages of the tenders are scheduled for July 26, and the second stages for July 30.
Applicants for UMCC, Krasnolymanska and ETM are to send their bids before July 23. The tenders will be held in two phases: on July 27 and July 31.
In all cases, the fixed sum of an adviser’s fee is set at no more than 0.5% of an enterprise’s state-owned assets. In case of the sale of an asset, the size of the variable part is up to 2% of the value of the sold asset, it said.
As was reported, Ukraine’s Cabinet late in May 2018 published a list of large-sized enterprises subject to privatization this year. It includes 23 enterprises: five regional power distribution companies, Centrenergo, Turboatom, Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine (ZTMC), and Sumykhimprom. Only an adviser on Centrenergo has been selected as of now. It is Ernst&Young, which on June 19 submitted its status report.

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STATE PROPERTY FUND ESTIMATES POTENTIAL REVENUES FROM SMALL-SCALE PRIVATIZATION AT UAH 1.5-1.7 BLN

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) estimates the potential amount of proceeds from small-scale privatization at UAH 1.5-1.7 billion, Acting Head of the SPF Vitaliy Trubarov has said. “Maksym Nefyodov Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade expects that we will receive UAH 3 billion from small privatization. According to our modest estimates, the amount may not be so optimistic, it will be UAH 1.5-1.7 billion,” he said on the air of Channel Five.
At the same time, he noted that there are fears of failure to implement the plan for large-scale privatization this year. “Is there a chance that we will not fulfill the planned task? Yes, unfortunately, there is such a chance, because we lost half a year due to the fact that privatization of some of the objects could not start on time, and some of the objects fell out of the list,” Trubarov said.
In particular, he noted that the list of large-scale privatization for 2018 does not contain a number of large agrarian objects. “For example, the Agrarian Fund or the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine. They perform a certain role related to food security, which now does not allow putting these objects up for sale. At the request of the ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, these objects have been removed from this list for the time being and transferred to 2019,” he said.

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STATE PROPERTY FUND TO HOLD TENDER TO SELECT ADVISOR FOR PRIVATIZATION OF ODESA PORT-SIDE PLANT

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) will hold a tender to select an advisor for privatization of public joint-stock company Odesa Port-Side Plant, acting Head of the SPF Vitaliy Trubarov has said. “The Odesa Port-Side Plant will be privatized under the new law with the attraction of an advisor. Now we are working to prepare for a tender to select an advisor, as soon as the Economic Development and Trade Ministry selects their candidate to be a member of the commission, we would switch to the creation of tasks for the advisor and tender conditions,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Trubarov said that synchronously the fund jointly with international advisors is looking for ways to restructure debts of the company.
As reported, Public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz has appealed to the National Police of Ukraine asking to interfere in the situation with rapidly growing debts of Odesa Port-Side Plant.
According to Ukrtransgaz, the amount of debt owed to Ukrtransgaz for the services of gas balancing for the needs of the Odesa Port-Side Plant, which was provided to the Ukrainian Energy Company, increased by another UAH 500 million only in April. In addition, the plant has its own debt to the company in the amount of UAH 473 million.

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LIST OF LARGE PRIVATIZATION IS PLANNED TO BE APPROVED ON APRIL 27

The government of Ukraine plans on April 27, 2018 approve a list of large facilities with assets worth over UAH 250 million for the privatization in 2018, acting Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Vitaliy Trubarov has said. “At a meeting of the government to be devoted to the privatization scheduled for April 27 we will receive the finished list of large privatization and approve the requirements,” he said. Trubarov recalled that according to the new law on privatization that took effect on March 7, all facilities are divided into two groups: large and small. The fund makes decisions on the lists of small privatization. For this year the fund has approved a list of 660 small facilities.
The SPF head said that the sale of facilities in line with the new law will start after May holidays.
Trubarov also expressed opinion that in the coming five or seven years large Ukrainian companies like Ukrzaliznytsia or Ukrposhta would not be placed to the privatization lists.

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