The American-Ukrainian Reconstruction Investment Fund, which has a starting capital of 150 million dollars, plans to act as a minority investor in mining projects alongside other partners. This was stated by Yegor Perelygin, a member of the fund’s supervisory board and Deputy Minister of Economy, during the United by Mining forum.
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Fund as a Market Maker in the Critical Raw Materials Market
“We are building the system in such a way that the fund will become a market maker in the critical raw materials market, that it will be a market maker in the mining industry, and will be able to attract co-investors thanks to its seed capital. The fund wants to see strategic partners,” he noted.
According to Yegor Perelygin, the fund intends to back every dollar invested in a promising project with an additional 2–4 dollars of investment attracted from other market participants. This approach, as emphasized by the Deputy Minister, will allow the fund to become a reliable tool for ensuring stability and trust among potential investors, including large international companies that previously did not consider Ukraine as an investment location.
Advantages for Strategic Investors
The investment fund is also capable of ensuring stability in the realization of extracted products by offering long-term contracts. This will create additional guarantees for strategic partners and promote capital inflow into the Ukrainian mining sector, especially in the extraction of critically important raw materials.