Joint ventures

A joint venture partner will have the financing and will often have the right expertise, both of which will be needed to make your company a successful, state-of-the-art business. And they will have the financing available to create a marketing plan which, along with your knowledge of the local market, will make for an effective marketing strategy.

With our contacts in Europe, the USA, and Asia, we can find and qualify a suitable joint venture partner for your business. This of course often requires us to convince potential joint venture partners that there is profit to be made in the Ukraine and more specifically by a joint venture with your company. And this often requires that the potential joint venture partner be convinced that they can make money in this area of the world what with some of the problems that present themselves here. But we have had more than a decade of experience working in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union so we know what kind of information companies are looking for to feel secure and we can help you supply it.

Potential joint venture partners looking to invest in this area of the world also often need to be convinced that their investment will be safe on some level. There are all sorts of stories out there that the markets of Ukraine and Russia are high risk markets for investment. Standard and Poor's, for example, rates Ukraine as a BB for investment-not as high as the countries of the EU and the US. It has been revised up from a much lower rate. Companies looking to invest in Ukraine will often need to feel secure that their investment will be solid. A potential joint venture partner will need to be given confidence that any investment here will be protected and that any profits on that investment can be repatriated out of the Ukraine easily. We have enough experience working in this area of the world so that we can help provide that confidence.

In sum, we can offer your company the following:

1. We can search for and qualify an appropriate joint venture partner from the US, the EU or Asia, depending. We have the contacts worldwide to be able to do this.

2. We have experience in putting these types of ventures together so that our expertise will be available for you to do this the most effectively.

3. We have the legal expertise available to put the joint venture together in the most advantageous way possible.

4. We can serve as a type of translator or go between in making sure that your expectations and the expectations of the joint venture partner are mutually understood. Misunderstandings may occur especially between companies from different cultural perspectives and these can undermine the most solid joint venture projects.

5. We have marketing expertise that can be drawn on to help create not only the perfect marketing plan but the correct marketing mix for a given market. We also have expertise that can be drawn on to ensure that the pricing decision contributes most effectively to overall company profitability.

6. We offer senior consultants and director level personnel for you to deal with to help solve any problem that may arise.

In short, Ukraine Consult, Inc. can find a joint venture partner and can help you and that partner create the most advantageous business possible.