Dragon Capital (company)
Dragon Capital is a Ukrainian investment management company founded by Czech businessman and partners in 2000 in Kyiv. It works in the sphere of financial services; provides a full range of investment banking and brokerage services, private investment, asset management for institutional, corporate and private clients. In 2016-2020, Dragon Capital, together with its foreign partners, invested more than $600 million in real estate, of which more than $500 million are Kyiv and Kyiv region. An investment partner, among others, is the American financier, stock market investor George Soros. The company sells war bonds of Ukraine. History The company was founded by Tomas Fiala in cooperation with partners in 2000 in Kyiv. In 2007-2017, Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest banks, owned a minority stake in Dragon Capital. In 2017 Dragon Capital bought back shares from Goldman Sachs although the latter acquired 25% stake in New Ukraine PE Holding Limited. In 2008, Dragon Capital, together with East Capital Bering Ukraine Fund, acquired 70% of Chumak's (food company) shares, but sold its stake in 2019. In April 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a search at the company office. They were looking for Russian Stakhanovets software on employees' computers. Then,