Where we operate

Ukraine, Western, Central and Eastern Europe,
Middle East

Successful projects in more than 5 countries in Central and Eastern Europe
Over $90 mn of attracted financing for clients
Over 5 successful M&A transactions for past 4 years with total volume exceeding $90 mn
Over 5 projects in operations improvement for past 3 years

What we do

Established back in 2012, AIM Group provides international investors with advice on business acquisitions, as well as local companies with advice on raising capital, strategic matters, restructuring, and corporate finance. We reveal and implement the right solution, at the right time, in the right way.

AIM Group is dedicated towards providing international leadership, solving problems and creating value for companies across industries and around the region

We work as advisers, interim leaders and partners

who tell you what you need to know,

not always what you want to hear.

Who are our clients

Private Equity Funds
Asset management companies
Medium and large business
Entrepreneurs

AIM Group Experts

Experts of AIM Group are focused on designing and executing strategic M&A as well as financing solutions for our clients and act as a trusted partner.

We act as a trusted partner, taking a long-term and independent view on the challenges they face.

How we help

We advise our clients on the best possible strategy, and focus on attaining top quality.

We offer insight and practical recommendations to enable CEOs and other company leaders to protect and increase value within their organizations.

Our distinct perspective enables us to achieve outstanding results for our clients and act as their most trusted advisers in the long-term.

Our transactions

Our expertise

We are well recognized for our ability to deliver transactions covering multiple jurisdictions, cultures and parties.

Deep on-the-ground, real-time market knowledge. We advise on core CEE markets and on many of the region's complex and industry-defining transactions. This provides us with an unrivalled perspective.

Investment Banking

Our team of senior bankers is deeply involved from start to finish in every single assignment. This means we can advise our clients on the best possible strategy, and focus on quality to achieve smooth execution.

We are well recognized for our ability to deliver transactions covering multiple jurisdictions, cultures and parties.

• Mergers and joint ventures

• Buy-side advisory

• Sell-side advisory

• Demergers and spin-offs

• Strategic alliances JV

• Privatizations

• Shareholder reorganization

• Fairness opinion

• Corporate governance issues

Our equity advisory specialists have vast experience of negotiating the best possible terms for clients, and in executing deals to their completion in line with terms and conditions agreed earlier. We use our independent position and deep market knowledge to advise our clients on all possible options, on market performance, timing, business structure and corporate governance issues.

• IPOs

• Share issues

• Reverse takeovers

• Convertible bonds

• Preparing the equity story

• Market and investor analysis

Our track record includes highly complex transformation assignments. We use our in-depth experience to find and construct creative and innovative solutions for our clients. As independent advisers we have no conflicts of interest or preferences for specific debt solutions or capital providers. We retain our ability to see right across all debt markets and counterparties. This means we can provide our clients with the best possible advice and get the best possible terms.

Debt advisory:

• Refinancing existing debt

• Supporting acquisitions and funding development

• Bank, bonds, alternative and structured finance

• Credit ratings

Restructuring:

• Lender negotiations

• Recapitalisation

• Raising capital

• Exchange offers

• Distressed M&A and special situations

• Creditor representation

Corporate perfomance improvement

We offer that same acumen, those same skills, and that same wide-ranging experience to help good companies become great ones, and to help distressed companies return to creating value.

• Strategic financial consulting

• Capitalisation strategy

• Financial planning, reporting, and analysis

• Liquidity Management

• Balance Sheet optimization

• Accounting process enhancement

• Investor relations

Our comprehensive experience enables us to gain a detailed understanding of investor behaviour, optimal deal structures, performance of key market participants and the latest market trends.

Our pure advisory business model enables us to focus solely on achieving the best possible result for our clients and minimizing risks for them.

• Valuation

• Due Diligence

• Fairness Opinion

• Takeover defences

• Corporate Governance

With our implementation skills honed from extensive experience of restructuring AIM Group helps CEOs and Boards to drive sustained and substantial improvement initiatives at both a scale and pace that conventional approaches cannot match.

• Identification of operational performance gaps versus the industry and competitors

• Financial statement review

• Liquidity Enhancement

• Balance Sheet optimization

• Capitalisation strategy

• Business case for specific initiatives to increase shareholder value

• Corporate governance and board composition review

In our experience, there is no situation more critical than a struggling organization without solid, proven leadership.

We know the questions to ask and can identify roadblocks to success. We take responsibility for initiating as well as implementing corrective plans, while at the same time communicating with all stakeholders.

• Interim CFO

• Interim Financial Controller

• Interim Investment Director

• Interim Internal Auditor

• Interim Investor Relations Director

We help corporate boards to address the expanding marketplace expectations relating to their oversight responsibilities..

• Board practice benchmarking

• Board and committee performance assessments

• Board development programs on topics such as risk oversight, crisis management and executive compensation

Our industry expertise

AIM Group operates a regionally integrated network of industry sector specialists.

Our dedicated sector experts possess global awareness of the dynamics of each particular industry, designed to complement our local market knowledge. It’s our way of ensuring we offer each client the best possible solution.

Energy

Agriculture

Manufacturing

Retail

Pharmaceuticals

Telecommunications, Media and Technology

Transportation and logistics

Financial services

Real Estate

Our team

Pavel Prysiazhniuk


Managing Partner

Pavel Prysiazhniuk is a founding partner with over 15 years of industry specific experience. Possesses extensive operational and financial expertise gained in a number of board level and senior executive roles within businesses operating in the Media, Telecom and IT industries.

Pavel has gained wide expertise in management consulting, companies operations, M&A transaction and post M&A integration.

Pavel Prysiazhniuk


Managing Partner

Pavel Stolayev


Director

Pavel has more than 9 years of experience in the financial services sector working for such companies as DTEK, EY and Concorde Capital where he managed or was deeply involved in successful execution of various transactions.

He has a proven track record in more than 16 projects in the CIS region, including the mining and metal, agriculture, telecommunications, oil and gas industries.

Pavel is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Pavel Stolayev


Director

Yuriy Lypka


Director

Yuriy has over 9 years of experience in financial services, namely at EY and Concorde Capital where he managed and successfully closed M&A transactions in Europe and Ukraine.

He has a proven track record in more than 15 projects in financial diagnostics of companies in various industries throughout the CIS

Is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and CFA Program participant.

Yuriy Lypka


Director

Our partners

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Our location

Kiev

Andriiv'skyi descent 32, 04070, Kiev

+380 44 232 13 22

+380 97 977 74 55