PricewaterhouseCoopers has opened an office in Lviv

10 July 2008. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is very proud to announce that in July 2008 it has officially opened its third Ukrainian office in Lviv, the business and geographical centre of Western Ukraine. PwC has been actively working in the region for many years, serving Ukrainian and international companies. This is part of the firm’s strategy to be easily accessible to its clients and to attract Ukraine’s outstanding professional resources, not only in Kiev, but throughout the country.

"For us, it was an obvious decision to open an office in Lviv, and we had a number of compelling reasons to do so”, commented Boris Krasnyansky, Managing Partner of PwC in Ukraine. “We expect rapid growth in Western Ukraine due to its proximity to the EU and the scale of inbound investment in the region. We already have a considerable number of clients requesting our services in this part of the country. This will only increase in the near future, due to Ukraine’s WTO accession, Free Trade Agreement with the EU and the expected investment boom leading up to the Euro 2012 Football Championship.”

Krzysztof Lipka, the partner responsible for the PwC office in Lviv, said: "We want this office, as well as our other offices, to grow quickly. We think cities like Lviv offer a great environment for this. Lviv and the region always supply extremely talented and hard working people. We want these exceptional people to work with us.”

The contact information for PwC’s office in Lviv is: 72 Turgeneva Street, Third floor, Tehnopark LZTA Business Centre, tel: +38 032 242 5305, www.pwc.com/ua

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