Company: KYIV
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form Type: F-1
Source: 0001213900-25-085122
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Company: Kyivstar Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form: F-1
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 assurances to confirm that Russian nationals, including any beneficial owners of LetterOne, do not participate in the management of Kyivstar nor are they able to derive any benefits from VEON’s assets in Ukraine. •On October30, 2023, VEON announced that two appeals were filed with the relevant Kyiv courts, challenging the freezing of the corporate rights in Kyivstar and UTC, noting that corporate rights in Kyivstar and UTC belong exclusively to VEON, and that their full or partial freezing or seizure directly violates the rights of VEON and its international debt and equity investors, and requesting the lifting of the freezing of its corporate rights in Kyivstar and UTC. In December 2023, the court rejected the Company’s appeals. On June4, 2024, the CEO of VEON, in his capacity as a shareholder of VEON, filed a motion with Shevchenkivskiy District Court of Kyiv requesting cancellation of the freeze of corporate rights in the VEON group’s subsidiary Ukraine Tower Company. On June26, 2024, the motion was supplemented to request cancellation of the freezing of corporate rights in the VEON group’s other Ukrainian subsidiaries: Kyivstar, Kyivstar.Tech and Helsi Ukraine. VEON continued its significant government affairs efforts to protect our assets in Ukraine. After the successful lifting of the court freeze of Kyivstar’s shares on November29, 2024, VEON is working with its local custodian to remove all remaining restrictions on Kyivstar and its Ukrainian subsidiaries corporate rights. VEON is pursuing steps to meet the conditions required by the local custodian to lift the stipulated freeze. •On August14, 2025, VEON closed the previously announced business combination agreement between Kyivstar Group Ltd. and Cohen Circle. In connection with the business combination agreement, Kyivstar Group Ltd. acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of VEON Holdings B.V. from VEON Amsterdam B.V. Following the closing of the BCA, on August15, 2025, Kyivstar Group Ltd.’s Common Shares and Warrants commenced trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market (the “Listing”) under the symbols “KYIV” and “KYIVW”, respectively, making the Company the first and only pure -playUkrainian investment opportunity in U.S. stock markets. The Listing has broadened the Company’s US and international shareholder base with over 10% of the shares of its shareholder, Kyivstar