Sayenko Kharenko acted as legal partner to uSupport project in the activities on providing the most precise information about the ІТ potential of Ukraine in terms of export oriented services. Sayenko Kharenko’s extensive experience in the IT and telecommunications sector will allow to increase the credibility of IT companies represented in the uSupport catalog.
Both uSupport and Sayenko Kharenko agree on the importance of steady development of IT and telecommunications sector in Ukraine, and unite efforts to make the processes of search for IT providers easy and substantial, keeping the search results reliable.
Sayenko Kharenko enjoys global reputation as a leading Ukrainian transactional and dispute resolution law firm. The firmspecializes in complex crossborder and local matters and regularly handles the largest and most challenging transactions involving Ukraine. The firm advises a diversified pool of clients in the IT and telecommunications sector on the most sophisticated financial and M&A transactions, as well as regulatory and antitrust issues. Sayenko Kharenko’s IT group is comprised of lawyers with industry specific expertise who represent all major practice areas of the firm.
uSupport project is a web catalog created to support the IT branch in Ukraine. The main tasks are: to gather the most exact information about the spectrum of IT outsourcing companies in Ukraine and the services they provide, and to provide the most precise information about the ІТ potential of Ukraine in terms of export oriented services. More than 70 IToutsourcing companies have already registered in the catalog.
American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) and uSupport project will cooperate in promotion of Ukraine’s IT-outsourcing and BPO industry. The parties agreed to cooperate on purpose of creation required conditions for sustainable development and growth of the IT industry of Ukraine, improve the investment climate in IT industry of Ukraine, deem it necessary to enter into this Memorandum of Cooperation.
The national statistic service of Ukraine reports 15,676 economically active firms as having IT and telecommunications as their primary field activity.
The majority of them - more than 6,000 - are registered in Kyiv, and the number of IT professionals working in Kyiv is more than 17,500. The total number of IT professionals working in Ukraine is more than 200,000, and 15,000 professionals are supplied to the industry every year by university graduates.