Includes license requirements for key professional services that are open to U.S. service providers.
Last Published: 8/6/2019

Licensing requirements for all types of businesses in Ukraine are governed by the Law On Licensing of Types of Business Activities. This law requires licenses for 33 types of business activities, many of which are professional services. Among them:

  • Granting guarantees and suretyships
  • Financial leasing
  • Factoring
  • Trust management of financial assets
  • Specific types of insurance as defined by the legislation
  • Lending funds with their further return
  • Granting loans including financial credits
  • Administration of private pension funds
  • Administration of financial assets for purchase of goods for groups of purchasers
  • Property management for financing constructions or real estate transactions
  • Professional activity in securities market
  • Transportation of passengers, dangerous goods and hazardous waste by river, sea, road, rail and air transport, international carriage of passengers and goods by road vehicles;
  • Security guard activities
  • Tour operator activity
  • Brokering in employment abroad

Prepared by our U.S. Embassies abroad. With its network of 108 offices across the United States and in more than 75 countries, the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce utilizes its global presence and international marketing expertise to help U.S. companies sell their products and services worldwide. Locate the U.S. Commercial Service trade specialist in the U.S. nearest you by visiting http://export.gov/usoffices.