Private Equity
Sales to strategic buyers accounted for half of the 118 realisations in Africa in the last five years, a new study suggests, helping PE achieve returns nearly twice those of regional public markets.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The UK-focused firm has sold Dominion Gas, an Aberdeen-based oilfield services business, to New York-listed Praxair, for approximately £100m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The sale of Uganda’s fifth largest bank, which started as a DFI to become a fully-fledged corporate and retail lender, values the company at nearly $100m.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
In 2012, a merger between two very different fund managers created the Abraaj Group. In April, Philip Borel spoke with several senior partners in the new business about the strategy they’re seeking to execute
10 min read · 20 September 2013
The $102m investment in an Egyptian snack food business comes as the emerging market specialist is wrapping up fundraising for its fourth global fund.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
The US firm has paid €212m for the engine maker in the latest sign of a gradual return of deal activity in Italy.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
Billed as the largest FMCG buyout in Sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa, the deal brings the total invested by the firm on the continent to $2.2bn.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The East African firm, which is investing its first blind pool vehicle, is looking to sponsor fast-growing businesses in the continent’s less trodden markets.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The outlook for listed private equity is healthier than it has been for some time. So why aren’t more investors buying? And is there anything managers can do about it?
10 min read · 19 September 2013
First came the financial crisis, then the Arab Spring. The MENA region has had to deal with crises on several fronts over the last few years. So how well is the region’s private equity industry picking itself up after the turmoil?
7 min read · 19 September 2013
