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EMPEA chief joins AbraajSarah Alexander has led the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association since its launch in 2004. The organisation is searching for a new chief executive.
- Latin America timber fund targets $300m
Earth Capital Partners' Forestry Fund I is targeting 12% IRRs through the acquisition of established plantations and agricultural land.
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- EMP Global makes senior hires
The emerging markets private equity specialist, acquired by BMB Group earlier in the week, has hired Chun Min Pang, the former head of Aureos China and Samir Soota, co-founder of investment services firm Principia Management.
- BMB grows emerging markets footprint
The Brunei-based alternatives manager has bought EMP Global, an emerging markets private equity firm. EMP's heavy-hitting chairman, former World Bank chief and Pakistani prime minister Moeen Qureshi, joins BMB’s senior management.
- Abris closes debut fund on €320m
The firm, which focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, was formed last year by former Advent director George Swirski and former Copernicus Capital managing partner Neil Milne.
- ECP buys Djibouti salt producer for $30m
The pan-African investor, nearing full deployment of its first independently raised fund, is betting that the East African nation’s biggest saltwater lake can produce four million tons of salt by 2012. The fresh capital will be used for buying equipment and facility renovations.
- EMP forced to sell Bolivian energy investment
The emerging markets-focussed private equity firm has sold 10 percent stake in pipeline company Transredes at a profit for for $46.6m, in compliance with Bolivia’s nationalisation of the oil and gas sector.
- EMP completes Mexican telecom exit
The private equity firm’s Latin America Infrastructure Fund has now fully exited Mexican telecom start-up Axtel, following the company’s $345m 2005 IPO.
- ECP set to raise another fund after rapidly investing $500m(4)
Emerging Capital Partners, the pan-African buyout firm led by Tom Gibian, which started the trend towards regional funds on the continent, looks set to hit the fundraising trail just months after closing its latest fund.