Private Equity
Africa’s largest private equity market plans to overhaul its financial regulatory system and expand its oversight of private equity activity.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Middle East private equity firm has entered into an alliance with GE Healthcare to develop a regional chain of healthcare centres.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Ahmed Heikal, founder of the Cairo-based private equity firm, has issued bullish predictions about the improvements Citadel can make to the railway. A regulatory commission is deciding whether to give Citadel majority ownership of the line and a decision could come as early as next week.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Abu Dhabi-based firm has acquired a 75% stake in Egypt's TechnoScan as it seeks to create a pan-Middle Eastern medical diagnostic and imaging business.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Citadel Capital has become a significant shareholder in Rift Valley Railways, which holds a concession to run a railway line between Kenya and Uganda.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Cairo-based firm has bought an additional 9% stake in the company from one of its LPs, Emirates International Investment.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Timothy Mohr and Robert Weiner of BDO Consulting share cautionary tales of misdeeds and alarming facts unearthed just before deal closings.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
The Sharia-compliant fund, a JV between Munich- and Boston-based TVM and Dubai-based Boston BioCapital, and will invest in the region’s healthcare services and life sciences sectors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Commitments to the Pan-African private equity firm, led by managing partner Kofi Bucknor, came just shy of its $500m target.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bill Green, the co-founder of a clean technology investment practice at VantagePoint Venture Partners, will lead Macquarie Capital Funds’ push into renewable energy infrastructure in North America. Macquarie currently has only a small portion of its infrastructure assets under management devoted to renewables.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
