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DPI invests $35m in household appliances firm, B.TECH, Egypt

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Development Partners International (DPI), one of the leading African private equity specialists with US$1.1bn under management, has through its ADP II fund concluded an investment and strategic partnership with Egypt’s leading household appliances and consumer electronics retailer, B.TECH, that will see the fund investing EGP300mn in the company. B.TECH operates a fast-growing portfolio of 67 retail stores across 22 governorates in Egypt with a network of 362 wholesale dealers…

Private Equity | Ethos Capital’s JSE Listing to Fuel Private-Equity

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South Africa, Capital Markets in Africa: EPE Capital Partners intends to raise as much as 2 billion rand ($140 million) in a stock placement and Johannesburg listing that will allow shareholders to invest in a portfolio run by sub-Saharan Africa’s largest private-equity firm. Ethos Capital, as the listing entity is known, will sell as many as 200 million shares on Aug. 5 to selected investors and institutions, including Coronation Asset Management (Pty) Ltd, Abax Investments (Pty)…

PRIVATE EQUITY AFRICA: GROWING AFRICA’S VENTURES THROUGH SUSTAINABLE INVESTING

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Anne Keppler, Vice President, Corporates & Funds Africa Equity & Mezzanine, DEG Regional Office Southern Africa. Anne Keppler’s team is responsible for structuring and managing DEG’s direct equity and fund investment portfolio as well as structuring mezzanine solutions for its private sector clients on the continent. She talks to Capital Markets in Africa about some DEG’s investment and activities on the continent. To start off, could you introduce the DEG to our…

Why Pioneering Private Investors are Increasingly Critical to Africa’s Development

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Africa has long been a place for pioneers. With more than ten percent of the world’s population, and less than two percent of the world’s GDP, Africa needs far more investment that it receives. The challenge of identifying strong investments in a massive continent that is a complex array of 54 jurisdictions and even more languages, cultures, and political systems, has kept many private equity investors away. The Overseas…

Recent Private Equity Deal Activity in Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: There have been a number of recent investments in 2015 into private healthcare and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria and into agriculture in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, and into life insurance and financial services business across West Africa, particularly Ghana. Telecommunications businesses across Africa also remain attractive. Regrettably a number of deals have collapsed or been put on hold (often indefinitely) due to the commodity slump (in particular the low oil…

Harnessing Maghreb’s Growth Potentials: A Private Equity Perspective

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Very often investors wonder whether investing in the Maghreb is beneficial and delivers high returns. There are several reasons why this region is more attractive than other emerging markets in the world. In the Maghreb countries, future growth expectations tend to be high, competition levels are rather low and markets relatively stable. Also, there is usually a strong pipeline of good companies in fundamentally good sectors. Another important element…

Embracing Local Capital Markets: An Alternative Approach to Hedging Currency Risk in Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: With the appearance of stalwarts of the global private equity industry in Africa such as Carlyle, the Abraaj Group and Temasek, the outlook for private equity flows into the continent should be promising. The reality for these fund managers, is that the majority of growth being created is in local currency and as such their returns are impacted by volatility in exchange rates between local currency and the US…

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