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Bamboo Finance Reaches a First Close for Bamboo Financial Inclusion Fund II (Global)
Bamboo Finance, a private equity firm specializing in investing in business models that benefit low-income communities in emerging markets, has reached a first close for Bamboo Financial Inclusion Fund II with US$31 million in capital commitments. Investors in the first close included financial services company TIAA-CREF and asset management company AXA Investment Managers. The fund will make equity investments in… Read More
Wolfensohn Capital Partners Partially Exits DCB Bank (Asia)
Emerging markets-focused private equity firm Wolfensohn Capital Partners (WCP) has partially exited its stake in India-based lender DCB Bank in open market transactions on the National Stock Exchange. On 15 April, WCP sold 2.32 million shares—about a 0.8 percent stake in the company—for INR121.73 (approximately US$1.94) apiece in a transaction totaling INR282 million (approximately US$4.5 million). In the first quarter… Read More
Vital Capital Exits Two Infrastructure Projects in Angola (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Vital Capital, an impact investing firm primarily focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, has exited two Angola-based infrastructure projects: Sumbe-Gabela-Waku Kungo, an electricity transmission line project, and Water For All, a potable water distribution project. Cumulatively, the two exits yielded a reported IRR of over 24 percent. Financial details of the transactions, which were structured through Vital Capital Fund, were not disclosed. Read More
Equity International, BlackRock and Altan Capital Invest in Grupo Acosta Verde (Latin America)
Grupo Acosta Verde, a Mexico-based developer, owner and manager of shopping centers, has received funding from global real estate investors Equity International and Altan Capital, global asset manager BlackRock and other undisclosed investors. The company has developed 35 retail properties since 1992 and currently manages 26 shopping centers, 11 of which it owns. Financial details of the transaction were not… Read More
ALLVP Invests in Médica Santa Carmen (Latin America)
Médica Santa Carmen, a Mexico-based operator of a network of healthcare clinics, has raised US$7 million in a round of funding from Mexico-focused healthcare venture capital firm Antoni & Lelo de Larrea Venture Partners (ALLVP), as well as the Fondo de Impacto Social of Nacional Monte de Piedad, a Mexico-based non-profit lender. ALLVP’s investment was structured through Venture Innovation Fund… Read More
Asia Alternatives Closes Its Fourth Fund with US$1.8 Billion in Capital Commitments (Asia)
Asian private equity fund of funds Asia Alternatives Management has held a final close with more than US$1.8 billion in commitments for Asia Alternatives Capital Partners IV (AACP IV) and its related fund vehicles (collectively Fund IV). AACP IV—the largest of the funds–along with its sleeve fund AACP IV Ex-Japan Investors, focused on investments outside of Japan, accounted for US$1… Read More
Templeton Asset Management Leads a Funding Round for Huy Vietnam Group (Asia)
Vietnam-based restaurant operator Huy Vietnam Group has raised US$15 million in a Series C investment round led by Templeton Asset Management, a financial services subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments. Other investors in the round included private equity firm Welkin Capital, as well as family office Prosperous Alliance. Templeton’s investment in the round was structured through Templeton Strategic Emerging Markets Fund… Read More
SCL Energia Activa Raises US$247 Million for Americas Energy Fund II (Latin America)
SCL Energia Activa, a Latin America-focused investor in energy- and power-related assets, has reached a final close for its Americas Energy Fund II with capital commitments of US$247 million. Investors in the fund included family offices, funds of funds, pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. Latin America-based investors committed approximately 45 percent of the capital, with the remainder coming… Read More
East Africa Capital Partners to Build Data Centers in Kenya and Tanzania (Sub-Saharan Africa)
East Africa Capital Partners (EACP), a venture capital fund manager focused on the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in the greater Eastern Africa region, is deploying KES4.6 billion (approximately US$48.4 million) to set up data centers in Kenya and Tanzania. EACP expects the projects in Mombasa and Dar es Salaam to be completed by the end of 2015, and intends… Read More
CITIC Capital Partners Fully Exits China Cinda Asset Management via Share Sale (Asia)
CITIC Capital Partners, the private equity arm of CITIC Capital, has exited its entire holding in China Cinda Asset Management, a China-based non-performing loan manager. CITIC has sold its remaining 1.96 percent stake in the company for HKD1.1 billion (approximately US$141 million). In March, CITIC exited a 3.28 percent stake in the company through a share sale on the Hong… Read More
Warburg Pincus Sells Its Stake in Metropolis Healthcare (Asia)
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has fully exited its 27 percent stake in Metropolis Healthcare, an India-based pathology diagnostic laboratory company, for US$90 million to the Shah family, promoters of the company, who were supported in the buyback by global investment firm KKR. Details regarding KKR’s involvement in the transaction were not disclosed. Warburg Pincus initially purchased its stake… Read More
Cordiant Capital Closes a US$15 Million Loan to SA Taxi Development Finance (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Cordiant Capital, a fund manager specializing in emerging markets investments, has closed a US$15 million loan to SA Taxi Development Finance, a South Africa-based mini-bus taxi finance provider. The loan was structured through Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund IV and is part of a six-year, US$36 million multi-currency loan facility with SA Taxi arranged by Dutch development bank FMO. Read More