Global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has invested a reported US$200 million in Afriflora, a rose grower and distributor with a main growing facility in Ethiopia. The transaction was structured through KKR’s European fund. Afriflora grows about 730 million flowers a year for export to Europe. Read More
Pan-African private equity firm Helios Investment Partners has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Nigeria-based pension fund manager ARM Pension Managers, a subsidiary of asset manager Asset & Resource Management Company (ARM). ARM Pension Managers has more than US$2.2 billion of pension assets under management and intends to… Read More
Private equity fund manager Phatisa will invest in a special purpose vehicle with Kenya-based real estate and investment trust Africa Reit to develop a 66-unit apartment complex in Kikuyu Town, located to the west of Nairobi, Kenya. Phatisa’s investment will be structured through its Pan African Housing Fund. Financial… Read More
Frontier markets-focused private equity fund manager XSML has invested in Democratic Republic of the Congo-based digital printing business Quickprint. The company provides digital printing solutions for corporates, non-governmental organizations, small- and medium-sized enterprises and individuals. Quickprint intends to use the financing to purchase new printing machines. Financial details of… Read More
Pan-emerging markets private equity firm Actis has realized its investment in Egypt-based Commercial International Bank (CIB), selling its remaining 6.5 percent stake to Canada-based financial services holding company Fairfax Financial Holdings. Actis previously sold a 2.6 percent stake to international investors in March 2014. Financial details of the transaction… Read More
Pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has partially exited its stake in Togo-based Oragroup, a commercial banking holding company with operations in West and Central Africa, through a sale to Gabon’s Strategic Investment Fund. The divested stake had originally been acquired through ECP’s Central Africa Growth (CAGS)… Read More
Nhlanganiso Mkwanazi is a cofounder and Director of Medu Capital, a South Africa-focused private equity firm with more than ZAR2 billion (approximately US$200 million) assets under management. Nhlanganiso discusses the current private equity landscape in South Africa, as well as macroeconomic challenges facing the country, including the general elections and… Read More
What is Emerging Markets Mezzanine Financing? Access to finance is one of the most prevalent challenges facing countless entrepreneurs and business owners across the emerging markets. Local banks have traditionally focused their lending on only a handful of large companies—in part, because they view smaller firms as having insufficient assets… Read More
EMPEA Global Limited Partners Survey finds 67% of institutional investors view the risk profile of private equity in emerging markets as unchanged 30 April 2014, Washington, D.C. – Two-thirds of limited partners (“LPs”) investing in emerging markets private equity view the risk profile of emerging markets private equity (“EM PE”)… Read More
Key findings from the 2014 Global Limited Partners Survey include: 41% of LPs* plan to increase the percentage of their total PE allocation targeted at emerging markets over the next two years, higher than the 32% reporting similar intentions in the 2013 survey. 54% of LPs* expect to increase the dollar value… Read More
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