21 March 2018
GenAfrica Asset Managers Limited (“GenAfrica”, or the “Company”) and Centum Investment Company PLC (“Centum”) are pleased to announce a new partnership with Kuramo Capital Management, LLC (“Kuramo”), that will result in Kuramo acquiring a majority stake i…
Read more »21 March 2018
Centum Investment Company Plc (“Centum”) is pleased to announce the completion of sale of its 25% stake in Platcorp Holdings Limited (“Platcorp”) to Suzerain Investment Holdings Limited, a consortium of Platcorp’s management team (“Management”) and an exi…
Read more »27 February 2018
LeapFrog Investments, the dedicated equity investor in financial services and healthcare for emerging consumers, has successfully exited its holding in Petra Trust, the largest independent pensions trustee in Ghana, to Capital Alliance Private Equity IV L…
Read more »06 February 2018
Actis today announced that it has agreed to sell its 79.5% majority stake in Mentor Management Limited (MML) a Kenyan project management company, to Turner & Townsend, a global construction and management consultant. The management team of MML will re…
Read more »19 December 2017
LeapFrog Investments, the dedicated investor in financial services and healthcare for emerging consumers, has sold a major stake in BIMA to Allianz X – the digital investment unit of the global insurer and asset manager, Allianz Group – as part of a $96.6…
Read more »28 November 2017
Metier leads the sale of its investment in AE AMD (including two operational photovoltaic power plants totalling 30MW in the Northern Cape of South Africa) from its clean energy and resource efficiency fund, Lereko Metier Sustainable Capital (LMSC). Meti…
Read more »21 November 2017
Investec Asset Management Private Equity (Investec) has divested its equity holding in Ashwah Holdings (Ashwah), parent company of Daraju Industries (Daraju), by selling its significant minority stake back to the company. Daraju is a leading Nigerian…
Read more »01 November 2017
With an investment return of 3.3x, CDG Capital Private Equity has announced its total exit from Jet Contractors through a sale on the Casablanca Stock Exchange. “CDG Capital Private Equity has contributed to the organic and structural development of Jet …
Read more »12 September 2017
Agilis Partners acquires majority stake in The Joseph Initiative, a leading grain management and merchandising company in Uganda Management Buy Out is one of the first in Uganda New capital structure will enhance the company’s growth prospects in a se…
Read more »27 July 2017
Convergence Partners Investments (Convergence Partners) - an investment firm focused on the TMT sector in Africa - has exited its investment in specialist IT services and solutions company, Dimension Data Middle East & Africa (DiData). Convergence Pa…
Read more »07 July 2017
Pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to sell its 90% share ownership of the Java House Group, East Africa’s leading casual dining chain, to The Abraaj Group. Java House G…
Read more »03 July 2017
Agri-Vie Fund I, the Africa Food and Agribusiness Investment Fund managed by the pan-African private equity investment firm, EXEO Capital, has announced its exit from one of South Africa’s most respected value-added dairy companies, Fairfield Dairy, con…
Read more »02 May 2017
Tuesday, 2nd May 2017, London: The number of exits achieved by PE firms in Africa is trending upwards, evidenced by a record number of exits in 2016. According to the EY and African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (AVCA) fifth annual stud…
Read more »25 April 2017
Investec Asset Management (IAM) has successfully completed an exit from its mezzanine investment in SA Taxi, the first financial services provider to focus solely on the taxi industry in South Africa. IAM invested in March 2011 through its first African …
Read more »10 April 2017
AfricInvest, a leading pan-African SME-focused private equity firm with more than US$1bn under management, and Mediterrania Capital Partners (MCP), a regional private equity firm focused on growth investments for SMEs in North Africa and Sub-Saharan count…
Read more »10 April 2017
Mediterrania Capital Partners, a regional private equity firm focused on growth investments for SMEs in North Africa and Sub-Saharan countries, and AfricInvest, a leading pan- African SME-focused private equity firm with more than US$1bn under management,…
Read more »07 April 2017
Actis, a leading growth markets investor, has announced the sale of its remaining 7.5% stake in Edita Food Industries (Edita) to 42 blue-chip international investors from the USA, UK, Germany, South Africa, and the UAE through an accelerated book build on…
Read more »28 February 2017
Tuesday, 28th February 2017, London: Private equity investment in Africa continues to go from strength to strength, evidenced by a new report from the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA). AVCA’s 2016 Annual African Private Equity…
Read more »16 February 2017
Injaro Investments, the manager of the agricultural impact fund IACHL, announces the sale of its 30% stake in seed producer NAFASO SA to the founders and other shareholders. This share sale represents a full exit from Nafaso after a holding period of just…
Read more »10 February 2017
Development Partners International (DPI), a leading Africa-focused private equity firm with US$1.1bn in assets under management, is pleased to announce that its African Development Partners I (ADP I) Fund has successfully sold its 27.7% shareholding in CA…
Read more »16 January 2017
Actis, a leading growth markets investor, today announced a full exit of its remaining 14.3% stake in Uganda’s principal electricity distribution and supply business, Umeme Ltd, via the Ugandan and Kenyan capital markets. Actis originally invested in Ume…
Read more »23 November 2016
East Africa focused private equity firm Catalyst Principal Partners (Catalyst) has announced its exit from pharmaceutical retailer Goodlife Pharmacy where it held a controlling stake. Catalyst sold its stake to LeapFrog Investments, a private equity inves…
Read more »01 November 2016
AfricInvest, one of the key Pan-African midcap private equity firms, is pleased to announce that its Maghreb Private Equity Fund II (MPEF II) has successfully sold its 20.06% stake in the Group Cotugrain Hortimag (Cotugrain Hortimag) to a consortium compo…
Read more »21 October 2016
Cauris Management, first private equity fund manager in Francophone West Africa, sold its shares in Atlantic Business International (ABI). Common holding between the Moroccan group Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) and the Ivorian Atlantic Financial Group …
Read more »29 September 2016
AfricInvest, one of the key Pan-African midcap private equity firms, is pleased to announce that its Maghreb Private Equity Fund II (MPEF II) has successfully concluded its exit from Général Emballage (GE) a leader in the manufacturing and processing of c…
Read more »05 July 2016
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) has announced the successful sale of investments in three privately-concessioned toll roads in Southern Africa. Acting as the manager of the South Africa Infrastructure Fund (SAIF), AIIM successfully concl…
Read more »23 June 2016
Pareto Limited and Business Venture Investments No. 1360 (Proprietary) Limited (Pareto) announced the successful conclusion of an equity raising transaction with Belelani Capital, a Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company. The subscription by…
Read more »21 June 2016
Helios Investment Partners (acting on behalf of Helios Investors, L.P.) and including The Pembani Group, First City Monument Bank and IFC, announced the completion of the sale of HTN Towers (“HTN”), the pioneer of tower infrastructure sharing in Africa, t…
Read more »04 May 2016
The Abraaj Group (‘Abraaj’ or the ‘Group’), a leading investor operating in global growth markets, today announced that it has successfully exited its investment in leading Tunisian pharmaceutical company Unité de fabrication de médicaments (‘Unimed’ or t…
Read more »23 March 2016
Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) has acted as legal adviser to the management team of Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading Africa and Middle East payments business, on the sale of EMP by Actis to Network International. Actis is the private equity f…
Read more »10 March 2016
Acting on behalf of funds to which it is advisor, Helios Investment Partners (“Helios”) today announced it has agreed the sale of HTN Towers (“HTN”), the pioneer tower company in Nigeria, to IHS Towers (“IHS”), the largest telecommunications infrastructur…
Read more »07 March 2016
Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Exchange), an African leader in energy and infrastructure, announced today that its business unit Finance Unlimited has finalized the sale of its entire holding in subsidiary Tanmeyah Microenterprise Services, Egypt…
Read more »03 March 2016
Actis, a leading growth markets investor, today confirmed an agreement to sell Emerging Markets Payments (‘EMP’), the leading Africa and Middle East payments business, to Network International. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.Actis esta…
Read more »14 January 2016
Mediterrania Capital Partners, the regional Private Equity firm focusing in growth investments for SMEs in North Africa and Sub-Saharan countries, announces a full exit of Cepro ("Cellulose Processing"), a manufacturer and distributor of baby diapers and …
Read more »22 December 2015
Tunis, Tunisia, 22 December 2015: The Abraaj Group (‘Abraaj’ or the ‘Group’), an investor operating in global growth markets, today announced the successful exit through one of its Funds of a partial stake in leading Tunisian pharmaceutical company Unité …
Read more »16 December 2015
Regional PE fund Kibo I has partially exited its investment in Madison Finance Company Limited (MFinance) through redemption of its preference shares. MFinance is a licensed microfinance institution in Zambia with a network of 18 branches. TKF acquired a …
Read more »25 November 2015
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 24 November 2015: The Abraaj Group (‘Abraaj’ or the ‘Group’), an investor operating in global growth markets, today announced that it has fully exited its shareholding in the African insurer, Saham Finances (‘Saham’ or the ‘Co…
Read more »17 November 2015
Actis, an emerging markets investor, RMB Westport, a notable sub-Saharan Africa real estate investment management and development group and Paragon Holdings, a leading Nigerian investor group today confirm the sale of Ikeja City Mall to South African Real…
Read more »27 October 2015
Port Louis, Mauritius, September 2015: Adenia Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on growth opportunities and mid-cap buyouts in Sub-Saharan Africa, has exited its investment in Newpack, a corrugated cardboard packaging company in the Indian O…
Read more »27 October 2015
Port Louis, Mauritius, October 2015: Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Sub-Saharan Africa, has exited its investment in Hôtel du Louvre, a flagship business hotel located in Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, to a group of loc…
Read more »22 September 2015
Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, along with its investment partners, announces the sale of C-Re Holding Limited (“C-Re Holding”) to Saham Finances S.A (“Saham”), the i…
Read more »21 September 2015
AfricInvest is pleased to announce that its fund AfricInvest Ltd., acting as lead investor, alongside FMO (the Dutch development bank), Finnfund (Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd.), Bank of Africa Group (a pan-African bank majority-owned by BMC…
Read more »21 September 2015
Globeleq, a company owned by Actis, the pan-emerging market investor, has completed the sale and transfer of Globeleq Africa, the power generation platform in Africa, to a company owned by Norfund, the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries an…
Read more »07 September 2015
AfricInvest, a pan-African SME-focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce that its AfricInvest Fund II, along with other shareholders, has successfully concluded its exit from Brookhouse Schools Ltd (“Brookhouse”) to UK-based Educas LLC in Augus…
Read more »24 August 2015
Cotonou, Benin, 24 August 2015: Cauris Croissance, the second fund managed by Cauris Management, the West African private equity fund manager, confirmed the sale of its stake in Eau Technologie Environnement (ETE) to the Moroccan company “Les Eaux Minéral…
Read more »27 July 2015
Dar Es Salam, Tanzania and Johannesburg, South Africa, July 27th 2015: Global Alternative Asset Manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) today announced its intention to sell its current minority shareholding in Export Trading Group (ETG) to the company man…
Read more »15 July 2015
July 15, 2015: Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), today confirms that it has exited la Nouvelle Societé Interafricaine d’Assurance Participations SA (NSIA), the west and central African insurance group, through the sale of its equity stake to the National …
Read more »07 July 2015
Actis today confirms that it has sold its majority shareholding investment in Mouka Limited (Mouka), the Nigerian mattress brand, to Abraaj, a private equity investor. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Mouka manufactures foam sprin…
Read more »24 June 2015
Nairobi, Kenya, 24th June 2015. We are pleased to announce that NSSF Uganda has completed the purchase of a 2.44% stake in Equity Group Holdings Limited (“Equity Group”) from Helios at a price of Kenya Shillings fifty (50/=) per share.Commenting on the tr…
Read more »06 June 2015
Nairobi, Kenya, 6th June, 2015: Helios Investment Partners announced that funds managed by Genesis have acquired from Helios 155,854,000 shares (comprising approximately 4.21% of the issued shares) in Equity Group at a price of Kenya Shillings 47.50 per s…
Read more »02 April 2015
Actis, the global pan-emerging market private equity investor, has partially exited from Edita Food Industries (Edita), an independent snack food business in North Africa. Subject to final completion, Actis has sold a 15 % stake as part of a heavily overs…
Read more »23 March 2015
Verod Capital has fully exited ownership of HFP Engineering (“HFP”), a Nigerian company based in Lagos. Established in 1979, HFP is a major player in the property development and construction industry in Nigeria. The company developed several landmark p…
Read more »10 March 2015
Cairo, Egypt, 10 March 2015: The Abraaj Group (‘Abraaj’ or ‘the Group’), an investor operating in global growth markets, today announced the successful exit, through one of its Funds, of its investment in ECCO Outsourcing S.A.E (‘ECCO’ or ‘the Company’), …
Read more »03 February 2015
Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Exchange, formerly Citadel Capital), an African leader in infrastructure and industry, signed today a sale and purchase agreement to divest its full 80% shareholding in Pharos Holding in a deal valuing 100% of Pharo…
Read more »03 February 2015
A new partnership to boost power generation in Africa by adding at least 5,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity over the next 10 years has been announced today by Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, and CDC, the UK develo…
Read more »27 January 2015
AfricInvest, a leading pan-African SME-focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce that its AfricInvest Fund II (“AFII”) and AfricInvest Financial Sector (“AFS”) Fund, along with two other investors, Aureos Africa Fund (managed by Abraaj) and Swed…
Read more »16 January 2015
London,United Kingdom, 16 January 2015: Norfund and NorFinance AS (a joint venture investment company between Norfund and Norwegian private investors) have agreed terms with Helios Investment Partners (“Helios”) to purchase from Helios an effective stake …
Read more »08 January 2015
Nairobi, Kenya, January 8th 2015: Centum Investment Company Limited (“Centum”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with a member of the Old Mutual Group for the sale of Centum’s 13.75% shareholding in UAP Holdings Limited. Alongs…
Read more »22 December 2014
Investment enabled expansion of Company’s North African footprint and increased product range Construction of new state-of-the-art production plant to further improve long-term growth prospects Tunis, Tunisia, 22 December 2014: The…
Read more »28 November 2014
Funds managed by DPI (“Development Partners International LLP”) and AfricInvest, leading Africa-focused private equity funds and DEG, FMO and PROPARCO, the European development finance institutions, announced today that they have entered into a definitive…
Read more »20 November 2014
Exit in-line with ADC’s strategic focus on banking Leapfrog becomes key shareholder ADC African Development Corporation AG (ADC) announces the sale of its 38.74% stake in Resolution Health East Africa Limited (RHEAL) to Peter Nduat…
Read more »08 October 2014
LeapFrog Investments has agreed to sell its minority stake in Apollo Investments Limited, a leading East African insurance group, to Swiss Re. LeapFrog is actively seeking further financial services companies in the region, with up to U…
Read more »29 August 2014
Synergy Capital (Synergy) is pleased to announce the exit of its investment in Ridge Energy Limited Ghana, a mid stream oil & gas infrastructure business located in Tema, Ghana. The transaction, which, closed on Thursday, August 28, 2014, is a trade …
Read more »03 August 2014
Abraaj exits investment in Fibrex, a leading manufacturer of plastic pipes Deal among the first for the private equity industry in Angola Production volume increased organically by over 70% per cent The Abraaj Group (“A…
Read more »02 June 2014
ADC African Development Corporation AG (ADC); ISIN DE000A1E8NW9, announces the sale of RSwitch, the national e-payment switch of Rwanda, to Millicom (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) – a digital services provider operating under the Tigo brand in 15 markets in Afri…
Read more »12 May 2014
12 May 2014: The Central Africa Growth Sicar (CAGS) fund, managed by pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), today announces it has successfully exited its stake in Oragroup, the Togo-based, regional commercial banking holding com…
Read more »31 March 2014
Tunis - March 31st, 2014Swicorp, a leading investment banking and asset management firm focused on the MENA region, announced the successful listing of Sotipapier on the Tunis Stock Exchange. Swicorp acquired a strategic stake in Sotipapier in May 2012 th…
Read more »30 January 2014
Lereko Metier Capital Growth Fund exits Surgical Innovations to Ascendis HealthLereko Metier partnered the founding entrepreneurs of medical device distributor Surgical Innovations in 2008. Newly Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed healthcare group, Ascen…
Read more »09 January 2014
ECP exits SAH as absorbent hygiene products manufacturer starts trading after successful IPOLargest listing since creation of the Tunis Stock Exchange also marks the first exit of a financial investor through the TSEEmerging Capital Partners (ECP) today a…
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The @IFC will invest up to US$13mn in Capria Fund, a new US$100mn 'network fund' that invests in impact fund mana… https://t.co/3FnFe15eLR
@Proparco invested US$3mn in @JUMO_WORLD, a EM fintech start-up supporting the under-banked. #AVCASummit18… https://t.co/O574LSxcra
@AFD_France has launched a new US$76mn fund to support African start-ups. US$58mn will be administered through… https://t.co/PJJKOPhrj8
Nairobi-based mobile survey platform @mSurvey raised US$3.5mn in a Series A round led by #TLcom Capital. #AVCASummit18 #VCinAfrica
@Jumia_Group, Africa's biggest ecommerce ecosystem, is Africa's first 'unicorn': an unlisted start-up with a valuat… https://t.co/JXuRIbcbbD
