Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, June 1st, 2015

by Allan Cunningham

Most of the notable announced deal news in Africa’s private equity, infrastructure and venture capital sectors last week was made by portfolio companies rather than the funds themselves

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap; February 9th, 2015

by Allan Cunningham

Emerging markets private equity firm Actis has relinquished control of Globaleq Africa, earning $225 million in a sale to a partnership of two Development Finance Institutions, CDC and Norfund

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How To Get Private Equity Exits in Africa Right

by KPMG

From 2007 to 2012, Africa has recorded well over 600 successful exits. According to the KPMG and SAVCA Venture Capital & Private Equity survey released in June 2013, South Africa recorded about 536 ex...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap; February 2nd, 2015

by Allan Cunningham

The most notable fundraising news of last week came from STANLIB with the announced closing of their maiden private equity infrastructure fund at R1.2 billion or approximately $103 million

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap; January 26th, 2015

by Allan Cunningham

EMPEA reported that private equity raised a total of $4 billion for Africa in 2014. Now that we have already hit 50% of that figure before the end of the first month of the year suggests that 2015 wil...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap; January 19th, 2015

by Allan Cunningham

In dollar value terms, the biggest potential exit or exits was made by Standard Chartered. It was reported that their Principal Investments unit is close to selling a portfolio of private equity inves...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap II

by Allan Cunningham

We had to wait until the end of the week for the most notable news in Africa-focused private equity; namely Helios Investment Partners' record $1 billion-plus fund dedicated to opportunities in Africa...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap

by Allan Cunningham

The ability of some countries to service their debt levels has been nagging investors all year, but until recently there was no sign of weakening interest in the asset class

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Private Equity in Africa: Heeding the Sub-Sahara’s Siren Song

by Allan Cunningham

From a continent long-riven by warfare, famine, pestilence and corruption, there’s a new investment narrative now and it seems to ring true. It’s called ‘Africa Rising’ — in which a new Afri...

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