News of a significant fund launch leads our coverage this week. Canada-headquartered Stonechair Capital announced the launch of #EnergyAfrica, a new private equity fund that is aiming to raise several...
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Funds, funds, funds. Once again this week, most of the news coming out of Africa's private capital markets concerned fund launches and raises. And some of them are of a significant size
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It was a quieter week in Africa's private capital markets compared to the week before. While the deals tended towards the smaller side, some of the industry's larger players were featured, one of them...
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Deals in Africa's private capital markets last week came in multplie flavours and multiple sizes. In the private equity sphere, there was a first. Investec Asset Management announced its first deal in...
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Two items of fund closing news took the spotlight last week. Of the two, Phatisa posted the larger interim close. The private equity fund announced the first close for its second fund, Phatisa Food Fu...
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While the volume of activity wasn't particularly high last week, Africa's private capital markets offered up a little bit of everything. Both equity and debt investments, partial exits from an upcomin...
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Deals and fundraising for mezzanine funds seemed to be the flavour of the week, last week. But we'll get to those in a second. The biggest transaction of the week was a private equity infrastructure d...
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Dealmaking and fundraising values tended toward the smaller end of the scale last week in Africa. In the first of a couple of Series A rounds, Kuramo Capital is investing in Green Africa Airways. The ...
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Another strong exit features in the deal news from Africa this week. And, once again, it was for a secondary deal.This time the beneficiary is Centum Investments, who sold its remaining stake in Plati...
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We're leading this week's edition with news of an exit that's dependent on the closing of a $1 billion deal. The exit is for Wendel Group, who'll dispose of its 13.3% stake in the Saham Group. The dea...
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Some of Africa's larger private capital investment firms were involved in deals last week. And there were a couple of firsts too - a debut deal for a new fund and final close for a first-time fund, (a...
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It must be said that things seemed strangely quiet in Africa's private capital markets last week. Perhaps that's because many key participants were whooping it up at the World Economic Forum in Davos....
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