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
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
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...
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
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 wi...
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...
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...
Private equity investment on the African continent grew significantly in the past decade, and more and more new entrants are targeting the market. The trend garnered more attention this year with the ...
