IFC, the World Bank's private investment arm, was involved in a number of news items relating to Africa's private equity and infrastructure investment markets last week. The biggest, in dollar terms, ...
While no change on that is expected imminently, the review of AIFMD scheduled for 2017 is a perfect chance for legislators to ensure that this practice is ended for all fund managers. That would be a ...
In term's of private equity activity in Africa last week, deals were slow and muted. No transactions involving direct investments by fund managers were reported. We had to look to a portfolio company ...
Last week's important announcement by the European Commission is that €400 million will be used to seed a new EU fund of funds for investment in venture capital. While this adds pressure to ensure t...
A couple of healthcare-related deals, an energy and infrastructure fund exit and significant fund close garnered most of the attention in Africa's private equity world last week.
There were some interesting private equity and venture capital related-transactions in Africa last week. One huge, another featured a couple of pukkah Silicon Valley outfits while yet another involved...
Small and midcap deals were the name of the game in Africa's private capital markets last week. There were a few of them. In terms of size, Phatisa's deal to expand its stake in Kanu Equipment was the...
CMS’ Private Equity Watch gives an overview of the European market, as well as articles covering the UK specifically, W&I, co-investment with strategics in the German market, the availability of fin...
Carlyle's dedicated sub-Saharan Africa fund has made its second deal of 2016 by agreeing to buy a majority share in CMC Networks, a South Africa-headquartered provider of managed connectivity services...
While neither won the award for the biggest transaction of the week, two infrastructure deals grabbed people's attention last week. The first had a claim to call itself "the biggest", in this case the...
El fondo UN I+D+i Tech Transfer f.c.r., gestionado por Clave Mayor fue constituido en noviembre de 2015, con el objetivo de invertir en su mayor parte en proyectos tecnológicos en primeras fases gene...
Mastertech Capital SCR ha sido promovida por la agencia de valores Talenta, que actuará como sociedad gestora del fondo. Jordi Jofre, que es uno de los socios de Talenta, asumirá la presidencia,Roge...
