A few other pieces caught our interest last week. How people slice and dice the data around the size and growth rate of Africa's emerging middle class differs depends on who you speak to
El objetivo de esta alianza es que las empresas que forman parte de la asociación tengan acceso a nuevas vías de financiación, "lo que contribuirá al desarrollo de sus proyectos y al crecimiento d...
In Africa's biggest private equity deal last week, The Abraaj Group teamed up with three financial institutions, the European Bank for Reconstruction, DEG and PROPARCO to set up North Africa Hospital ...
Ultimately, disposing of assets is about value creation. Shrinking to grow, if you like. Studies show that breakups have a sounder track records of success when compared with acquisitions or mergers
The most notable deal news of the last week was the announcement that Actis is teaming up with wind and solar developer Mainstream Renewable Power to establish Lekela Power, a $1.9 billion pan-african...
Investors and their advisors are circling a handful of deeply indebted U.S. shale and conventional oil producers who they think are unlikely to survive the price decline
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
Si atendemos al cuarto trimestre de 2014, se han registrado las mejores cifras por trimestre del año, con un total de 352 operaciones, entre anunciadas y cerradas, que han movilizado un total de 49.5...
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...
