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Tuesday 21 May 2013

PAHF Announce First Close of USD41.5m Thursday, 20 December 2012 The Phatisa-managed Pan African Housing Fund (PAHF) has announced its first close of USD41.5m. The fund aims to raise a total of USD100m, with fundraising to be completed in 2013. The African Development Bank (AfDB) had earlier committed USD7m to the fund... Read more about PAHF Announce First Close of USD41.5m Comments Quick view	Private Equity in East Africa: State of Play 2011/2012 Tuesday, 13 November 2012 Some in-house news today: Together with the Nairobi Deloitte office, we have launched the 2012 East Africa Private Equity Confidence Survey. This is the second edition of the survey initiated by Deloitte a year ago, and it has been beefed up quite a bit:... Read more about Private Equity in East Africa: State of Play 2011/2012 Comments Quick view
Actis Closes Africa Real Estate Fund 2 at USD278m Tuesday, 9 October 2012 Emerging markets PE firm, Actis has closed its second Africa real estate fund at USD278m. Actis says this makes them the largest private equity real estate investor on the continent ‑ and we can’t think of anyone from the PE world who has raised or... Read more about Actis Closes Africa Real Estate Fund 2 at USD278m Comments Quick view	The Demise of E+Co Tuesday, 2 October 2012 It looks to be just about all over for green energy impact investors E+Co. Impact IQ reports that millions of dollars in bad loans have driven the firm nearly out of business. The article is worth reading in full (including the comments) for all the gory... Read more about The Demise of E+Co Comments Quick view
PE Brings US Law Firms to Africa Friday, 28 September 2012 Everyone is interested in Africa business these days, and large US law firms are now also coming to the table, even though very few have yet established offices on the ground: American Lawyer have look at the recent entries of US law firms to the continent, much of it driven by sovereign debt transactions, privatisations... Read more about PE Brings US Law Firms to Africa Comments Quick view	ICT Start Ups: Hype or Business? Tuesday, 25 September 2012 “There’s hype and then there’s business.” That was the frank assessment offered at the recent DEMO Africa investor roundtable on tech-focused venture capital in Nairobi. East Africa’s tech space is having a heyday. Rapid mobile penetration across the... Read more about ICT Start Ups: Hype or Business? Comments Quick view
USD7m AfDB Funding for Pan African Housing Fund Thursday, 20 September 2012 The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide USD7m for the private equity Pan African Housing Fund (PAHF), managed by Phatisa and backed by Shelter Afrique. PAHF target investments in residential real estate for the low to mid-income demographic on... Read more about USD7m AfDB Funding for Pan African Housing Fund Comments Quick view	Crowd sourcing: Getting Ahead of the Pack, or Ahead of Itself? Wednesday, 29 August 2012 We reported recently on Grow VC, a US-based group that is promoting crowd sourcing for Africa. The idea is to gather money from ordinary people through an online platform to fund new ventures and fill the gaps where VC and angel investors have yet to... Read more about Crowd sourcing: Getting Ahead of the Pack, or Ahead of Itself? Comments Quick view
KKR to Venture Into Africa? Friday, 24 August 2012 According to BusinessWeek, Private equity firm KKR & Co. are reportedly hiring a dealmaker to look at the opportunities in sub Saharan Africa. The new staff member will initially be based in the company’s Europe office. KKR have declined to comment.... Read more about KKR to Venture Into Africa? Comments Quick view	The Many Incarnations of Private Equity in Africa Wednesday, 15 August 2012 In the news recently (here, and here) was the announcement that TLG Capital had transformed its Africa-focused private equity fund into a holding company (which will remain a separate entity from TLG's recent partnership with Duet PE). This has become... Read more about The Many Incarnations of Private Equity in Africa Comments Quick view

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