Stanbic Bank Uganda and CfC Stanbic Kenya, subsidiaries of Standard Bank Group, have completed the first ever Accelerated Bookbuild (ABB) on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) and Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) followed by an offer to management and retail investors. Stanbic advised Actis, a UK-based private equity firm, on the
Companies such as Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank and Nigerian Breweries have put Nigeria at the forefront of frontier market opportunities, according to Baring Asset Management. Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, recently rebased its GDP upwards to USD500 billion for 2013, ranking the country as the 26th largest economy in the
Private equity firm Permira has held the final close of its global private equity fund, Permira V, at the hard cap of EUR5.3 billion (USD7.2 billion). The new fund will follow Permira's long-term investment strategy of identifying market-leading businesses that benefit from structural growth drivers and have significant potential to
Varagon Capital Partners, a new asset manager focused on direct lending to middle market companies, is aiming to provide tailored investment services that meet the needs of sophisticated institutions. Varagon is an independent firm, backed by American International Group and by certain partners and affiliates of Oak Hill Capital Management,
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin advised Antin Infrastructure Partners on the structuring of its second fund, Antin Infrastructure Partners II. The fundraising was completed in less than a year and exceeded the initial target of EUR1.5 billion, reaching its hard cap of EUR2 billion. The fund, Antin Infrastructure Partners
Sycamore Partners has closed its second fund, Sycamore Partners II, with limited partner commitments of USD2.5 billion. Sycamore Partners' first fund, Sycamore Partners LP, closed in 2012 with limited partner commitments of USD1 billion. With the closing of its second fund, Sycamore Partners now has in excess of USD3.5
Carey Olsen is the number one offshore legal adviser to London Stock Exchange (LSE) clients, according to the Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide (Q2 2014). The law firm increased its LSE clients by four from the previous quarter and has 40 more clients than the next ranked offshore law firm featured
Romulus Capital has raised USD50 million from a group of individual investors from the US, Western Europe, Russia, South Asia, the Middle East and Hong Kong. The fundraising of Romulus’ second fund makes it one of the largest seed funds in the world. “By design, few things about us
Seventy six per cent of the world's top entrepreneurs plan to increase the size of their workforce in the year ahead by an average of 19 per cent, largely driven by growing global demand for goods and services and technological advances. That’s according to the third EY Global Job Creation
Jersey Finance is hoping that a recent increase in visits to the Gulf by both the regulator and senior government ministers will boost finance business attracted from the region. In addition to the recent activity which included visits to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
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