212, a venture capital firm focusing on Turkey, eastern Europe, the Middle East and north Africa, is looking to conduct five to eight further investments, with EUR 32m left in its latest fund to deploy.
Female private equity professionals in Europe and Africa continue to earn less than their male counterparts at partner, principal and associate levels, according to Heidrick & Struggles' 2021 EMEA Private Capital Compensation Survey.
Africa-focused investor Development Partners International raised more than $1.1bn of new capital targeting dealmaking on the continent. The post DPI raises one of the largest ever funds dedicated to investing global capital in Africa first
Africa-focused buyout house BluePeak Private Capital has held a $115m first close for its first flagship private credit and mezzanine fund. The firm is targeting a final close of $200m, with a hard cap of
Africa Finance Corp has launched a new asset management arm with plans to raise up to $2bn over the next three years, targeting infra investments aimed at managing climate change challenges such as rising temperates
UK development finance institution CDC Group has backed a pair of Africa-focused investment funds with a total of $60m as the first investments from its new credit strategy. The post African debt fund pair get
Global emerging markets investor Actis has named Charles Daulon du Laurens as head of EMEA within its investor development group to lead fundraising and investor relations activities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The
Impact investor LeapFrog has picked up a stake in Ghana’s largest privately-owned bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana. The post LeapFrog Investments buys into Ghana’s biggest privately-owned bank first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region saw US$39.1 billion in Fintech investment in H1'21, including a record US$15.1 billion in venture capital (VC) funding, said a study. Accordin...Article Link
Investment giant BlackRock has picked up more than $250m for the first close of a new fund focused on investing in climate infrastructure across emerging markets. The post BlackRock’s $500m-targeting climate infra fund attracts big
Opalesque Industry Update - EMPEA, the global industry association for private capital investment in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Middle East, today announced it is now the Global Private Capital
Unifrax, a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital, has agreed to acquire publicly traded Lydall at an enterprise value of approximately $1.3 billion. Clearlake acquired Unifrax from American Securities in October 2018. Lydall (NYSE: LDL) designs
Brexit, substance and transparency requirements, which have resulted in increased regulatory and reporting burden, and also increased cost and uncertainty, have put different jurisdictions to test in different ways over the past years. At the
Emerging markets-focused Leapfrog Investments has bolstered its global healthcare team with the appointment of Biju Mohandas.
Builders of America’s Future pilot program made possible by partnerships with Bay Area organizations Bill.com, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business-...(PRWeb February 23, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/new_silicon_valley_accelerator_program_for_black_entrepreneurs_launched_by_african_diaspora_network_and_key_partners/prweb17748384.htm
The executive will lead the firm’s Europe, Middle East, India & Africa financial services regulatory business and will chair the firm’s global financial services regulatory network
The executive will lead the firm’s Europe, Middle East, India & Africa financial services regulatory business and will chair the firm’s global financial services regulatory network
The $6.4bn-managing Philadelphia Board of Pensions & Retirement has committed $100m across two private equity and impact investment funds.
CDC Group has led a string of development finance institutions and impact investors to help Phatisa Food Fund 2 reach a $143m final close.
Nomura said that net revenues in its investment banking business for the last three months of 2020 were the highest in nine years. Yet while it was a good quarter overall for the firm's wholesale
