Vantage Capital, Africa’s leading mezzanine debt provider, has provided $10m of funding to Simba Properties Investment Company, the property investment arm of Simba Group in Uganda.
Amethis Finance and Retail Holding (the parent company of Label’Vie Group) have jointly invested in CDCI, a food distribution company in Côte d’Ivoire.
Actis has announced a significant investment in Université Centrale Group (Université Centrale), a leading provider of private tertiary education in Tunisia.
Permira, an international private equity firm, has acquired Teraco Data Environments, the largest provider of carrier neutral datacentre services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ADP II, a pan-African private equity fund advised by DPI, has acquired a strategic minority stake in HomeChoice International, an omni-channel home shopping retailer in southern Africa, from the majority shareholder in HomeChoice. Eduardo Gutierrez Garcia, Partner at DPI, said: “HomeChoice is a top quality business with a unique and flexible operating model coupled with an experienced and impressive management team.”
DOB Equity, a Dutch investor, has completed an equity investment in Joseph Initiative, an Ugandan agricultural trading company.
The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager, has invested $147m in Diamond Bank, a commercial bank headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with operations across West Africa and the UK.
Ethos Private Equity has entered into an agreement to acquire Nampak’s Tissue, Corrugated and Sacks divisions for a total purchase price of around $14m (R1.575bn).
Actis has announced a $65m investment in Tekkie Town, South Africa’s leading independent sports and lifestyle shoe retailer.
Vantage Mezzanine, Africa’s leading mezzanine debt provider, has concluded a transaction with Surfline Communications to provide $30m (R330m) of expansion capital to the company together with a fund co-investor. The funds will be used for the on-going expansion of Surfline’s 4G LTE network in Ghana as well as to grow its product distribution and marketing network.
African Capital Alliance (ACA) has invested in Filmhouse Cinemas, the fastest growing cinema chain in Nigeria and Film One, its associated film production and distribution company.
TriLinc Global Impact Fund has recently approved $2.8m in two trade finance facilities to companies in South Africa.
Vantage Capital, Africa’s leading mezzanine funder, has provided R77m ($7.06m) of funding for the acquisition of preferred equity facilities in a Pembani-owned SPV that holds 30% of the ordinary equity and PIK notes in AfriSam.
Fusion Capital has invested in the Kes. 2bn ($22.3m) Meru Greenwood Park in Kenya, an integrated development in the heart of Meru County.
