All posts tagged Citadel
Celebrating the Award Winners
Private Equity Africa is delighted to announce the winners of its maiden awards. The accolades are the first and only awards to solely focus on Africa’s private equity industry. The cream of Africa’s private equity industry gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel …
Citadel exits NPC for $147.5m
Citadel Capital has sold its stake in Egypt-based oil and gas platform company National Petroleum Company Egypt (NPC Egypt) to Sea Dragon Energy for $147.5 million. Citadel Capital owned
Citadel courts Chinese investors
Citadel Capital is expected to soon hold talks with the China Investment Corporation (CIC) about the possibility of CIC's fund investing in African private equity, according to a
Citadel to raise $50m from exits
Abraaj buys Amundi’s African PE platform
Abraaj Capital has acquired Amundi’s North African private equity platform from Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. The agreement will see Abraaj Capital take over Amundi’s stake in the $161
Citadel leads $82m RVR equity injection
Citadel Capital has led existing shareholders in a new $82million financing round of its transport portfolio company Rift Valley Railways (RVR). Citadel owns 51% of RVR while Trans-Century holds
Citadel gets approval to raise $175m
Citadel Capital has received clearance from the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority to call a shareholders' meeting to raise its capital by $175million (E£ 1.05billion). The regulator is understood to have
Citadel attracts $21m from DEG and EIB
Citadel Capital has raised $21million worth of fresh commitments for its Citadel Capital Transport Opportunities II Fund (CCTO II), a specialist fund that invests in logistics companies operating
Deals bounce back
Deal making in Africa’s private equity market has exhibited strong recovery in the first half of 2011, as investors put capital to work. At least 12 deals were revealed
Rethinking political risks
Recent developments in the Egyptian private equity market bring to the fore some of the political risks that still seem to taint the African private equity industry, although










