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All conference programmes are devised by expert content developers in collaboration with the FT editorial team to ensure the same high quality of debate and analysis -- along with the integrity and accuracy -- that the newspaper is renowned for. Speakers and delegates are drawn from the most senior levels of industry, commerce and government. Highly experienced logistical teams ensure a seamless conference experience for attendees at carefully chosen venues enhanced by cutting-edge technology and design concepts. Many events will be streamed live to meet the demands of a fast-growing online audience.
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Lead sponsor
Founded in 1984, Ethos Private Equity is a leading South African private equity fund manager. With over 25 years of successful investing, our strategy is time-tested and proven across a range of economic and political cycles.
Independently owned and managed by its investment professionals, Ethos is a management-driven firm whose interests are strongly aligned with those of our stakeholders. As a control and growth investor, Ethos takes an active ownership role in its portfolio companies, utilising proven value creation strategies to generate superior and consistent returns for investors. Our core premise is that the businesses into which Ethos invests are stronger, more robust, more sustainable and more valuable on exit than they were prior to Ethos’ ownership.
Independently owned and managed by its investment professionals, Ethos is a management-driven firm whose interests are strongly aligned with those of our stakeholders. As a control and growth investor, Ethos takes an active ownership role in its portfolio companies, utilising proven value creation strategies to generate superior and consistent returns for investors. Our core premise is that the businesses into which Ethos invests are stronger, more robust, more sustainable and more valuable on exit than they were prior to Ethos’ ownership.
Ethos is currently raising and investing Fund VI, focusing mostly on control acquisitions and expansion capital in medium-to-large companies in South Africa and selectively in sub-Saharan Africa.
Please visit: www.ethos.co.za
Lead sponsor
KPMG has had a significant presence on the African continent for over 100 years and currently employs 8000 professionals in 43 offices across 30 countries. We are able to serve our clients in any of the 55 countries that make up Africa today.
KPMG firms have a longstanding commitment to the global PE community. In offices across our international network dedicated professionals experienced in private equity focus on the needs of the PE community and its investors. KPMG’s Private Equity Group comprises practitioners from Advisory, Tax and Audit practices, including Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Restructuring and Forensics.
When developing their services and strategies, KPMG member firms take account of the individual requirements of their clients in different markets and different industries. We are committed to providing an integrated and tailored service of the highest standard – shaping our team to the needs of our clients.
KPMG firms have a longstanding commitment to the global PE community. In offices across our international network dedicated professionals experienced in private equity focus on the needs of the PE community and its investors. KPMG’s Private Equity Group comprises practitioners from Advisory, Tax and Audit practices, including Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Restructuring and Forensics.
When developing their services and strategies, KPMG member firms take account of the individual requirements of their clients in different markets and different industries. We are committed to providing an integrated and tailored service of the highest standard – shaping our team to the needs of our clients.
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Lead sponsor
Nedbank Capital is the investment banking arm of Nedbank Group, one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa. Our full spectrum investment banking offering stretches from debt advisory and long-term project financing to equity trading and research.
Nedbank Capital’s Private Equity offering is one of southern Africa’s leading private equity investors. Its core investment focus is to participate in ‘Management Buy-outs’ and ‘Management Buy-ins’ primarily of unlisted companies, which have an established track record of profitability and exhibit positive earnings growth prospects. In this regard, the team seeks to partner with entrepreneurs and management teams by investing from upwards of R30 million in individual transactions. Nedbank Capital Private Equity operates like an independent private equity fund manager that invests capital directly off the Nedbank Group’s balance sheet, giving it the advantage of not being constrained by the usual investment and/or disposal time horizon pressures.
Our Acquisition and Leveraged Finance offers a full-service solution that includes arranging, underwriting, structuring, funding and syndication of acquisition finance, leveraged debt and structured finance transactions.
Please visit: www.nedbankcapital.co.za
Nedbank Capital’s Private Equity offering is one of southern Africa’s leading private equity investors. Its core investment focus is to participate in ‘Management Buy-outs’ and ‘Management Buy-ins’ primarily of unlisted companies, which have an established track record of profitability and exhibit positive earnings growth prospects. In this regard, the team seeks to partner with entrepreneurs and management teams by investing from upwards of R30 million in individual transactions. Nedbank Capital Private Equity operates like an independent private equity fund manager that invests capital directly off the Nedbank Group’s balance sheet, giving it the advantage of not being constrained by the usual investment and/or disposal time horizon pressures.
Our Acquisition and Leveraged Finance offers a full-service solution that includes arranging, underwriting, structuring, funding and syndication of acquisition finance, leveraged debt and structured finance transactions.
Please visit: www.nedbankcapital.co.za
Lead sponsor
Webber Wentzel is a leading South African law firm with a market-leading Private Equity practice across the African continent. We act for general partners, limited partners, management teams and portfolio companies advising them on all aspects of private equity fund formation and transactional matters. We have developed and refined many of the fund structures and transactional techniques which have become market accepted best practice in our markets in Africa and are consistently involved in the highest profile deals. Depending on the nature of the fund or transaction, our industry knowledge and experience in sectors such as infrastructure, mining, energy, telecoms, financial services, real estate and agriculture can help steer clients through the opportunities and challenges of investing on the continent. Many of the firm's partners are recognised as leading practitioners in the private equity field, as well as in the fields of banking, capital markets, corporate finance, M&A and tax.
Our extensive network, including the firm's collaborative alliance with global law firm, Linklaters, and our strong network of relationships with law firms across the African continent, along with our experience on the ground and proven track record mean that we can help you achieve your investment objectives in Africa. Webber Wentzel's collaborative alliance with Linklaters provides our clients with market leading support across sub-Saharan Africa through Linklaters' English Law, New York Law, Francophone and Lusophone capability, and enables us to work on an integrated basis on multi-jurisdictional transactions.
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Co-sponsor
Global Environment Fund, a Washington, DC based private equity firm founded in 1990, invests around the world in businesses that provide cost-effective solutions to pressing energy, resource and environmental challenges. GEF’s investments draw upon decades of operating experience in three distinct markets—US-based companies providing leading environmental and clean energy technologies and services; emerging market businesses in rapidly growing clean energy and environmental services markets; and timberlands in attractive locations in the southern hemisphere. The firm has offices in South Africa, Brazil, India, China, Washington, DC and other key markets. GEF currently manages approximately one billion dollars in private equity investments for institutional investors including university endowments, foundations, family offices and pension funds.
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Exhibitor
eFront is a leading software provider of end-to-end solutions dedicated to the financial services industry with a recognized expertise in enterprise risk management, alternative investments and customer relationship management. eFront's solutions serve more than 700 customers in 40 countries, including companies in the private equity, real estate investment, banking and insurance sectors. eFront's primary product suites, FrontInvest, Investment Café, PEO, WebLP, Pevara, FrontERM, FrontGRC and Front360, offer tightly integrated solutions for streamlining the management of alternative investments and corporate risk. Founded in 1999, eFront services clients worldwide from offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/efront .
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Exhibitor
Standard Bank Corporate & Investment Banking – They call it Africa. We call it home.
Standard Bank Corporate & Investment Banking is the leading corporate and investment banking business in, for and across Africa, with a deep specialisation in natural resources. Building on over 150 years’ experience as an African emerging markets bank, and through our on-the-ground presence and local insight, we connect our clients to opportunities across Africa and beyond. We firmly believe that Africa’s time is now.
Standard Bank’sinvestment banking team has extensive experience and are highly skilled. We are ideally positioned to advise and provide assistance to clients seeking a broad range of corporate finance and market-led solutions to the complex challenges facing theprivate equitysector in Africa and other key markets.
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LP Masterclass Sponsor
The Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) Partnership is a G8 initiative dedicated to supporting the efforts of African countries to strengthen their financial sector by coordinating and facilitating financial sector development (FSD) initiatives, promoting closer collaboration among development partners and fostering exchanges among African stakeholders. Thirteen multilateral and bilateral development partners support the Partnership with a shared common vision to overcome fragmentation and increase efficiency and effectiveness to develop the financial sector in Africa.
To help support the activities of the Partnership, a MFW4A Secretariat was established at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and works to advance the overall objective of the Partnership by:
- Maintaining an online platform for knowledge management and dissemination;
- Building networks with development partners and African stakeholders to better align interventions with priority needs; and
- Impacting the financial sector development agenda in Africa through advocacy.
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LP Masterclass Sponsor
Old Mutual Investment Group’s Alternative Investments boutique manages a range of private equity, infrastructure, mezzanine debt and development impact portfolios. As one of the leading private equity businesses in South Africa, we manage assets on behalf of Old Mutual and third-party investors. With a 10-year track record of delivering competitive long-term returns, we have successfully invested over R6.7 billion in 23 direct investments and returned in excess of R18 billion to investors (as at September 2013). Fundamental to our investment strategy is forming strong partnerships to invest in top quality businesses with strong management teams.
Our funds have provided investors with access to many the top private equity deals (by value) in South Africa, including Pepkor, Life Healthcare, Consol, Actom, Idwala, Tourvest and Savcio. We also manage a range of funds of funds that invest in a premier South African private equity managers. These investments provide retail as well as institutional investors with more affordable access to the private equity asset class.
Please visit: www.oldmutual.co.za
Host to Keynote Speaker
Sanlam Private Equity (SPE) is the private equity division of Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, managing a cR3.5bn commitment. As at 30 November 2013, SPE’s investment portfolio comprised 30 investments, valued at cR3.0bn, with a fairly broad industry / sector exposure, including investments in the ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, manufacturing, media, construction (andrelated) and diversified industrial sectors. SPE’s new strategic focus is on investment into pure private equity transactions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The investment strategy prioritises equity (and equity related) investments of USD10-30m into established high growth mid-cap companies. SPE is sector agnostic with certain exclusions - most notably primary agriculture, extractive industries and real estate.
Host to the MC
Vantage Capital is a South Africa-based firm that specializes in mezzanine debt, renewable energy debt, debt capital markets and corporate senior debt transactions throughout Africa. Vantage Capital manages two mezzanine debt funds, a renewable energy senior debt fund, a technology fund and has a debt capital markets advisory business. Vantage has assets under management of over R4.5bn.
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Supporting organization
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Media partner
CNBC AFRICA is the continent’s first and largest pan-African business television network. Launched on June 1st 2007, to fill the vacuum in business news services that had previously existed on the African continent, CNBC Africa has pioneered broadcasting and delivering financial news from across the continent ever since. Covering high finance from East West and Southern Africa, live every weekday, CNBC Africa lives up to its global promise of delivering fast actionable and unbiased information to its audience of entrepreneurs, decision makers, bankers, fund managers, chief executives, traders and the like, first. With over 13 bureaus across Africa, CNBC Africa is physically represented on the ground, relaying information from the continents biggest economies. CNBC Africa is available on DStv Channel 410 and on cnbcafrica.com
