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The listing of Société d’Articles Hygiéniques (SAH), on the Tunis Stock Exchange on 9 Jan after a private placement and an oversubscribed initial public offer (IPO) is the largest listing on the Tunis bourse, valuing the company at $163.5 million.
Learn from private equity fund-raising and deal trends of 2011 and look forward to the rest of 2012 with top private equity managers and a leading Africa economist at the Private Equity Africa evening seminar in London on 14 March. Entry deadline 31 March is also fast approaching for the Private Equity Africa awards, in association with the Coller Institute of Private Equity at London School of Business.
Pan-African private equity specialist Emerging Capital Partners today announced that Andrew Brown is appointed Chief Investment Officer (CIO) in a new position. He will join the investment committee of the $613 million ECP Africa Fund III, which closed in June 2010 and has made 4 investments.