2. 2
Worldwide pattern for Private Equity
development…
Developed markets
Markets for Private Equity growing interest
2000
2009
Source : IFC – AVCA Conference Cairo Nov. 2009
3. 3
a fast growing interest for African
Private Equity…
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0
500
1 000
1 500
2 000
2 500
3 000
3 500
4 000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Numberoftransactions
millionsUSD Funds raised vs. Invested Funds
Funds Raised Invested Funds Number of transactions
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
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Google Insight: Occurring result for the search of term "African
Private Equity"
Source : Google insight – mars 2011
Source : EMPEA – Rapport Annuel 2010
4. 4
SOUTH AFRICA
SWAZILAND
LESOTHO
SIERA
LEONE
Private Equity Activity
High
Medium
Low
… with a potential for more
development
Source : Kusuntu Research Jan. 2011
40%
25%
20%
3% 12%
Funds breakdown bystyle
Capital Expansion Funds Generalist Funds
Infrastructure Funds Real Estate Funds
Others
Source : EMPEA – Annual Report 2010
Source : Kusuntu Research Mar. 2011
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Technologies
Consumer goods
Health Care & Medical Sciences
Agribusiness
Media & Telecom
Services
Infrastucture
Industries & Manufacturing
Others
Energy & Natural Resources
Banks and Financial Services
Number of transactions Size of transaction
5. 5
… mainly funded by Development
Finance Institutions…
• About 200 Private Equity teams managing or raising
funds
• Exception made of South Africa, key Africa Private
Equity sponsors remain the DFI’s
• Bigger contributors to date are FMO, CDC, Norfund,
Bio along with the IFC and the African Development
Bank
• Recent funds raisings show appetite from Non DFI’s
investors
African PE Funds resources per origin
60%
15%
20%
5%
DFI's Non African LP's African LP Domestic Investors
Source : Kusuntu Research Mar. 2011
7. 7
… with a high concentration of small
funds…
$ 1 bn
$ 0.5 bn
$ 0.25 bn
Regional Funds Pan-African Funds Global Funds
Source : Kusuntu Research Mar. 2011
8. …funds are not the only way to invest
• Historical DFI’s sponsored
actors have used funds or
investment companies as a
vehicle
• Recent teams, sourcing
funds from non DFI’s or
opportunistically, have
favored Club Deal SPV’s to
yield quicker track record
• Direct investments is also
taking off
8
Source : Kusuntu Research Jun. 2011
9. 9
… an industry that is being organized
• AVCA : African Venture Capital Association
– Represents the African Private Equity and Venture
Capital industry and working to implement across the
profession international standards
– Composed of full and associate members, even
individuals, as far as they act for the recognition and
the development of the African PE / VC
– Natural partners between professional and policy
maker to have necessary changes happen to develop
Africa through Private Equity Investment
– Organize
• The Annual Conference of the association,
• Promotional events on key African PE VC topics
• Training
– Edit and publish
• Educational material as well as documentation
supportive to it actions
10. …a development led from multiple
poles
• Advanced Private Equity place
– Maghreb-French Speaking African Pole
• Casablanca, Tunis
– Nile-Eastern African Pole
• Cairo
– Southern African Pole
• Johannesburg
• Emerging Private Equity Place
– West Africa
• Abidjan, Accra, Lagos
– East Africa
• Nairobi
• Non Regional Center
– Northern American Pole
• Montréal, New-York, Washington
– Europe and Middle-East
• Dubai, Londres
– Asia
• Singapour
10
SOUTH AFRICA
SWAZILAND
LESOTHO
SIERA
LEONE
Source : Kusuntu Research Jan. 2011
- Advanced PE VC center
- Emerging PE VC center
11. …a question of where to domicile African
Private Equity Funds…
• Choice of domicile is guided by two
factors
– Investment rules/constraints
– Tax requirement by LP’s
• Key domiciles Re: Investment constraints
– Botswana
– Mauritius
– South Africa
– WAEMU countries
• Key domiciles Re: LP’s tax requirements
– Mauritius
– Luxembourg
– Delaware
11
Tax transparency
- +InvestmentDomicileconstraint
Weighted by number of funds registered
Source : Kusuntu-le-Club Research Nov. 2010
-
+
South Africa
Botswana
WAEMU Countries
Mauritius
Luxembourg
Dubai
12. a real growing interest worldwide
12
A fast growing meetings
and conferences events
on the themes of Direct
Foreign Investment or
Private Equity investing
on Africa.
13. …A barely touched opportunities
• To the size of the continent, there
are not enough PE/VC Funds
• Existing funds are too small
• Early stage funds vacum
• Too many funds focus on capital
expansion strategies
• Investment pipe line is long to be
full
• An entrepreneurial potential that
is still in it infancy
• A PE / VC attractiveness limited to
only few countries
13
Source : EMPEA – Coller Capital PE survey 2011
Factors likely to deter LPs from beginning to invest in individual
emerging markets/regions over the next 2 years – % of respondents
Private Equity certainly helps
job creation, but « to create
jobs, one must first create
employers»
Gonzague de Blignieres – BFM Business 17 may 2011
14. An ocean of opportunities for the
investors
14
Master Funds
Feeder Funds
Feeder FundsFeeder Funds
Feeder Funds
… numerous initiatives to draw the investors
savings worldwide to African Private Equity
Funds are impeded by regulatory barriers and
costs that technology and adequate
partnership would help remove…
… in the favorable context where African
Entrepreneur’s vitality need to be supported to
create the tomorrow economic champions and
subsequently create an increasing number of
jobs and wealth to the benefit not only of the
continent
15. About Kusuntu
Kusuntu-le-Club is an Africa Diaspora executives and sympathizers partnership set
up with the ambition to act connecting worldwide capital to frontier market
economies, especially Africa.
Kusuntu-le-Club aims at providing leadership thought and act to promoting change
and development in Africa through private equity investment.
Kusuntu-le-Club behaves as a Think Tank and advocacy group to promote Private
Equity investment in Africa.
Kusuntu-le-Club actions take various forms such as public position taking, research
publication, social networking or edition of an African Private Equity Directory.
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16. 16
Contact us
• A LinkedIn Group : kusuntu-le-club
• A Social Network : kusuntu.ning.com
• A Directory of African Private Equity: kusuntu-partners.com
• email : info@kusuntu.com