A private equity partner moves to a software and service business

Roderick John Fehrsen (59) has been appointed as an independent non-executive director with effect from 30 March 2009.  Mr Fehrsen will also chair the audit committee and serve as a member of the remuneration committee.
Mr Fehrsen qualified as a chartered accountant and has over thirty years general business management experience, mostly at executive and board [...]

Private equity venture signed up business

Mauritius-registered private equity venture SEACOM has signed up business worth about half its $700 million investment in an undersea telecommunications cable linking African countries with the rest of the world, its CEO said on Monday.
Brian Herlihy said the fibre-optic cable that will connect Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and other countries along the east and southern coast [...]

How long is piece of string?

The Deloitte Private Equity Group is proud to present to you the sixth publication of the South African Private Equity Confidence Survey (“PECS”) which is conducted in conjunction with SAVCA. Private Equity Confidence Survey Q12009

Ethos private equity supports expansion plans for mobile messaging provider

Private equity firm Ethos, being Clickatell’s largest institutional investor, has been instrumental in supporting Clickatell’s expansion plans in Africa and abroad.
“We are committed to working closely with the management of our investee companies to support them with their strategic and growth ambitions. We have supported Clickatell in their strategic, marketing and business development activities [...]

Many BEE deals may need renegotiating: experts

Many of the black economic empowerment deals struck in recent years after painstaking negotiations may have to be renegotiated, dealing a blow to the Department of Trade and Industry’s goal for an unencumbered 25% of the economy to be in black hands by 2017, according to Werksmans Attorneys and auditors BDO Spencer Steward.

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South African private equity firms are increasingly looking at the rest of the continent, spurred by the success of local telecoms and retail companies in Africa’s frontier markets, according to KPMG.
Africa’s biggest economy accounted for more than 70 percent of the sub-Saharan region’s $2.9 billion of private equity deals in 2008, but this share is [...]

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