M&A Analysis

Kenya's Equity Bank, one of the country's seven dominant banks, has acquired local player Juanco Investment Bank in a bid to increase its role in the retail investment sector. Although... 2009-02-04

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an Africa-focused private equity firm that has raised more than $1.60bn for investments across the continent, has announced that it has acquired a... 2009-01-30

The Qatari government has ordered the merger of yet another of its state-owned enterprises. It was announced on January 19 that real estate firms Barwa Real Estate and Qatar Real... 2009-01-21

The trend in infrastructure, and specifically toll road, M&A continues early on in 2009 with the announcement that Abu Dhabi-listed Aabar Investment has acquired a stake of approximately... 2009-01-07

With South Africa's Competition Tribunal due to begin hearings into MTN's proposed acquisition of the mobile retail distributor iTalk and its ZAR1.5bn (US$162mn) purchase of Verizon's... 2009-01-05

Toronto- and London-listed Addax Petroleum announced on December 15 that it has increased its stakehold in the Gryphon Marin licence area off the coast of Gabon. The acquisition of... 2008-12-17

Leading Saudi Arabian dairy company Almarai has made an offer to take over local company Hail Agricultural Development (HADCO) in a share-swap deal. Almarai, which is the Gulf's largest... 2008-11-11

South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has made a conditional offer to acquire the entire share capital of the Bond Exchange of SA (BESA) for ZAR173.2mn (US$16.5mn). The... 2008-10-30

Qatar Telecom has caused confusion with its October 23 move to lower its offer for Indonesia's second-largest mobile operator, PT Indosat. Without stating a reason, the company, also... 2008-10-29

The Capital Partnership (TCP), a Dubai-based specialist asset manager for institutional and high net worth clients, has been acquired by larger, local rival NCB Capital, based in... 2008-10-23