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ACA maintains a family of industry-specific funds that seek to make equity-related investsments in various sectors of the Nigerian economy and in other African economies.

Investment Types

  • Expansion capital for rapidly growing businesses.
  • Partnering with multinationals to tap specific opportunities.
  • Management buyouts and turnarounds of under-managed businesses.
  • Start-up situations in partnership with experience technical partners or hand-picked qualified managers, always focused on tapping market-led investment opportunities

Investment Themes

  • Deregulating and privatizing industries with opportunities for private sector leadership such as telecoms, power, oil & gas, media, etc.
  • Opportunities driven by outsourcing non-core services of premier companies as they refocus on their core businesses.
  • Sectors benefiting from shifts in government spending and increased private sector demand such as infrastructure, education and healthcare.
  • Global businesses new to Nigeria with opportunities to leapfrog poorly managed (or non-existent) competitors, particularly in transportation, logistics management, distribution, wholesaling, retailing and services.
  • African regional and export-oriented opportunities.

Investment Policy

CAPE is looking to invest in companies that fit the following criteria :
Market Leaders - companies that are clearly the leaders in their industry.

  • Strong Management - because CAPE Partners with management, it is important that our manager - partners are among the best in the business. In addition, CAPE expects our management partners to hold a meaningful stake in their companies.
  • Ability of the company to generate cash and sustain growth.
  • Feasible Exit.

Focused Industry

  • Telecommunications
  • Information Technology
  • Media
  • Health Care
  • Outsourced Services
  • Oil & Gas
  • Logistics & Transport
  • Manufacturing for export

 

 

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