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Helios Raises $1.1 Billion Fund for African Investments

By Cov Africa on January 23, 2015
Posted in Uncategorized

On 12 January, the London-based private equity group Helios Investment Partners announced that it had exceeded the $1 billion target that it had set for Helios Investors III, L.P., or “Helios III”, thus making it the first $1 billion-plus private equity fund for African investments.  Founded in 2007 by Nigerian-born Tope Lawani and Babatunde Soyoye,…

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