M&A Deal Summary

Actis Capital Acquires Eneo

On January 1, 2014, private equity firm Actis Capital acquired utilities company Eneo

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Actis Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Utilities sector.
  • This is Actis Capital’s 1st transaction in Cameroon.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-01-01
Target Eneo
Sector Utilities
Buyer(s) Actis Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Eneo

Douala, Cameroon
Eneo is an electricity utility company responsible for generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. Eneo is based in Douala, Cameroon.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Actis Capital

London, United Kingdom

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
PE ASSETS 26.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Actis Capital is a private equity firm focused on investments in emerging markets. Actis segments its investment activity into three areas. These include private equity, energy, and real estate. Actis' private equity team looks for buyout and growth capital opportunities requiring at least $50 million in financing. Depending on the situation, Actis will consider both controlling and minority investment situations. Sectors of interest include financial services, consumer and retail, business services, and industrial. Actis' energy group seeks to invest in in a variety of energy and utility projects. Actis' real estate team invests equity capital in office, residential, industrial, hotel and retail projects. Actis Capital was established in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 109 of 163
Sector: Utilities M&A 2 of 7
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 36 of 52
Country: Cameroon M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-12-11 Sterling Addlife India

Ahmedabad, India

Sterling Add-Life Medical Institute (Sterling) is a leading regional healthcare company in Gujarat, India, which owns the 175-bed multi-specialty Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad, two satellite centres around Ahmedabad and the 100-bed Sterling Unity Hospital in Baroda. Sterling provides a broad range of medical services including accident and emergency care, specialist consultation and surgery for a wide variety of diseases, as well as services in radiology, pathology, dentistry and ophthalmology.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-10 EIC Education

Hong Kong, China

EIC Education is a provider of overseas education counselling services to students in China by number of contracts signed in 2014, with a national market share of 13%. The Company is also a major integrated overseas education advisory services provider in China, offering market leading complementary test preparation services as part of the wide range of integrated and complementary overseas education advisory services to students. EIC Education is based in Hong Kong, China.

Sell $200M