unquote" South Africa Private Equity Congress 2009

The second annual unquote” South Africa Private Equity Congress took place on 12 February 2009 at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town. The sell-out event attracted 270 delegates for the day-long conference and was sponsored by Brait Private Equity, KPMG, White & Case, Control Risks, Greenpark Capital, Vunani Private Equity Partners, eFront, ADC, Investment Data Services and Investec Capital Markets.

Thanks to all participants for helping to make this an information-packed and well-attended day which was another sell-out success!

To download the unquote" write-up from the event, click HERE

We will be announcing details of the 2010 South Africa Private Equity Congress in the coming months so please check this site regularly for updates.

Key congress highlights included:

• High-quality networking with an increasing number of Western LPs who are looking to South Africa as a potential place of investment

• Finding out which mid market players are leading the way in 2009

• Getting on top of infrastructure investment know-how

• Discovering development capital’s growing appeal in terms of investment strategy and returns

• Discussing outward focus strategy for SA funds an hear successful cases from a range of pan-African sectoral and geographic opportunities

• Revisiting the numbers by analysing the changing price of debt in 2009 and the effects on company valuation

• Hearing key black economic empowerment funds (BEE) assess the impact of BEE on their firm positioning

• Analysing private equity’s role in underpinning the South African investment drive