Galaxy Securities Said to Raise $1.1 Billion in Share Sale

Galaxy Securities Said to Raise $1.1 Billion in Share Sale

Bloomberg 15 May 2013 China Galaxy Securities Co., a brokerage controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, raised about $1.1 billion in an initial public offering in Hong Kong, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The company, based in Beijing, sold...
Local search engine Just Dial’s Rs 950-cr IPO opens tomorrow

Local search engine Just Dial’s Rs 950-cr IPO opens tomorrow

Business Standard 19 May 2013 The estimated Rs 950-crore IPO of local search engine Just Dial will begin tomorrow and is one of the largest initial public offers by an Indian Internet company. The IPO, which does not have issue of fresh shares, would see promoters...

Bharti suggested to sell tower asset in Africa to Infratel

Business Standard 17 May 2013 Investment bankers have suggested that Bharti Airtel’s top management hive off the company’s African telecom tower assets into a separate company and then sell it to its listed subsidiary, Bharti Infratel, at a valuation of $2...
XSML finances expansion of Starz-kin into Congo’s interior

XSML finances expansion of Starz-kin into Congo’s interior

Africa Venture Capital Association 14 May 2013 Dutch fund manager XSML announced its investment in Starz-kin, a retail business consisting of shops that sell household goods to the lower end of the market in DRC. This investment, through XSML’s Central Africa SME...