{"id":587159,"date":"2023-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/23\/ezdehar-targets-struggling-mid-sized-firms-with-new-egp-1-bn-fund\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:00:00","slug":"ezdehar-targets-struggling-mid-sized-firms-with-new-egp-1-bn-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/23\/ezdehar-targets-struggling-mid-sized-firms-with-new-egp-1-bn-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezdehar targets struggling mid-sized firms with new EGP 1 bn fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">A new Ezdehar fund to support struggling<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">firms: <\/span><span style=\"\">Pri<\/span><span style=\"\">vate <\/span><span style=\"\">equity firm <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ezdehar.com\/\" style=\"\">Ezdehar Management<\/a><\/span><span>will launch a EGP 1 bn local-currency fund targeting struggling medium-sized businesses in 3Q 2023, Managing Director Emad Barsoum was quoted as telling <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3WenVO8\" style=\"\">Al Mal<\/a><\/span><span>. The fund is approaching major local banks and other financial institutions for investment and is in preliminary talks with Avanz Capital Management\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/e71b9923-9a7c-448c-b995-ac034cfe96d2\" style=\"\">Avanz Manara<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> fund, Ezdehar Managing Director Emad Barsoum told Enterprise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The new fund has between five and seven firms in its sights <\/span><span>for investment this year, Barsoum told us, declining to name the companies. It will target stakes of 20-25% in medium-sized companies struggling with recent economic press<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">ures including the EGP devaluation and inflation, in sectors including F&B, healthcare, ins., education, and manufacturing, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">More where that came from? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The fund could target a second close of EGP 2 bn \u201cif market conditions allow,\u201d Barsoum said, adding that the initial EGP 1 bn could be deployed in as quickly as six months or as long as two years depending on the economic situation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fund is in talks with investors and eyeing 5-7 local firms this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7272],"tags":[7324,3529,72,762,125,758],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-587159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment-watch","tag-avanz-capital-management","tag-emad-barsoum","tag-enterpriseam","tag-ezdehar","tag-investment-watch","tag-private-equity","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"1d3f6d81-3ea0-4eeb-bfcd-b4ec27edcac3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/1227.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Ezdehar targets struggling Egyptian mid-sized firms with new EGP 1 bn fund","related_issue":[587148],"teaser":"The fund is in talks with investors and eyeing 5-7 local firms this year","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/5\/.ff869653-94f5-4afe-8c0f-fc08c2275e07.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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