{"id":628627,"date":"2018-05-09T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/09\/alta-semper-capital-opens-regional-office-in-cairo\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T04:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:19:01","slug":"alta-semper-capital-opens-regional-office-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/09\/alta-semper-capital-opens-regional-office-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alta Semper Capital opens regional office in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-05\"><\/a> <strong>London-based private equity firm Alta Semper Capital opened yesterday a new regional office in Cairo,<\/strong> according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/International-capital-to-invest-in-Egypt.pdf\">emailed statement<\/a>. The office will serve Egypt and the region through investments in the consumer and healthcare sectors. \u201cThere are many interesting investment prospects in Egypt to which we can apply our international experience,\u201d said Managing Partner and CEO Afsane Jetha. Former CI Capital Director of Investment Banking Ahmed Rady will head the new office. Alta Semper had partnered with CI Capital Partners <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2016\/12\/21\/alta-semper-capital-and-ci-capital-partners-acquire-stake-in-healthcare-products-outfit-macro-pharma\/\">back in 2016<\/a> to acquire stake in healthcare products outfit Macro Pharma. The transaction was Alta Semper\u2019s first investment in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alta Semper deserves credit: <\/strong>With all due respect to our friends in the Emirates: post the devaluation of the EGP, there is little economic rationale for buysiders, PE types, financial services companies, lawyers or other service providers to base their regional HQs out of Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based private equity firm Alta Semper Capital opened yesterday a new regional office in Cairo, according to an emailed statement. The office will serve Egypt and the region through investments in the consumer and healthcare sectors. \u201cThere are many interesting investment prospects in Egypt to which we can apply our international experience,\u201d said Managing Partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-628627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"8f9441fd-db13-45f9-81af-c64bbec9aa53","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"9f8559d1-daf5-4636-93d8-7a0a32531f28","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[628613],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alta Semper Capital opens regional office in Cairo - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/09\/alta-semper-capital-opens-regional-office-in-cairo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alta Semper Capital opens regional office in Cairo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London-based private equity firm Alta Semper Capital opened yesterday a new regional office in Cairo, according to an emailed statement. 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