{"id":95400,"date":"2024-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/ta-associates-acquires-majority-stake-in-dubais-alephya\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"ta-associates-acquires-majority-stake-in-dubais-alephya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2024\/09\/03\/ta-associates-acquires-majority-stake-in-dubais-alephya\/","title":{"rendered":"TA Associates acquires majority stake in Dubai\u2019s AlephYa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>US private equity firm <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ta.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">TA Associates<\/a><\/strong><strong> has acquired a majority stake in Dubai-based GCC <\/strong><strong>education <\/strong><strong>provider <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alephyaeducation.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">AlephYa Education<\/a><\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/1312\/alephya-education-welcomes-majority-investment-ta-202409012340951\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. TA Associates cited AlephYa\u2019s \u201cstrong, diversified platform driven by an impressive track record of M&A and operational excellence.\u201d Neither party put a value on the transaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The new shareholder structure: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashmoregroup.com\/en-sa\/ashmore-saudi-arabia\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashmore Investment Saudi Arabia<\/a> will divest its entire stake in AlephYa, having been an investor since 2017. Existing investors Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) and Oman International Development and Investment Company SAOG (Ominvest) will retain \u201csignificant\u201d stakes, the press release says. Prior to the transaction, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gic.com.kw\/education\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">GIC held 35%<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ominvest.com\/our-investments\/private-equity\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Ominvest 15%<\/a>, according to their websites. It\u2019s unclear whether either Ominvest or GIC sold down portions of their stake as part of the sale. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>More acquisitions in the cards? <\/strong>TA wants to see AlephYa expand regionally \u201cbring high-quality, affordable education to more communities across the GCC,\u201d TA Director Vishal Gupta said. \u201cWe see great potential for AlephYa\u2019s continued expansion, both organically and through strategic acquisitions,\u201d TA Managing Director Dhiraj Poddar added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>About AlephYa: <\/strong>Founded in 2017, the company operates 13 schools across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. AlephYa\u2019s schools offer a mix of American, British, and local curricula, catering to over 18.5k students, including both local and expatriate families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>ADVISORS- <\/strong>Our friends at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tamimi.com\/eg-en\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Tamimi & Company<\/a> were advisors to TA Associates on the transaction. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwinlaw.com\/en\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodwin Procter<\/a> also provided legal counsel, while <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/m1\/en.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">PwC Middle East<\/a> was financial advisor to TA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TA aims to scale AlephYa\u2019s operations through the partnership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","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":[2392],"tags":[313,7,1451,1342,60],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-95400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-watch-2","tag-education","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-gcc","tag-investment","tag-ma-watch","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"af0cf79b-4b8e-4f33-8aa7-72abbc96ae19","order":"7","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/9\/189.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"TA Associates acquires majority stake in Dubai\u2019s AlephYa","related_issue":[95388],"teaser":"TA aims to scale AlephYa\u2019s operations through the partnership","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/9\/.7eb7b2f2-be34-494e-9457-4b0c51fa55d3.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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