4th Africa Finance
Conference of Paris
Paris – Autumn 2016

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Africa is at it tipping point. This situation reminds conditions that prevail in Europe and in the UK during the edge of the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. As of changes experience within the last 30 years in Asia, it is expected that Africa will experience similar mutations for the next 20 years. With more than 400 000 private companies looking for cash to satisfy needs of the growing middle-class that is already estimated to 300 million people, Africa could create about 100 millions of new jobs during the next two decades.

For the past 5 years, and under the media light of soccer World Cup successfully organized and run by South Africa, impressive reports issued by notorious firms such as IFC, McKinsey, Ernst and Young, BCG or KPMG came to reinforce the sustainable economic growth facts that is favored by a general amelioration of public finance, governance, ease of doing business, a more specifically, a population of youth more educated, better informed who want to action all the levers necessary to the realization of their African dreams. The African Private Equity in that context appears as an essential vector to the achievement of such a vision.

With more than 200 teams managing above USD 20 bn through funds of size between USD 50 m and USD 1000 m, the African Private Equity is one of the revelations of the early 21st century. If the asset class is been talked about and being invested from the US, the UK, the Netherlands or the Nordics, it is quasi unknown in France.

PROGRAM

15 November 2012

15:35 – 15:45: Private Equity in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHDHgZS8b4

Michelle Kathryn ESSOME – CEO – African Venture Capital Association - African continent macro-economic dynamics - Private Equity landscape in Africa

15:45 – 16:30: Panel 1 – Private Equity Activities in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NJWo6jtUgI

Vincent LE GUENNOU – Co CEO – ECP Investments

Pierre CARPENTIER – Investment Director – INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES

Luc RIGOUZZO – Chairman – Managing Partner – AMETHIS Finance

Moderation: Franck GIAOUI – Managing Partner – HERA Finance

- Private Equity prospects in Africa

- Conditions of business

- Investment opportunities (sectors, geographies, Performances)

- Fund raising challenges

16:35 – 17:20: Panel 2 – Private Equity risks and its management in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3PYElHiSM

Laurent KLEIN – Chief Private Equity – PROPARCO

Brahim EL JAI – Managing Partner – MAROC INVEST (Groupe TUNINVEST – AFRIC INVEST)

Rajan ROSICK – Director – New projects Development – TRIDENT FUND SERVICES

Pierre-Yves DENEZ – Of Counsel – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

Moderation: Media Partner Journalist

- Political risk management

- Agreements Terms

- Administration and reporting

17:20 – 17:45: Break (25 minutes) - Coffee - Networking

17: 45 – 18:10: Panel 3 – Beyond investment’s profitability, there are people stories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atW03w7qQuE

Marc ALBEROLA – General Manager – FINAGESTION

Sébastien MOROKRO – General Manager – PETRO IVOIRE

Mossadeck BALLY – General Manager – Groupe AZALAI Hotels

Moderation: Jean-Marie COAT – Managing Director CHASKI COMMUNICATIONS

- What do private equity fund manager bring in terms of governance and management

- Profitability but beyond that, value creation in Africa

- Exit’s option, funds manager contribution post exit

Challenges - Conference KLC ORRICK 15 nov 2012

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CFNEWS - Conference KLC ORRICK 15 nov 2012

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Private Equity in Africa

 

 

 

Panel 1 – Private Equity Activities in Africa

 

 

 

 

Panel 2 – Private Equity risks and its management in Africa

 

 

 

 

Panel 3 – Beyond investment’s profitability, there are people stories

 

Pierre-Yves DENEZ

Of Counsel M&A and Private Equity - ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

Pierre-Yves Denez, resident in Orrick's Paris office, is a member of the Banking & Finance and Private Equity Groups.

He has extensive experience in financial laws and regulations, financial market regulations and asset management. His practice involves advising and assisting French and international clients, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, in relation to (i) the setting-up of funds and funds of funds for general partners in France and abroad, in private equity and real estate sectors, (ii) assisting funds in their investment and divestments transactions, (iii) assisting general partners in the negotiation of investment management agreements, advisory agreements and outsourcing agreements, (iv) liaising with regulatory authorities and ((v) assisting general partners and/or limited partners for any litigations.

Before joining Orrick, Mr. Denez was an associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Franck GIAOUI

Founder & Managing Partner - HERA FINANCE

After a first operational experience, Franck S. GIAOUI worked eleven years with two major strategic consulting firms in Paris, London, Milan and Boston. He was manager at BAIN & COMPANY, Vice-President at MERCER MANAGEMENT CONSULTING and Business Development Manager at KINGFISHER PLC. He specialised in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, marketing and distribution strategies and the automotive and technological industries.

He founded HERA FINANCE, an independent corporate advisory “boutique”, at the end of 1996. Since then, he has been originating and managing financial engineering deals including mergers & acquisitions, disposals & divestitures, LBO-MBO, private placements, transition management and board membership. Franck S. GIAOUI advises clients in different industries in Europe, Africa and the USA. He specialises in transactions between family owned companies and major corporations or private equity funds.

He is also a co-founder of the private equity fund APOLLO INVEST and a visiting professor in corporate finance at ESSEC MBA, the school from which he graduated.

Laurent KLEIN

Head of Private Equity - PROPARCO

Jean-Luc VOVOR

Chair Person – KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB

Jean-Luc Koffi Vovor is the founder of the Kusuntu Project, a partnership of business leaders and executives which ambitions to promote, act and support the emergence and the development of African Economic Champion thanks to the accretion of private capital worldwide.

He chairs Kusuntu-le-Club, a Think Tank next to that project. Under his leadership, the group has initiated several initiatives, part of which, Kusuntu Partners, an information and advisory service and match making platform on Africa Private Equity.

Jean-Luc is a Managing Partner at Kusuntu Partners, a Paris-based advisory firm specialising in assisting private institutions to access the vast investment opportunity set in Africa. He is graduated in Economics Sciences and Corporate Strategy from the University of Paris Dauphine

Jean-Marie COAT

Journalist and Consultant – Managing Director – CHASKI COMMUNICATION

Jean-Marie COAT is a journalist and founder of Chaski Communication, an agency that specializes in international cultural, economic and political issues.

Jean-Marie had a broad network of contact within the entrepreneurial and business world.
Jean-Marie teaches journalism and provides communication advisory services to a number of French and International business and political leaders.

Jean-Marie is graduated from the University of Paris – Sorbonne and from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Entreprise.

Paul-Harry AITHNARD

Group Head – Asset Management and Research - ECOBANK

Paul-Harry has been Head of Research for the Ecobank Group since 2008.

Here he oversees a sizeable team of Pan African analysts producing Economic analysis, Industry Research, Commodities Research, African currencies & bonds markets research, as well as product-specific analysis to enable institutional clients to navigate Africa’s complex marketplaces, ensuring the highest level of independence and objectivity in Ecobank’s research.

Pascal AGBOYIBOR

Partner – Global Head Africa Practice – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

Pascal Agboyibor, a partner in Orrick’s Paris office, is a member of the Energy and Infrastructure group.

Pascal Agboyibor heads Orrick’s Africa practice, a multicultural team which includes corporate, finance and dispute resolution lawyers based in Orrick’s offices worldwide and specialized in advising on complex projects in a number of sectors including oil & gas, power, mining, agriculture and infrastructure.

Pascal Agboyibor’s expertise covers significant project financings and M&A transactions for international and local financial institutions, commercial banks, and investors, as well as constructors, power producers and industrial suppliers, in French and English speaking African countries.

Pascal Agboyibor has an in-depth understanding of the local business markets and sociopolitical contexts, and is called on by local African authorities and multilaterals to advise on the development of policy and regulation, particularly with respect to OHADA law and financial markets.

Pascal Agboyibor started his career in 1993 with Jeantet Associés, before joining Watson, Farley & Williams in 2000, whose teams integrated with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2002. Pascal Agboyibor became a partner with Orrick in 2003.

With exits on the rise and stock markets getting along with private equity managers, the year 2013 has been a remarkable year for the African Financial sector as Private Equity has continued to progress breaking boundaries. Following a successful event last year on introducing the African Private Equity Asset Class to the French investors, KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB and ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL invite you to their 2nd Africa Finance Conference on November 14th, 2013 on transitioning from Private Equity to Stock Markets.

Africa is now leaving its tipping point and emerging into a transformational era, catching-up with the developed world and leveraging new technologies to create new business models that are being exported back to the old world. With competition now accelerating, it is now time that we move from active listening to exposure taking - the last area of economic growth. With the potential of thousands of private companies looking for cash to satisfy the needs of the growing middle-class (already estimated to be 300 million people), Africa could create about 100 millions of new jobs during the next 20 years. Financing ‘Corporate Africa’ in that context appears as an essential vector to the achievement of such a vision. The KUSUNTU – ORRICK AFRICA FINANCE CONFERENCE has been established as a partnership between two Paris based actors to creating a link between a community of investors worldwide and a community of entrepreneurs that is developing ‘Corporate Africa’.

This conference is part of the promotional activities of KUSUNTU-le-CLUB particularly; get the French Institutional Investors to know about ‘Corporate Africa’ a new asset class which could enter their investment portfolio as source for geographic diversification but also as an engine for an opportunistic and higher IRR. The conference is organized for people responsible for strategic and investment decisions within insurance companies, mutual funds and investment houses, family offices, private banks and larger corporations.

15:00pm - 15:30pm : Registration of participants

  • Coffee
  • Networking

15:30pm - 15:40pm :Welcome note: the African story in Paris, a year in a row

Jean-Luc VOVOR – Chairman KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB

15:45pm - 16:15pm : Time to accelerate investment presence to Africa
Rory ORD – Chief Executive – RISCURA

  • Landscape of the financing infrastructure for "Corporate Africa"
  • Stock Market vs. Private Equity attractiveness


16:20pm - 17:15pm : Panel Discussion – The challenge of financing "Corporate Africa"– Exchanges vs Private Equity

Paul Harry AITHNARD – Group Head Asset Management & Research – ECOBANK CAPITAL 
Gabriel FAL - Chairman, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) CEO – CGF Bourse
Zin BEKKALI – Chief Executive – SILK INVEST 
Jean-Marc SAVI DE TOVE – Partner – CAURIS MANAGEMENT

Moderator: Jean-Marie COAT– Journalist, Consultant and Director – CHASKI Communication
Challenges, pitfalls and successes in financing "Corporate Africa"

  • Putting capital at work 
  • Where are the opportunities (Sectors, Geographies, Performances)
  • Investment vehicle available
  • Information reporting
  • Information reporting

17:20pm - 17:50pm :Harvesting growth: the rise of private equity exits in Africa

Ponmile OSIBO – Director – African Venture Capital Association
Dorothy KELSO – Associate Director, EY

17:55pm - 18:05pm : Conclusions

Pascal AGBOYIBOR – Managing Partner – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL
Making your investment in "Corporate Africa" a success 

18:10pm - 19:30pm : Cocktail

 

Presentation : Time to accelerate the investment presence in Africa

Panel : The challenge of financing "Corporate Africa"

Presentation : Harvesting growth: the rise of private equity exits in Africa

Pierre-Yves DENEZ

Of Counsel M&A and Private Equity - ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

Pierre-Yves Denez, resident in Orrick's Paris office, is a member of the Banking & Finance and Private Equity Groups.

He has extensive experience in financial laws and regulations, financial market regulations and asset management. His practice involves advising and assisting French and international clients, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, in relation to (i) the setting-up of funds and funds of funds for general partners in France and abroad, in private equity and real estate sectors, (ii) assisting funds in their investment and divestments transactions, (iii) assisting general partners in the negotiation of investment management agreements, advisory agreements and outsourcing agreements, (iv) liaising with regulatory authorities and ((v) assisting general partners and/or limited partners for any litigations.

Before joining Orrick, Mr. Denez was an associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Dorothy KELSO

Director of Research - AVCA

Dr Kelso is currently an Associate Director in EY’s strategic market intelligence team covering private equity in the EMEIA region.
She is responsible for client-driven market insights, thought leadership and market intelligence, including most recently analysing how private equity firms create value in their investments in Africa.

Prior to EY, Dr Kelso headed up the research team at Coller Capital, a multi-billion dollar global private equity secondaries firm, for five years and before that worked for a consulting firm advising PE clients on strategic positioning, fundraising, and deal-doing.

Dr Kelso has a doctorate in Economics from Warwick University. During her doctorate she worked briefly in Washington DC co-authoring an IMF working paper with IMF economists on the cross-border impact of political instability in West African countries.

Dr Kelso was born in Ghana and lived there until she completed her O-levels.

Gabriel FAL

Chairman, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mob. (BRVM) - CEO CGF Bourse

Financial engineering expert, Gabriel Fal has held numerous financial markets positions.

After studies spent in France and Canada, he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and became in two years its Representative Deputy for West Africa.

As a banker, he was responsible for the Senegal Great Public and Private Accounts, Credit Manager, Executive Vice President of Dakar Citibank and Vice President at London Citibank and Regional “Corporate” Director for Africa.

His assignments led him to work alongside governments, public institutions and large companies. Gabriel Fal contributed to the BRVM start-up before founding in 1998 CGF Bourse, the first IMS certified in Senegal.

In 2011, he won the “Golden Cowrie Best Manager of the Year”, award presented by the Senegal Companies movement (MEDS).

Jean-Luc VOVOR

Chair Person – KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB

Jean-Luc Koffi Vovor is the founder of the Kusuntu Project, a partnership of business leaders and executives which ambitions to promote, act and support the emergence and the development of African Economic Champion thanks to the accretion of private capital worldwide.

He chairs Kusuntu-le-Club, a Think Tank next to that project. Under his leadership, the group has initiated several initiatives, part of which, Kusuntu Partners, an information and advisory service and match making platform on Africa Private Equity.

Jean-Luc is a Managing Partner at Kusuntu Partners, a Paris-based advisory firm specialising in assisting private institutions to access the vast investment opportunity set in Africa. He is graduated in Economics Sciences and Corporate Strategy from the University of Paris Dauphine

Ponmile OSIBO

Director – Africa Venture Capital Association

Ponmile is an Analyst at AVCA, where he is responsible for building AVCA’s research platform and data program.

He also manages stakeholder engagement on various research projects, oversees AVCA’s technology platforms and digital communications.
Prior to joining AVCA, Ponmile worked as a Research Associate in the Global Centre of Excellence at Kumamoto University, Japan, where he researched renewable fuel production from pulsed power application.

Ponmile holds a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Birmingham

Rory ORD

Managing Partner – RisCura Fundamentals

Rory heads up RisCura Fundamentals, and is one of South Africa’s leading experts in valuing African unlisted investments.

He regularly speaks on private equity valuation as well as regulation and performance measurement around Africa and Europe.

Jean-Marc SAVI de TOVE

Partner – Cauris Management

Jean-Marc Savi de Tové joined Cauris in September 2011 with experience in acquisition finance (Credit Lyonnais Americas, New York), private equity fund investments (Hamilton Lane International, Paris; CDC Group, London) and equity research (Credit Lyonnais Asset Management/Credit Agricole Asset Management, Paris).

Jean-Marc was previously with CDC Group, the UK government owned development finance institution where he was Portfolio Director Africa. At CDC, he led on over $ 600m of commitments to African private equity funds, and represented CDC on the boards or advisory committees of 20 funds.
Jean-Marc serves on the Investment Committee of FISEA, a €250m Africa focused fund managed by PROPARCO (Agence Française de Développement Group).

He holds a M.Sc. in Finance from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France).

Jean-Marie COAT

Journalist and Consultant – Managing Director – CHASKI COMMUNICATION

Jean-Marie COAT is a journalist and founder of Chaski Communication, an agency that specializes in international cultural, economic and political issues.

Jean-Marie had a broad network of contact within the entrepreneurial and business world.
Jean-Marie teaches journalism and provides communication advisory services to a number of French and International business and political leaders.

Jean-Marie is graduated from the University of Paris – Sorbonne and from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Entreprise.

Zin BEKKALI

Managing Partner SILK INVEST

Zin Bekkali is the founder and Managing Partner of SILK INVEST, one of the leading frontier markets managers with staff from over 10 different frontier markets and based in 7 different offices.

Zin has extensive experience the investment management industry mainly focusing on emerging markets.
Throughout his career he has successfully entered new markets and managed strategic initiatives.

Zin has a masters in applied Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam, completed his MBA at London Business School and is CFA Charterholder

Paul-Harry AITHNARD

Group Head – Asset Management and Research - ECOBANK

Paul-Harry has been Head of Research for the Ecobank Group since 2008.

Here he oversees a sizeable team of Pan African analysts producing Economic analysis, Industry Research, Commodities Research, African currencies & bonds markets research, as well as product-specific analysis to enable institutional clients to navigate Africa’s complex marketplaces, ensuring the highest level of independence and objectivity in Ecobank’s research.

Pascal AGBOYIBOR

Partner – Global Head Africa Practice – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

Pascal Agboyibor, a partner in Orrick’s Paris office, is a member of the Energy and Infrastructure group.

Pascal Agboyibor heads Orrick’s Africa practice, a multicultural team which includes corporate, finance and dispute resolution lawyers based in Orrick’s offices worldwide and specialized in advising on complex projects in a number of sectors including oil & gas, power, mining, agriculture and infrastructure.

Pascal Agboyibor’s expertise covers significant project financings and M&A transactions for international and local financial institutions, commercial banks, and investors, as well as constructors, power producers and industrial suppliers, in French and English speaking African countries.

Pascal Agboyibor has an in-depth understanding of the local business markets and sociopolitical contexts, and is called on by local African authorities and multilaterals to advise on the development of policy and regulation, particularly with respect to OHADA law and financial markets.

Pascal Agboyibor started his career in 1993 with Jeantet Associés, before joining Watson, Farley & Williams in 2000, whose teams integrated with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2002. Pascal Agboyibor became a partner with Orrick in 2003.

ABOUT THE 3RD AFRICA FINANCE CONFERENCE
Africa has been quoted for a decade as the last economic frontier of the world

Africa has been quoted for a decade as the last economic frontier of the world. With about a billion inhabitants of which many studies and researches indicated there are close to 300 million people with a purchasing power that ranks them, according to the local cost of living, into the middle class category. Africa as such presents a real opportunity for companies worldwide to do business contributing to sustain the global growth while taking out the continent from underdevelopment according to the western definition. And this has to be done with consideration of the goods and the bads experienced by the developed countries. Impact and sustainability through investments must in essence become prominent with a view to allowing an inclusive development of the continent.

According to the Global Impact Investment Network...

According to the Global Impact Investment Network, Impact investing is defined as investments with the intention to generate positive social, economic or environmental impacts beyond financial return. Impact investments can target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending upon the circumstances. In the current process undertaken to define a new asset class on the rise, it becomes paramount to clarify, especially when it comes to companies financing in Africa, what Impact Investing is, being impact as a consequence or impact seeking as the first motivation.

The Africa Finance Conference launched in 2012 by Orrick Rambaud Martel and Kusuntu-le-Club in its third edition brings together a vast array of economic actors

The Africa Finance Conference launched in 2012 by Orrick Rambaud Martel and Kusuntu-le-Club in its third edition brings together a vast array of economic actors engaged in Africa for its economic development. Following an introduction to the African Asset class in 2012 and the review of options so far between private capital investment and investment through organized exchanges, this third conference will focus on positive impacts beyond the financial return.

This conference, organized over a day, is the premier professional meeting place in France between professional investors worldwide and those that are making the economic construction in Africa, entrepreneurs, companies, venture and private capital firms that are backing them as well as finance and development institutions as well as investment promotion agencies supporting this process.

As a forum, African economic actors, professional investors and companies worldwide

As a forum, African economic actors, professional investors and companies worldwide have a unique opportunity to network for business and investment opportunities, through independent one on one or organized meetings alongside key notes presentation and plenary panels’ discussion. The event addresses issues pertaining to investment opportunities in Africa from the philanthropic point up to more financial oriented ones.

You are responsible for strategic and investment decisions within insurance companies

You are responsible for strategic and investment decisions within insurance companies, mutual funds and investment houses, family offices, private banks or corporations larger or smaller and you are interested to know more about your African business development opportunities, you are invited to attend the third Kusuntu Africa Finance Conference in Paris and meet those actors, entrepreneurs, private equity firms, development finance and investment promotion agencies that are building the economic and social development of the African continent.

 

Clic to register

 


KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB

KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB is THINK TANK created by executives and managers for promoting the emergence and the development of African economic champions thanks to private equity investments. Founding members of KUSUNTU are at the origin of the creation of the first electronic information platform on African private equity, notably a directory of actors (GP's, LP's, Funds, who'swho).


ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL is a specialized law firm that offers in France and abroad an exceptional platform of services in cross border operations such as mergers and acquisition, structured finance, leasing asset finance, corporate, tax and social laws. ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL’s lawyers also have strong skills and expertise in dispute resolution including international arbitration.


INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES

INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES (I&P) is an impact investor specialized in financing Small and Medium size companies in Africa. I&P provides capital, technical and strategic support to meet the growth needs of its African partners I&P’s team develops long term partnerships with entrepreneurs, sharing their skills and experience in the management of SMEs, and helping them structure, strategize about, and formalize their business. I&P’s mission is to promote a new generation of African Entrepreneurs who are the main drivers of a more inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa

 

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KUSUNTU AFRICA FINANCE CONFERENCE

Paris February 13, 2015

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Plenary conference and panels

Morning Session

8:15 - 8:55 Registration of participants

  • Coffee
  • Networking

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome note - From the Kusuntu-Orrick Africa Finance Conference to the Paris Africa Finance Conference
Jean-Jacques ESSOMBE – Partner, Banking & Finance Practice – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL

9:15 - 9:35 Opening Remarks – Africa a place for responsible and impactful economic development
Jean-Michel SEVERINO - Chief Executive Officer - INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES

  • The Africa Time, getting the best of the economic development experiences
  • The last frontier offer opportunities for all but needs to keep it the most inclusive and the most responsible

9:35 - 9:55 Presentation 1 – The Building of an Impact Enterprise
Erick RAJAONARY – Chief Executive Officer – GUANOMAD

Challenges and pitfalls in getting an impact business to a success

  • Searching for impact, how are ESG standards implemented
  • Making the search for impact a strategy

10:00 - 10:20 Presentation 2 - The Impact Investing Landscape in Africa: The East Africa Business Case
Abhilash MUDALIAR – Research Manager – The GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK

  • The Impact Fund Industry in Africa (how many funds, which region/sectors do they target, what are the deal size...)
  • Key future opportunities for Impact Investing in East Africa (variation by country, sector, instrument..)

10:20 - 10:35 Break

  • Coffee
  • Networking

GRAND PANEL - INVESTING IN AFRICA: IMPACT FIRST OR FINANCE FIRST, MAKING THE BEST OF THE TWO SITUATIONS

10:40 - 11:30 Panel 1.1 – Impact as a component of Private Equity investment process: how are factored in the ESG principles

Hervé Dieudonné AYISSI – Investment Officer – CENAINVEST
Vivina BERLA – Senior Partner – SARONA ASSET MANAGEMENT
Laureen KOUASSI OLSSON – Investment Director – AMETHIS FINANCE
Paul VAN AASLT – Managing Partner – SOVEC
Martin POULSEN – Managing Partner – The MORINGA PARTNERSHIP

Moderator: Patricia M. DINNEEN – Chair Person Impact Investing Council – The EMERGING MARKETS PRIVATE EQUITY ASSOCIATION
What really drive investors when backing an African company

  • Is impact a marketing element or a real component of the investment strategy
  • Measuring and reporting on impacts, building a paradigm
  • How are impact objectives driving the financial return to investors

11:35 - 12:25 Panel 1.2 – Who are the actors on the African impact investment market and how do they act in building the next African economic champions

Pierre CARPENTIER  – Investment Director – INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES
Olivier DE GUERRE – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer – PHITRUST PARTENAIRES
Christophe POLINE – Head of Sustainable Development – SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Barthout VAN SLINGELANDT – Managing Partner – XSML CAPITAL
Maria Teresa ZAPPIA – Chief Investment Officer – BLUEORCHARD

Moderator: Franck GIAOUI – Managing Partner – HERA FINANCE
Creating the ground for a responsible business creation and development

  • Driving a sustainable development of Africa through social impact investment
  • Is there a universal definition for impact investment when it comes to Africa
  • What are the complementarities between Impact investment, Private Equity and Venture Philanthropy

12:30 - 12:50 Key Notes 2 – How do Development Finance Institutions help in drinving Impact Investing
Marie-Hélène LOISON – Deputy Chief Executive Officer – PROPARCO

  • Amongst other roles such as catalyst for the Private Equity ecosystem in Africa, DFI's are preeminent actors to enforcing sound implementation of ESG principles
  • PROPARCO, a leadership instrument for a renewed economic relationship between France and Africa

12:55 - 13:55 Lunch - Cocktail

  • Lunch cocktail is served in "Le Foyer"
  • Networking

Afternoon session

14:00 - 14:20 Key Notes 3 – Africa is our future - The Economic Diplomacy to leveraging a common growth
Vincent JACOB –Director Companies and International Businesses – THE FRENCH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

  • The new French Economic diplomacy
  • France as a platform for worldwide business with Africa

14:25 - 15:25 Panel 2 – Fostering an impact-friendly environment and securing options for both impact and financial returns

  • Sub Panel 2.1 : Creating the norm

Ann-Katrin DOLIUM – Head of Company Relations MENA & AFRICA – VIGEO
Philippe MONTIGNY – President – ETHIC INTELLIGENCE
Brett STEVENSON – Manager of the Capacity Building Program – The GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK

  • Sub Panel 2.2 : Implementing the norm

Jean-Michel DEBRAT – Social Entrepreneurship Advisor to the CEO – PROPARCO
Pierre Yves DENEZ – Of Consel Private Equity and M&A – ORRICK
Karine SEGUIN – Head of Business Development, Europe – TRIDENT TRUST

Moderator: Alexandre ALFONSI – Managing Partner – AXONIA PARTNERS
From sourcing to the return, how to factor in all the ingredients

  • How governments are helping broadening the impact culture
  • What actions are being taken by companies and governments
  • What environment could foster the development of impact driven investments: what kind of framework? What government standards? How to improve the business climate, are SRI or Impact rating a catalyst

15:30 – 15:50 – Closing remarks: Putting the Wheels into Motion for Investing in Africa
Isabelle BEBEAR – Managing Director – BPI France

  • BPI France : Why Africa, why now and how
  • Translating the BPI experience into African Private Equity Investment

One on One meetings session

The second part is reserved for professional meetings. Participants to second part are all business and finance professional. Attendance is submitted to prior registration on the Kusuntu Meeting Registration platform.

16:00 – 18:30 – Business Meetings

  • Organized meeting: based upon scheduled registration
  • Free meetings between registrants

 

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Provided by

GIIN SEMINAR:  RAISING IMPACT INVESTING CAPITAL

Paris, February 13, 2015

Supported by
 

Special Post conference training event by the GIIN

This training is open only to fund principals and delivers significant value for the price, as it has been subsidized in order to be affordable for small funds.

The number of place is limited (Max 30)

Through data and case studies from across the market, this training will give fund managers the insight, resources, and support to effectively design and market a fund that is appealing to today’s impact investment LPs.

Venue and Timing

The venue is supported by Group La Française, a Paris based Asset Management Company. The training is scheduled to start at 8:30 and will end at 16:00. A lunch is organized from 12:30 to 13:30.

What does the training cover?

You’ll learn how to design a fund that best leverages your situation to successfully raise capital. Experts will help you:

  1. Designing a fund with sound economics and compelling value proposition
  2. Understanding the diverse types and various approaches of investors with an interest in social and/or environmental impact
  3. Crafting an effective marketing pitch with differentiated marketing approaches for different investor types
  4. Bringing the market into focus, training session are designed around regional patterns of investment, examples of investor action and successful fundraises; including:
    • Market data illustrating trends and best practices
    • Success stories from new funds having recently secured capital commitments, with details on how they broke through fundraising barriers
    • Insights from investors about what stands out and makes a difference in a fund design and pitch
    • Examples of what today's leading investors are working on and thinking about.

What do participants receive?

You’ll receive individualized support and practical tools to take back to your teams, along with learning from peers and special guest LPs. Specifically, you’ll leave with:

  1. Custom tools for assessing fund economics and design
  2. Individualized post-seminar mentorship
  3. Resources to provide follow-on information for participants who want to go deeper
  4. Improved networking and connections with the GIIN and other industry players

This training is open only to fund principals and delivers significant value for the price, as it has been subsidized in order to be affordable for small funds.

Participation will be limited to funds intentionally creating social impact through their investments.

RFI Podcast 12 février 2015

Dossier_Afrique_ECO_13-02-15_AFRIK_ECO_-_13_02_DOSSIER_AFRIQUE_2_12_2015-18.mp3

Les Afriques - Avril 2016 - Fonds d'investissement en Afrique

Les Afriques 352 Avr 2016 JLKV-1.pdf

African Banker - Faire connaitre le capital investissement

ITW JL abkf28_livre.pdf

Forbes Afrique - L'Impact Investing, cette chance pour les entrepreneurs africains

forbes_afrique-ace_article_feb_2015 JLKV.pdf

Financial Afrik - 3ème Conférence Kusuntu-Orrick à Paris

FinAfrik Report Conf KST 2015.pdf

Eco Gabon - Un succès au-délas de toute attente

Eco Gabon Plus Conf KST 2015.pdf

Eco Gabon - N36 - Le capital investissement en fort développement en Afrique

ECOGAB-N°36_2015-JLKV.pdf

AltAssets - French SME support model could provide template for Africa growth

AltAssets JLKV January 2015.pdf

African Banker Summer 2015

African Banker JLKV Summer 2015.pdf
Abhilash MUDALIAR
Research Manager - The GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK
Alexandre ALFONSI
Managing Partner - AXONIA PARTNERS
Ann Katrin DOLIUM
Head of Institutional Relations - VIGEO
Barthout Van SLINGELANDT
Managing Partner - XSML CAPITAL
Brett STEVENSON
Manager, Capacity Building Program - The GIIN
Christophe POLINE
Head of Responsible Investment - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Claude PERIOU
Chief Executive Officer - PROPARCO
Didier ACOUETEY
Founder & Managing Partner - AFRICSEARCH
Erick RAJAONARY
Chief Executive Officer - GUANOMAD
Franck GIAOUI
Founder & Managing Partner - HERA FINANCE
Hervé Dieudonné AYISSI
Investment Officer - CENAINVEST
Isabelle BEBEAR
Managing Director - BPI FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
Jean-Jacques ESSOMBE
Partner - Finance Group - ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL
Jean-Luc VOVOR
Chair Person – KUSUNTU-LE-CLUB
Jean-Michel DEBRAT
Chief Executive Officer AFRICAFRANCE FOUNDATION
Jean-Michel SEVERINO
Chairman - INVESTISSEURS & PARTENAIRES
Karine SEGUIN
Head of Business Development Europe - TRIDENT FUND SERVICE
Laureen KOUASSI OLSSON
Investment Director - AMETHIS FINANCE
Maria Teresa ZAPPIA
Chief Investment Officer - BLUEORCHARD
Marie-Hélène LOISON
Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Investments - PROPARCO
Martin POULSEN
Partner - The MORINGA PARTNERSHIP
Olivier DE GUERRE
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - PHITRUST PARTENAIRES
Pascal AGBOYIBOR
Partner – Global Head Africa Practice – ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL
Patricia M. DINNEEN
Chair Person - Impact Investing Council - EMPEA
Paul Van AALST
Managing Partner - SOVEC
Philippe MONTIGNY
CEO - ETHIC Intelligence
Pierre CARPENTIER
Investment Director - INVESTISSEURS ET PARTENAIRES
Pierre-Yves DENEZ
Of Counsel M&A and Private Equity - ORRICK RAMBAUD MARTEL
Vincent JACOB
Director International Economy - FRANCE MINISTERY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Vivina BERLA
Senior Managing Partner - SARONA ASSET MANAGEMENT

Africa a place for responsible and impactful investment

 

Interview with Erick Rajaonary

 

Impact Investing in East Africa

 

Impact as a component of the PE Investment Process

 

Role and Challenges of Impact Investors in Africa

 

The catalytic role of a DFI on Impact Investing

 

Africa and the French Economic Diplomacy

 

Fostering an impactful environment by creating the norms

 

Monitoring good achievement of Impacts

 

Towards more French investments into African companies

 

Auditorium Orrick Rambaud Martel

31, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
75016 Paris
Métro Iena

Time :
Conference: From 09:00 to 16:00
Business session: From 16:30 to 18:30

 


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Auditorium La Française Group

173, Boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris
Métro Saint-Philippe-du-Roule

Time :
GIIN Seminar: From 08:30 to 17:00


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