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Africa, Gabon
Olam chooses Port Louis over London to registrer its Arise Infrastructure fund

While Olam set up its first fund, Arise Ports & Logistics, in London, from where its partner, AP Moeller Capital, runs its operations, the agribusiness giant has chosen Mauritius's more welcoming fiscal landscape for its second and third funds, Arise Infrastructure and Arise Special Economic Zone. [...]

Published on 31/08/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Afreximbank
Africa Finance Corp
AP Moller Capital
Arise Airport
Arise Infrastructure
Arise Port & Logistics
Arise Special Economic Zone
Egis
Gagan Gupta
Meridiam
Ocorian
Olam
Samaila Zubairu

Ivory Coast
Patrick Achi plots to acquire Bouygues stake in Abidjan toll bridge

Two of the main shareholders in Socoprim, which runs the Henri-Konan-Bédié toll bridge in Abidjan, have reservations about a state pension fund acquiring Bouygues's shares in the venture.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 11.11.2022

Gabon
IMF questions Arise IIP tax exemptions

An International Monetary Fund team left Gabon early this week after a long annual consultation mission during which it laid out its conditions for granting the country a new loan programme. They include the scrapping of numerous tax and customs exemption regimes, and in particular one in place for the Nkok special economic zone.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 10.06.2021

West Africa
Afreximbank in talks to acquire stake in OLAM-backed industrial fund Arise IIP

African Export-Import Bank could soon buy shares in one of three funds dedicated to investments in Africa owned by Indian-Singaporean agrifood business Olam.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 07.06.2021

Rwanda
Arise IIP scouting for industrial zones

Gagan Gupta travelled to Rwanda earlier in April with electric rickshaw company Mauto Electric CEO Mansoor Ali Khan.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 21.04.2021

Africa
Olam and AFC call on lobbyists to help develop their industrial parks

The Arise IIP fund, which combines Nigeria's Africa Finance Corp and Indo-Singaporean agribusiness giant Olam, has appointed a team of advisors to lobby the governments of the countries where the fund invests and the international bodies that regulate industrial parks.

Subscribers only Business 12.02.2021

Central Africa
CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

The six members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) are planning a round table in November to raise funds for the construction of roads and electricity plants.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 07.10.2020

Spotlight | Africa, United Kingdom
City of London spreads net in Africa as Brexit looms

The London financial centre, which risks seeing its position in Europe weakened by Brexit, is looking to conquer new markets, notably in Africa. One of the instruments it is using to further its financial influence is financial certification institution CISI.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 15.09.2020

Spotlight | Mauritius
Axis wants to burst into Mauritian trust market

The Harel family has sold its financial arm to Axis Fiduciary. The young trust company now finds itself up against the families firmly established in offshore finance on the island - Ah-Chuen, Lagesse, Dalais or Espitalier-Noel - as well as stiffer competition from international groups.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 02.09.2020

Rogers House in Port-Louis, headquarters to the Espitalier-Noë family group, a symbol of the island's financial establishment.

Inner circles | Central Africa, Gabon, West Africa
Gagan Gupta's French troops

Though now active in Africa via the three Arise mega-funds, Indian-Singaporean agribusiness giant Olam still relies on French advisors to help guide its path.

Subscribers only Business 04.06.2020

Ivory Coast, West Africa
Arise Industrial lays the first stone in its future African free zone empire in Akoupé-Zeudji

After setting up Arise Port & Logistics with AP Moller, then Arise Infrastructure, to invest in roads, agricultural trading giant Olam has created a third brand dedicated to industrial free zones. Arise Industrial is preparing to make its first investment in Ivory Coast.

Subscribers only Business 20.05.2020

Mauritania
Arise caught in crosswinds over Nouakchott port project

Already the target of a parliamentary enquiry, Arise Mauritanie, the joint venture that is now building and is later supposed to operate Nouakchott's new container terminal, is also firmly in the sights of the head of the city's port complex.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance, Politics 16.04.2020

Gabon
Olam pushes ahead with its withdrawal

Having set up in very short order the holding company Arise P&L, which has taken over its investments in the ports of Gabon, Olam is poised to do likewise in the transport sector.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 01.04.2020

Gabon
State cedes its port shares to Olam and AP Moller

Last week, Olam and the fund manager AP Moller Capital, an offshoot of the Danish container logistics company AP Moller-Maersk, [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.02.2020

West Africa
Leading asset manager Meridiam teams up with Olam on African ports

Without waiting for the financing of the extension to the port of Nouakchott to be finalised last week, the investment firm Meridiam and Singapore's Olam started works two months ago.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 25.09.2019

In Focus | Gabon
Gagan Gupta, Ali Bongo's favourite Indian tycoon

While French multinationals in Gabon have gone broke like Rougier and Necotrans or battle with the presidency like Veolia and Eramet, Indo-Singaporean group Olam has gone from strength to strength. The man behind its success, its Gabon country director Gagan Gupta, has succeeded in forging close links with the Gabonese presidency.

Subscribers only Finance 09.08.2018

Gabon
Olam launches its big transport offensive

The Singaporean company's diversification, spearheaded by Gagan Gupta, will reinforce its dominant position in the country.

Subscribers only Business 22.11.2017

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Arise Airport
Arise Infrastructure
Arise Port & Logistics
Arise Special Economic Zone
Egis
Gagan Gupta
Meridiam
Ocorian
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Samaila Zubairu

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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Africa, Gabon
Olam chooses Port Louis over London to registrer its Arise Infrastructure fund

Ivory Coast
Patrick Achi plots to acquire Bouygues stake in Abidjan toll bridge

Gabon
IMF questions Arise IIP tax exemptions

West Africa
Afreximbank in talks to acquire stake in OLAM-backed industrial fund Arise IIP

Rwanda
Arise IIP scouting for industrial zones

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Central Africa
CEMAC seeks $3.3bn to finance infrastructure projects

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Gagan Gupta's French troops

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