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CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING: Navigating the Complexities of Private Equity Exits: Expert Lessons from East Africa

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany News News & AnalysisApril 16, 2025April 16, 2025

Private equity (PE) transactions are often hailed as engines of economic growth, bringing much-needed capital to businesses and boosting their expansion potential. However, poor planning and misaligned expectations between investors and investee companies have emerged as key stumbling blocks, leading to acrimonious exits, unrealised value, and losses. This sentiment was extensively discussed at the East Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) Annual Conference 2024 at the luxurious Speke Resort Convention Centre in Kampala. The conference, among others, featured a distinguished panel of experts, including Richard Mugera, Associate Partner at Ascent Capital Uganda; Marieke Geurts, the Investment Director at…

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Who is Anthony Natif, the pharmapreneur behind Guardian Health- one of a few Ugandan million-dollar private equity exits

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & Markets The Big StoryJuly 12, 2023July 12, 2023

As a student at the Graduate School of the University of Washington in the USA, what first struck the then 28-year-old Antony Natif was the quality of healthcare in the developed world. Back home in Uganda, his countrymen and women were suffering under the yoke of limited access to life-saving drugs. “More than 40% of counterfeit medicine seizures are on the African continent and by some estimates, at least 30% of medicines sold in this part of the world are either falsified or substandard and that’s not to talk about ability or inability, that is, of our people to…

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