Helios Investment Partners

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Helios Investment Partners
Company typeAfrican focused private investments
Industry Private equity
Venture capital
Founded2004
FoundersBabatunde Soyoye
Tope Lawani
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Luciana Germinario
Nitin Kaul
Paul Cunningham (CFO)
Nimit Shah
Henry Obi
Website Homepage

Helios Investment Partners is a private equity investing firm operating in Africa and based in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria. [1]

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Overview

Helios Investment Partners was established in 2004 by Babatunde Soyoye and Tope Lawani and it operates a range of funds valued at more than $3 billion in capital commitments. These investments include start ups, growth equity investments, listed companies and large scale leveraged acquisitions across the continent of Africa. [2]

The key sectors in which the firm operates in include telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics and Agro–allied sectors. [1]

Portfolio

Current investments

Helios Investment Partners portfolio investments include but are not limited to the following: [3] [4]

NumberInvestmentIndustryOwnershipHead office
1Africa Oil Corp Oil and Gas 12.4%Vancouver, Canada
2AfricatelTelecommunication22.0%Lisbon, Portugal
3Afsat Communications ICT 55.0%Nairobi, Kenya
4ARM Pension ManagersFinancial Services-Lagos, Nigeria
5Bayport Management LimitedFinancial Services23.4%Ebene, Mauritius
6Continental Outdoor Media Outdoor Advertising 68.8% Bryanston, South Africa
7 Eland Oil & Gas Oil and Gas29.36%Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
8Fawry Financial Services 40%Cairo, Egypt
9 First City Monument Bank Financial Services16.0%Lagos, Nigeria
10Flamingo Holdings Horticulture 8.5%Nairobi, Kenya
11 Helios Towers LimitedTelecommunication28.6%London, United Kingdom
12Helios Towers Nigeria LimitedTelecommunication22.5%Lagos, Nigeria
13Impact Oil & Gas LimitedOil and Gas13.6% Woking, United Kingdom
14 Interswitch Limited Financial Services52.0%Lagos, Nigeria
15Petrobras International Braspetro B.V.Oil and Gas- Rotterdam, Netherlands
16Wananchi Group HoldingsICT-Nairobi, Kenya

Exited Investments

References

  1. 1 2 "Company Overview of Helios Investment Partners LLP". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  2. "Welcome to Helios Investment Partners". Helios Investment Partners. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  3. "HIP – Representative Investments". HIP. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. "Helios Investment Partners LLP". PSEPS Venture Capital and Private Equity Database. Retrieved 12 November 2015.