MENA Private Equity Association has launched a VC legal documentation guide designed to give entrepreneurs a practical understanding of the basic terms involved in a venture capital transaction.
The guide focuses on issues specific to the Middle East and North Africa, and also includes a standard term-sheet template format. Standardized doc...
E-commerce in the region is reaching the tipping point, as the market seems more mature to deal with this type of commerce, yesterday LivingSocial one of the leading group buying sites in the world acquired GoNabit.
Earlier this month, Ideavelopers closed a deal with Sherif Nassar, Founder and CEO of nefsak.com, where Ideavelopers will invest 1...
Zynga which owns the most popular games on Facebook such as farmville and city Ville was sued by an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm that claims it is being denied the chance to purchase a stake in the company - according to Bloomberg.
Alpha Investment has a contract to buy one million shares of closely held Zynga from Andrew Trader, a former exe...
ArabCrunch over Twitter around a week ago said that AC's founder was aware he was under surveillance, he confirmed that he was aware since several months ( might mean 5-7 or 20 or 40:) (surveillance: that does not necessarily mean on the ground or just online by NSA, we do not comment at this point for security reasons.)
The leak from the US S...
It is not a jock Obama's administration plan for "entrepreneurship" in the Muslim and Arab world, as the U.S. government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved recently a total of $455 million in financing to support the establishment of five private equity investment funds.
We have gathered data about the U.S. federal ...
Arab Sovereign Funds are becoming more active investing in Media and IT companies around the world, on thursday Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) has made an investment in Pearson Publishing the owner of Financial Times. LIA bought 3.01% stake in Pearson for $324 Million, making it the 3rd largest share holder. Pearson is listed in the London and ...
For some it is a sad day, for others it is a new endeavor, today Indian conglomerate Bharti has officially closed its deal with Kuwait based Telecom operator Zain, with its acquisition of all Zain’s mobile operations in 15 countries across Africa for an valuation of USD10.7 billion. Zain’s African covered 15 countries with a total cust...
Capinnova Investment Bank, the Shari’a compliant investment banking arm of BBK (Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait), announced 2 days ago a minority investment of $20 million in EBLA Computer Consultancy.
EBLA was established in Kuwait in 1993, and currently has subsidiaries in Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and branch offices in Syria, Jorda...
Foursan Group, Jordan based private equity firm, announced yesterday the launch of its second fund, Foursan Capital Partners I (“FCP”), a multi-country, multi-sector private equity fund targeting investments in accelerated growth companies in Jordan and surrounding countries in the Levant and North Africa (Belad Al Sham and Al Maghreb Al Arabi...
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