INCE|Connect - Who’s doing what in the South African & African M&A space?

• Afrocentric Investment has acquired through its subsidiary ACT Healthcare Assets, a 74% stake in Activo from WAD, SE Claassen and JPF Martin. The acquisition is the result of the exercise of a call option granted in 2015 when Afrocentric acquired a 26% interest. The purchase consideration of R588 million will be funded by cash and the issue of shares valued at R133,78 million.
• Emira Property Fund, as part of its strategy to accelerate the reduction of its exposure to offices assets, has disposed of a portfolio of 25 office assets and associated letting enterprises for R1,8 billion. The acquiring entity, Shankly Property Investments is owned by Zungu Investment (51%), Boyno Trade and Invest (29%) and Emira (20%). The total consideration represents a disposal yield of 10.47% and will be settled through the payment of R1,48 billion in cash and the remaining balance to be deferred over a period of five years.
• Transcend Residential Property Fund has acquired 2,159 residential units spread across eight properties for R1,27 billion. The properties acquired from International Housing Solutions Residential Partners 1 and Sunnyshore Trade and Invest 105, are effectively owned by SAWHF PVE (SA). The transactions will be funded 40% with equity which has been fully underwritten and 60% with debt. Following the acquisitions, Transcend intends to apply for a migration to the Main Board of the JSE.
• Ayo Technology Solutions and Vunani have announced a R100 million fintech tie-up to expand the fintech platform and financial services activities of Vunani. The focus of the joint venture will include payment technologies, online insurance, lending and banking, digitisation of securities trading, the use of cryptocurrencies, robo advisers and the application of artificial intelligence.
• Grand Parade Investments has, together with DR Gaming Technology, acquired Africa-based distributor Simplicit-e Gaming Solutions for an undisclosed sum.
• Datatec subsidiary Logicalis Australia, has acquired Computer Network Integration (CNI) a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Certified Gold Partner, based in Melbourne.
• Net1 UEPS Technologies has entered into a strategic relationship with Zapper, a South African quick response (QR) payments technology company with operations in SA, UK and the US. Net1 and Zapper will partner to launch ZappGroup Africa a company focussed on deploying a universal white-label QR payment solution. A newly formed entity, V2, will be an Africa-focused technology provider in which Net1 will take a 50% stake for $5 million (R73,5 million) and will commit an additional $5 million towards working capital funding over a period. V2 owns 67% of ZappGroup Africa which has a perpetual exclusive license for Zappers' QR technology in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Zapper holds the remaining 33% interest.
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• Cognition has entered into a share purchase agreement in relation to Private Property South Africa, a local property portal with a significant market share in the SA property market. The 50.01% stake will be acquired from CTP, a subsidiary of Caxton and CTP Publishers. The total purchase consideration of R127 million will be settled through the issue of 105,833,333 Cognition shares at 120 cents per share. The issue of considerations shares will result in Caxton becoming the controlling shareholder (70%) and Cognition will by virtue of the issue of the consideration shares become part of the Caxton group of companies. Caxton will seek a waiver of a mandatory offer.
• Ethos Capital via its Mid-Market Fund I, has made a 60% investment in South African-based consumer technology distributor, Gammatek for an undisclosed sum.
• Hammerson plc is to dispose of a 50% stake in Highcross shopping centre in Leicester for 236 million (R4,55 billion). The deal creates a new 472 million joint venture with an Asian investor introduced by M&G Real Estate.
• Rebosis Property Fund has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ascension Properties, accepted an offer received from Flameup Investments for the purchase of a property in Cape Town known as Grand Central Building for R600 million. The disposal of the office buildings forms part of the company's strategy to be a retail focused fund.

Unlisted Companies

• Tritech Media, the media technology company, has disposed of its 45% stake in market-leading payments enablement company Crossgate to Crossfin. As part of the deal, black-owned Randvest Capital will also acquire a 30% interest in Crossgate.
• GroCapital has acquired 99.82% stake in The South African Bank of Athens for R300,9 million. The remaining shareholders have been offered R9.13 per share.

...... and in Africa

• ENI (MI:ENI) has signed a Letter of Intent with BP (LON:BP) which will launch the process for ENI to obtain a 41.5% participating interest in BP's Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement in Libya with the aim of unlocking the exploration potential of the operations which have remained suspended since 2014.
• Vast Resources, the AIM listed mining company with operations in Romania and Zimbabwe has concluded an agreement with Botswana Diamonds as a partner in the development of the Heritage Concession in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe. Botswana Diamonds will provide Vast Resources free of charge the benefit of its knowhow on aspects of exploration, mining, processing and marketing in relation to the Heritage Concession while Vast Resources will contribute up to $1 million on loan account as the first funding to the newly established SPV. Any funds required in addition to this will be regarded as an equity contribution.
• Microtraction, a Nigerian investment company, has announced an investment in Accounteer, an online accounting software for small and medium scale businesses. The terms of the investment were not revealed.
• I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2, has invested in three African SMEs - Afribon, which specialises in the development, production and marketing of food flavours; African Management Initiative which blends online and in-person training in the workplace and; CoinAfrique which is a mobile platform designed to sell and pub products within a community of users.
• Enko Capital Managers, managers of the Enko Africa Private Equity Fund, has completed an investment in Network Industry and Services (NETIS), a company specialising in the design, construction, installation and management of telecom infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. The investment will fund NETIS' capital needs to strengthen its position in its existing markets (Cote d'Ivoire, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Togo) and support its expansion strategy into other countries in Africa.

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