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The Dubai-based company, which manages more than $7.5 billion in assets, is considering dozens of buyout opportunities, a “fair proportion” of which are listed companies it wants to take private, Arif Naqvi, 48, Abraaj’s group chief executive officer, said in an interview late yesterday. The best opportunities are in
“There are companies on the market today that I would salivate to buy at these levels,” Naqvi said at his
Abraaj, set up in 2002, accounts for about 25 per cent of all private equity funds raised in the
In 2007, Abraaj completed the $1.41 billion acquisition of Egyptian Fertilizers Co., the region’s largest leveraged buyout.
Abraaj will wait until shares of target companies have been stable for three or four months before making offers, Naqvi said. At this stage, an offer would be “termed opportunistic” and Abraaj is keen to forge partnerships with companies’ existing management to boost performance rather than to make predatory advances.
There are not many publicly traded companies in the oil and gas sector, although “there is Dana Gas, which in my opinion is cheap and has a fragmented shareholding, and my guess is that it would be easy” to take it private, Fadi Al Said, head of equities at ING Investment Management (Dubai) Ltd., said in a phone interview.
“Maybe some of the recently floated companies in the petrochemicals sector” could be targets, he added.
Abraaj is “having a dialogue” with the shareholders or management at several companies that it didn’t identify. Loans to part-fund some buyouts are available despite the credit environment and the sentiment against leveraged buyouts, Naqvi said. Bloomberg
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