Equity firms make beeline for Kenya

Executive Director of the East Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) Eva Warigia (right) and Sheel Gill, partner and head of strategy and deal advisory at KPMG launch this year's edition of the Private Equity survey.

Kenya leads the region in private equity investment as investors angle for a slice of the country’s growing financial services, energy and natural resources sectors.

Data from the 2017 Private Equity Survey released by consulting firm KPMG and the East Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) indicates Kenyan firms took 61 per cent of deals signed in the region last year alone.