Headline Sponsor
Managed by a team of highly experienced professionals, Ithmar Capital is a private equity specialist with local and international expertise, connectivity and industry insight. With offices in Dubai and London, Ithmar Capital targets exceptional growth capital and buyout opportunities in companies that are either GCC based or GCC related (if international).
With a focus on innovation and value creation, Ithmar Capital brings together a set of unique core competencies that makes the firm a very distinctive player across the GCC industry. A first for the region, Ithmar Capital has entered into a strategic alliance with global private equity leader 3i, combining regional knowledge and network with true global reach and international best practices. Through the firm’s regional shareholders and investors, Ithmar Capital uses its high profile partnerships and connectivity to actively support the success of its portfolio companies.
Extensive hands-on experience and best in class corporate governance coupled with an exceptional team with years of industry experience reflects Ithmar Capital’s expertise and commitment to the region.
Currently managing proprietary investments in excess of $500million in some of the most attractive sectors across the region, Ithmar Capital is planning to launch its third fund (Ithmar Fund III), targeting $1billion during the 2nd half of 2008.
Ithmar Capital’s vision is to be the leading regional private equity firm in terms of conduct and return.
Diamond Sponsor
M’Sharie LLC is the corporate venture capital arm of Dubai Investments PJSC (DI). It specializes in private equity investments in high growth medium and large scale establishments in the Middle East region.
M’Sharie’s key operations include identifying investment opportunities, establishing ventures, extending comprehensive financial, management and administrative support to the project and creating the right environment to attain optimal results. The company’s target sector includes manufacturing, trading and service industries in the UAE and other GCC countries.
On a macro level, M’Sharie facilitates growth of entrepreneurial communities in the region resulting in economic growth, international competitiveness and job creation.
Within just ten years of its inception, M’Sharie has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most successful establishments in the private equity field in the Gulf region and one of DI’s biggest success stories. With 17 subsidiaries under its umbrella, the company ranks as the leader in the UAE private equity sector.
The vision behind the success of the M’Sharie is to forge strategic partnerships with existing business enterprises that have demonstrable potential. Using the combined skills of the M’Sharie team and the company’s own management team, the business is steered to even greater levels of profitability and success.
Operating in a number of business sectors from interior design to district cooling stations, telecom, construction materials, switchgears and other infrastructure and technology related industries and service sectors, M’Sharie looks to buy companies that become, or remain, leaders in their respective fields dedicated to offering customers the best products and services in their class, therefore contributing to the overall prosperity of the region.
The company is constantly assessing new investment opportunities which can bring benefits, and complement, its existing portfolio of companies.
Leveraging the rich market intelligence gained in the UAE Private Equity sector, M’Sharie has been focusing on creating value through developing new lasting markets and seeking opportunistic investments across the Middle East. Through its aggressive expansion plans, M’Sharie is positioning itself as the dominant player in the Middle East’s fast growing Private Equity field, even while contributing the UAE’s economic growth and developing targeted sectors of the country.