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Atlas Mara Limited, formerly referred to as Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited, is a financial services holding company formed to undertake the acquisition of target banks in Africa with the objective of becoming a leading financial services group in the continent. The Group's headquarters are located in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with subsidiaries and investments in Botswana, Germany, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ==History== Atlas Mara was founded on November 28, 2013 by former Barclays Executive Bob Diamond and entrepreneur Ashish Thakkar through Atlas Merchant Capital LLC and Mara Group Holdings Limited as their investment vehicles respectively. Atlas Merchant Capital LLC held 80% while Mara Group Holdings Limited held 20% of the venture upon incorporation. The Group's geographical area of focus is on the African continent. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange on December 17, 2013 through an IPO which raised USD 325 million. March 31, 2014 Atlas Mara announced that it had made an offer to acquire sub-Saharan African bank ABC Holdings Limited and Frankfurt based African Development Corporation AG (ADC) for approximately $265 million. This was to be done through a three phase acquisition strategy: * The group would acquire 50.1% stake of BancABC through direct agreements. * The group would make a voluntary offer to acquire a majority stake in ADC, bringing total ownership in BancABC up to 88%. * The group would make a subsequent mandatory offer for the remaining 12% stake in BancABC. This acquisition would give the group presence in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and a minority stake in the Union Bank of Nigeria. The Transaction was scheduled to be completed in the forth quarter of 2014. On May 24, 2014, the Board of Atlas Mara announced that the group would be acquiring Government of Rwanda's 77% shareholding in the commercial arm of the Rwanda Development Bank (BRD). In September 2014, Atlas Mara acquired a 20.9 percent stake in the Union Bank of Nigeria from Asset Management Company of Nigeria for $270 million, putting its total holding in the firm at almost 30 percent. On September 22, 2014, Atlas Mara made a mandatory offer for remaining 4.2% outstanding shareholding in ABC Holdings that the group did not hold in ABCH. The minority shareholders would either opt for a cash consideration or receive 0.0683 ordinary shares of Atlas Mara for each ABCH share held. This will lead to the delisting of ABC Holdings from both the Botswana and Zimbabwe Stock Exchanges. This delisting was finally concluded on November 28, 2014. On October 16, 2014, Atlas Mara announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of the Development Bank of Rwanda's commercial banking business which had been span off into a new subsidiary following an internal reorganization of BRD. This subsidiary was incorporated to run the commercial loan portfolio, BRD's Insurance brokerage firm and a piece of a commercial plot adjacent to BRD’s Kigali headquarters. As at October 18, 2014, the newly formed Commercial Bank was yet to be given an official name and was awaiting a commercial banking license from the National Bank of Rwanda. In April 2015, the group announced its intention to acquire a significant minority interest in Banque Populaire du Rwanda SA (BPR). The group would then marge BPR's business to that span off BRD then acquire secondary shares from existing shareholders resulting in the Company having a controlling stake of the merged business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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