{"id":59170,"date":"2023-03-02T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=59170"},"modified":"2024-05-24T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:44:31","slug":"https-middleeastpostbox-com-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/https-middleeastpostbox-com-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Capital Voted \u201cBest Private Equity Firm of the Year in MENA\u201d at the Private Equity International Awards 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gulf Capital<\/a>, one of the largest and most active private equity firms investing from the Gulf region to South and Southeast Asia, announced today that it has\u00a0been voted as the \u201cBest Private Equity Firm in MENA\u201d by global industry peers at the Private\u00a0Equity International (\u201cPEI\u201d) 2022 Awards.<\/p>\n

Gulf Capital received the highest industry recognition through votes by industry peers and experts from around the globe. The PEI Awards, considered to be the only independent international industry awards voted for the industry, by the industry, celebrate excellence in the private equity industry and showcase companies that exhibit true leadership and set the benchmark during the year, in the eyes of industry peers.<\/p>\n

Gulf Capital has established a long track record of building global leaders out of the Gulf region with rapid expansion across Asia and the rest of the world, through an active \u201cBuy and Build\u201d approach. Gulf Capital\u2019s portfolio companies operate today across 57 countries around the world and a number of them have been sold to large strategic buyers who are looking for truly global platforms to acquire. A good example of a recent global exit and a successful competitive auction was the sale of Chef Middle East in November 2022 to NASDAQ-listed The Chefs\u2019 Warehouse (NASDAQ: CHEF) for US$ 100 million, generating 2.5x return on this investment.<\/p>\n

As a thematic investor, Gulf Capital is investing today in five priority sectors, namely Technology\u00a0and Fintech, Healthcare and HealhTech, Business Services, Consumer and Sustainability \u2013 all\u00a0growing at double digit rates. The Firm is focused on control growth buyouts, with 81% of all private equity transactions to date involving a majority stake. Gulf Capital is also focused on\u00a0deep operational improvements, thanks to its deep bench of 23 industry advisors and\u00a0Press Release\u00a0operating partners. In 2022, Gulf Capital\u2019s portfolio companies achieved double digit growth\u00a0rates and record profitability, reflecting the strong health of the Gulf economies and the strong\u00a0momentum of its priority sectors. Portfolio companies owned by the $750 million GC Equity\u00a0Partners III Fund managed by Gulf Capital, and the largest private equity fund in the Middle\u00a0East, reported, on average, profitability (EBITDA) growth of 22% annually over the last three\u00a0years. As a result of this strong performance, the fair value of GC Equity Partners III increased\u00a0by a remarkable 62% over the last two years, despite a sharp global stock market correction in
\n2022.<\/p>\n

Dr Karim El Solh, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Capital, said:\u201cWe are honoured\u00a0to receive the \u2018Best Private Equity Firm in MENA\u2019 Award from Private Equity International for\u00a0the year 2022. This award, based on independent voting from global industry peers, is a\u00a0testament to Gulf Capital\u2019s strong performance and exceptional delivery in 2022. We are\u00a0fortunate to have invested in true market leaders that are growing at remarkable speed,\u00a0through a mix of acquisitions and organic growth. The strong health of the underlying\u00a0economies has also provided further growth momentum to our portfolio companies, with\u00a0Saudi Arabia growing at 8.7% and the United Arab Emirates at 7.6% in 2022, two of the fastest\u00a0growing economies in the world today. With our newly opened office in Singapore, we are\u00a0continuously looking to expand our portfolio companies from the Gulf region to South and\u00a0Southeast Asia, which is today the fastest growing investment corridor in the world. Our focus\u00a0on control growth buyouts and deep operational improvements in this high growth investment\u00a0corridor is highly differentiated, and we are incredibly grateful for the recognition from our\u00a0global industry peers at the 2022 Private Equity International Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active private equity firms investing from the Gulf region to South and Southeast Asia, announced today that it has\u00a0been voted as the \u201cBest Private Equity Firm in MENA\u201d by global industry peers at the Private\u00a0Equity International (\u201cPEI\u201d) 2022 Awards. Gulf Capital received the highest industry recognition through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59172,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170\/revisions\/59172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}