AFRICA Ethiopia
Advisory Firm of the Year
EY Ethiopia, the premier transaction advisory firm in Eastern Africa, is very honored that we have been selected as “Advisory Firm of the Year” by “Global - 100”, commented Zemedeneh Negatu, Managing Partner and Head of Transaction Advisory Services for Ernst & Young Ethiopia. Zemedeneh further commented by saying “this win further validates our caliber and reputation as a leading provider of sophisticated and complex M&A services to our clients across Africa”.
In the past few years EY Ethiopia has advised numerous high profile clients ranging from multinationals such as Diageo plc of the UK on their successful acquisition of Meta Brewery for $225 million to the transformation of Ethiopian Airlines from a relatively small African airline in the mid-nineties to become the second largest and more profitable than all African airlines combined and the first to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. In July 2013, EY Ethiopia successfully advised the government of Malawi on the establishment of the new national flag carrier – Malawi Airlines, Ltd, a unique PPP joint venture.
Commenting on the positive economic trends in Africa and how his firm is contributing, Zemedeneh said “we have invested heavily in our firm’s transactional capacity in Ethiopia and across Africa and as a result, we are now the “go to firm” for virtually all major transaction advisory projects especially the ones which focus on what we call the “Capital Agenda” whereby we closely work with our clients on raising financing, both debt and equity, structuring deals end to end and much more”.
Continuing his comments, Zemedeneh said, “for example we are currently the transaction advisors for one of the world’s largest private equity funds on a major investment in Africa worth over a billion dollars. We are also advising
Mumbai Office (Head Office)
one of the world’s largest consumer products companies in an acquisition of a well know African based FMCG company. All these transactions require high capacity world-class support which we have been able to provide from our base in Africa”.
In addition to the “Global 100” awards, EY Ethiopia has recently won numerous other global awards in recognition of its client focused world- class services including: “Advisory firm of the Year” and “Deal of the Year”. Furthmore, the firm’s Managing Partner, Zemedeneh Negatu recently won as “Managing Partner of the Year – 2013” from a top UK based global finance and M&A magazine. Zemedeneh was also the winner as “Pioneer Ethiopian-American Diaspora Businessman of Year” in Washington, D.C. in 2012 for the innovative work his firm is doing in Africa and the positive, fact-based transformational thought leadership reports which have been featured by the global media including CNBC, BBC and CNN.
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“We have invested heavily in our firm’ s
transactional capacity in Ethiopia and across Africa and as a result, we are now the “go to
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firm” for virtually all major transaction advisory projects especially the ones which focus on what we call the “Capital Agenda” .
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