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SSA Investment Banking Review

Full Year 2020

Refinitiv Deals Intelligence reviews Sub-Saharan Africa Investment Banking performance for the full year 2020.


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Highlights:
  • Investment Banking Fees: An estimated US$523.7 million worth of investment banking fees were earned in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2020, down 15% from 2019 and the lowest annual total in six years.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions: The value of announced M&A transactions with any Sub-Saharan African involvement reached US$25.7 billion during 2020, 62% less than the value recorded during 2019 when Naspers’ US$35.9 billion internet assets spin-off boosted merger activity to an all-time high.
  • Equity Capital Markets: Sub-Saharan African equity and equity-related issuance reached US$2.5 billion during 2020, 54% more than the value recorded during the previous year, but lower than every other annual total since 2005.
  • Debt Capital Markets: The African Development Bank raised $3 billion in a “Fight Covid-19” social bond at the end of March to help alleviate the economic and social impact the Coronavirus pandemic will have on livelihoods and economies in the region.
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