Zephyr Management is dedicated to making investments that transcend borders, creating opportunities that matter, and fostering prosperity worldwide.
Zephyr Management, L.P. is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity funds.
ZN Mexico was launched in 1998 to make private equity investments in middle market companies in Mexico participating in the growth opportunities created by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
ZN Mexico sought to achieve superior returns primarily by making privately negotiated equity and equity-related investments in middle market Mexican companies participating in the economic opportunities generated by the convergence of the US, Canadian and Mexican (NAFTA) economies.
Zephyr Korea was formed in December 1996 to participate in what Zephyr had identified as an increasing trend towards deregulation of the Korean capital markets and the adoption of Western-style corporate practices such as focused and profit-oriented management and transparent governance by Korean businesses. Zephyr Korea sought to achieve significant capital gains by making privately negotiated equity investments in small and medium-sized Korean companies and by purchasing interests in existing Korean private equity funds at a discount to net asset value in the secondary market.
ZM Africa was launched in 1997 to make private equity investments in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa, also known as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Zephyr became the manager in 2000. ZM Africa sought to make diversified direct private equity investments in high growth business sectors in liberalized African markets in the SADC region. ZM Africa’s investments have been fully divested.
Strategy: South Africa Capital and South Africa Private Equity were launched in August 1995 to make private equity investments in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa. The Funds, which invested in parallel and on the same terms, sought to capitalize on what the Manager viewed as a unique window of opportunity to invest in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Strategy: Pan-African Investment was launched in 2003 to make private equity investments in Africa. The strategy invested in businesses that were expanding regionally in Africa through organic growth or acquisition. The Manager assisted these businesses in developing into some of the leading African businesses in their industries, in order to be fully competitive in a global economy. Building critical mass in these businesses was crucial in order to achieve competitive size and adequate profitability.
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Zephyr Acorn is an investment and business building company focused on investing in and supporting early-stage technology-enabled companies primarily in East Africa.