New York-based service provider financial institution Z Capital Group (ZCG) has partnered with Zahrat Al Amaal Holding Firm, an funding agency based by Saudi billionaire property developer Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair, to finance high-growth SMEs in Saudi Arabia.
The three way partnership, set to be operational by the top of 2024, will immediately supply and originate senior secured and asset-based loans.
The strategic partnership will utilise Alhokair’s native community, market perception and funding pipeline, mixed with ZCG’s asset administration, in-house consulting, and progressive proprietary know-how options, the companies mentioned.
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They’ll search to put money into corporations with resilient enterprise fashions, extremely predictable money flows, high-quality administration groups, and powerful development.
“As a world investor with a deep monitor file and distinctive expertise, we share Fawaz Alhokair’s conviction within the long-term development alternatives for SMEs, and look ahead to our three way partnership delivering a brand new non-public capital resolution for high-growth companies in Saudi Arabia,” mentioned James Zenni, founder, president, and chief government of ZCG. “Bringing collectively ZCG’s world funding, consulting, and technological experience with Fawaz Alhokair’s glorious fame, community, and market perception to assist the companies propelling financial growth throughout the area, we are able to ship on our funding return and financial growth objectives.”
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Alhokair mentioned: “We welcome our partnership with ZCG, one of many main U.S. non-public fairness companies with an over 25-year monitor file in non-public debt. In keeping with Imaginative and prescient 2030 and the federal government’s goal to extend entry to capital for native SMEs, we imagine within the success of such a enterprise. Leveraging our native capabilities, intensive community, and market insights, coupled with ZCG’s know-how and confirmed monitor file in managing such enterprise, we anticipate a mutually helpful collaboration.”
Buyers are more and more seeing the alternatives introduced by Saudi Arabia’s non-public credit score market.
Final November, Saudi Arabia’s state-backed Jada Fund of Funds introduced its first foray within the non-public credit score house, with a $250m (£197.5m) funding in non-public credit score agency Ruya Companions.
