Business: South Africa recruits RMB for Airline Stake Selling Advisory

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:38 am

South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank, the funding banking arm of FirstRand Ltd., has been appointed as an adviser to assist the government examine offers for stakes in its insolvent countrywide airline, according to two humans acquainted with the situation.

The state is looking to elevate greater than 10 billion rand ($575 million) that South African Airwaysadministrators say is needed to revive its operations eight months after going into bankruptcy protection. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has stated the National Treasury will no longer use its personal money, beyond 16.4 billion rand in current debt guarantees, and will as a substitute are looking for “strategic partners” or private-equity backers as properly as tapping pension cash and global financial institutions.

“The Department of Public Enterprises has recognized a transaction adviser,” the ministry stated in a declaration on Wednesday, without identifying the firm. “The advisers are predicted to assess unsolicited expressions of pastime from private-sector funders, private-equity traders and partners for a future restructured SAA

(Africanbusinesscentral)