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Investec Buys Stake in Berlin-Based Off Grid Solar Developer

  • Company grew 80 percent year on year between 2015 and 2016
  • Plans to close project finance structured debt by year end
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Investec Asset Management Ltd. bought a stake in Mobisol GmbH in the biggest yet round of equity financing for the off-grid solar industry.

About a third of the solar developer is now held in an Africa-focused private equity facility that belongs to Investec, which is based in Johannesburg, Mobisol Chief Executive Officer Thomas Gottschalk said by telephone. The value of the transaction was “well above $20 million,” he said without being more specific.