ADQ and ADNEC Neighborhood enter into definitive agreements to compose a 40.5 percent stake in TMG Keeping’s hospitality trade in Egypt

• Acquisition of the stake via a capital expand in TMG Keeping’s hospitality arm, ICON, will succor continue the construction of the sumptuous hospitality industry in Egypt
• The transaction will moreover salvage the acquisition of a stake in seven iconic heritage luxury resorts in Egypt that are today owned by the Egyptian Authorities via ICON

DQ, an Abu Dhabi-primarily primarily based mostly funding and retaining firm, and ADNEC Neighborhood (“ADNEC”) this present day announced the signing of definitive agreements for the strategic acquisition of a 40.5 percent stake in Egypt-primarily primarily based mostly Talaat Moustafa Neighborhood Keeping’s (“TMG Keeping”) hospitality arm, ICON Neighborhood (“ICON”) via a capital expand. ADQ and ADNEC will invest via a various cause automobile, with 49 percent equity ownership by ADQ and 51 percent equity ownership by ADNEC.

ICON is a number one participant in Egypt’s luxury and upscale hospitality market, with a track legend of constructing and owning a pair of of the most infamous luxury resorts in Egypt. The Neighborhood owns four operational resorts – Four Seasons Cairo at Nile Plaza, Kempinski Nile Resort Cairo, Four Seasons Sharm El Sheikh and Four Seasons Alexandria at San Stefano – and has three hotelsand luxury residential staunch estate property today below construction, such because the Four Seasons in Madinaty and Luxor and Radisson Collection in Marsa Alam, and one resort below save, the Four Seasons at The Pyramids.

The transaction represents a predominant FDI funding in Egypt and marks a solid vote of investor self belief within the Egyptian tourism and hospitality sector.

The funding by ADQ and ADNEC in TMG’s Hospitality arm will doubtless be former partially to deleverage the original debt of ICON, with the closing former for the acquisition of a stake via ICON within the portfolio of seven luxury heritage resorts owned by the Egyptian Authorities, for which definitive agreements had been signed. The seven hospitality property comprise Marriott Cairo Omar Khayyam Zamalek, Marriott MENA Home Cairo, Sofitel Iciness Palace Luxor, Sofitel Story Gentle Cataract Aswan, Steigenberger Cecil Resort Alexandria, Steigenberger Resort El Tahrir Cairo and Mövenpick Resort Aswan.

Post-transaction, ICON may perchance well per chance salvage a combined portfolio of 15 luxury and upscale hospitality property with a complete of around 5,000 keys in high areas including Cairo, Luxor, Aswan,Sharm El Sheikh and Alexandria. The obtained resorts in Egypt are managed by simplest-in-class operators and can also continue to grab pleasure within the synergies, sources and in-nation experience of TMG Keeping.

With tourism excessive on the agenda of the Egyptian Authorities, the field is anticipated to grow to more than 30 million vacationers yearly by 2028. Egypt today has a restricted supply of heritage resorts all the plot in which via the sumptuous and upscale segments to cater to the evolving preferences of a new demographic of vacationers.

The transaction reinforces ADQ’s curiosity in investing in property that can present continued upside growth and sustainable returns. ADQ is a prolonged-term investor within the Egyptian financial system;within the previous years, ADQ has made investments in market leaders all the plot in which via various sectors, including the acquisition of Amoun Pharmaceutical Firm S.A.E., one in all Egypt’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and exporters.

ADNEC Neighborhood has evolved correct into a elephantine-carrier tourism solutions provider by creating Tourism365, a leisure tourism arm, which has original operations in Egypt and hence affords vital synergistic doable with the funding in ICON.

The funding in ICON is a a must salvage strategic step for ADNEC Neighborhood, as we elevate on our global expansion formulation and can also present ADNEC Neighborhood and its portfolio companies with salvage admission to to Egypt’s snappy rising tourism market and reaffirms our dedication to beef up our hospitality and tourism platform. We’re going to work carefully with TMG Keeping to beef up and grow ICON and develop extra worth for our shareholders. Humaid Matar Al Dhaheri, Managing Director and Neighborhood Chief Executive Officer of ADNEC Neighborhood

We’re satisfied to salvage ADQ and ADNEC be a a part of us as strategic partners and shareholders on this landmark transaction and present for an thrilling outlook going ahead. Thru this partnership we’re going to pursue immense growth alternatives in Egypt’s tourism sector and previous and can also release extra worth for our shareholders. Hisham Talaat Moustafa, CEO and Managing Director of TMG Keeping

EFG Hermes is performing because the sole financial manual to TMG Keeping on the transaction.

The transaction is self-discipline to extinct closing prerequisites.