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CurrentSole commercial advisor to Standard Chartered Private Equity on its landmark US$74 million private equity investment (2011) in ETG - East Africa's largest agricultural commodities trading house;Sole commercial advisor to Carlyle, Remgro and Standard Chartered Private Equity on their follow-up US$210 million investment (2012) in ETG;Sole commercial advisor to Standard Chartered Private Equity on its proposed private equity investment in Phoenix Commodities. SCPE rejected the investment following my due diligence.Sole commercial advisor to the CDC Group (Commonwealth Development Corporation, the UK government's development finance institution) in its co-investment with Royal DSM, and in partnership with the World Food Programme, Clinton Foundation and the Rwanda government, in Rwanda;Sole commercial advisor and joint financial advisor to leading indigenous African corporates, ranging from cocoa, rice and fertilisers, to offshore oil and natural gas services sectors, in their capital financing transactions.Research reports were licensed to and used by the International Finance Corporation, Proparco, FMO (the Dutch Development Bank), Sumitomo Corporation, etc.