Africa Sustainable Forestry
FOCUSED ON ACQUIRING AND DEVELOPING ASSETS ACROSS THE FORESTRY VALUE CHAIN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Criterion Africa Partners
Criterion Africa Partners is a private equity firm that partners with proven management teams at growing companies to enhance productivity and create value for the benefit of all stakeholders in its key focus areas: Rehabilitation of existing plantations; downstream manufacturing and wood-based energy generation.
Typical investments range from $5 million to $30 million with a focus on catalyzing growth, increasing productivity, addressing new markets and meeting shareholder liquidity needs.
Investment criteria include:
- Motivated management teams with meaningful ownership to ensure alignment of interests
- > $5 million annual revenue with growth potential
- Strong customer relationships
- Squarely in the forestry sector - somewhere between the resource through to value creation/industrial processing and biomass energy
- Significant market opportunity
EMPLOYEE OWNED
Team spun out of Global Environment Fund’s Africa Sustainable Forestry investment program in 2017
Catalyzed by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
Investing in the forestry sector in select countries in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2001
Led by Dr. Ole C. Sand; over $2 billion of forestry and downstream investments in emerging markets
Catalyzed by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
Investing in the forestry sector in select countries in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2001
Led by Dr. Ole C. Sand; over $2 billion of forestry and downstream investments in emerging markets
UNIQUE INVESTMENT STRATEGY
Long-term economic growth driven by demographics and increasing demand for building materials and energy
Insufficient information, management and capital in Sub-Saharan Africa has created a highly inefficient market and mispriced assets
CAP focuses on three areas:
Rehabilitation of existing plantations; downstream manufacturing and wood-based energy generation
Insufficient information, management and capital in Sub-Saharan Africa has created a highly inefficient market and mispriced assets
CAP focuses on three areas:
Rehabilitation of existing plantations; downstream manufacturing and wood-based energy generation
EXPERIENCED TEAM
Team has over 125 years of combined forestry investment experience
Backgrounds in industrial processing, forestry and finance; completed eight investments in five countries
Recognized by global timber investors as the leader in African forestry
Backgrounds in industrial processing, forestry and finance; completed eight investments in five countries
Recognized by global timber investors as the leader in African forestry