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Listing in Africa LISTING IN AFRICA 2014/2015 kpmg.com/Africa Contents Introduction 04 Key De nitions 08 Summary of Listing Criteria 12 Botswana 24 Kenya 44 Mauritius 68 Namibia 88 Nigeria 114 South Africa 132 Zambia 160 Zimbabwe 186 Key sources 210 Contributors 211 Introduction Purpose of this publication There is an increasing interest in Africa as a potential investment destination due to the fact that the developed markets are not expected to grow as they have done previously. In addition, Africa is seen to be becoming more politically mature and easier to access and this, together with its growing population and rise in consumption, is adding to its attractiveness for foreign investors. Africa also has vast tracts of unutilised land and signicant mineral and other resources. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the considerations for listing, listing criteria, processes, documentation requirements and continuing obligations relating to certain African stock exchanges, as well as an overview of the composition and liquidity of the equity markets in these countries. This information will give potential investors and applicant issuers’ valuable insights into listing in these environments. Advantages and disadvantages of an equity listing Some of the advantages of listing equity on any stock exchange are set out below: › Enables the company to raise equity capital to fund existing projects and acquisition opportunities and/or to reduce current gearing levels in the company; › Provides a future and current exit route for the existing investors in the company; › Provides the company with a platform to raise capital to fund growth and investment opportunities in the future; › Provides the company with a currency, in the form of its listed shares, that the company can utilise in the future to make acquisitions; › Enhances the company’s ability to raise debt capital through its listed status; › Provides investors and stakeholders with an opportunity to participate over the long term in the income streams and capital growth of the company; › Provides the company with access to a central trading facility thereby providing liquidity and ready marketability of the shares to shareholders; › All transactions in listed shares on a stock exchange are carried out uniformly and are monitored by the relevant regulatory bodies, thereby, signicantly reducing unfair trading practices such as insider trading; › The market price of a listed security is determined on the basis of supply and demand for the shares, therefore, the listed share price is generally reective of the real value of the company’s shares; › Listed issuers generally have better corporate governance practices and procedures which results in the company delivering higher and more sustainable value and making it more robust in times of economic difculty; Listing in Africa | INTRODUCTION | 5 › Enhances the public prole and general public Considerations for a company prior to awareness of the company; and listing on a stock exchange › Increases the company’s ability to attract and Prior to listing on a stock exchange, the management retain key executives and senior members of team needs to consider whether the existing staff by providing them with the opportunity to company structure and corporate governance and participate in the equity and future growth of the nancial processes are suitable for a listed entity. company. Some questions management needs to consider in advance of an application to list the company on any Advantages that are specic to secondary stock exchange are as follows: listings are as follows: › Are there any country specic legal or exchange › Helps facilitate the expansion of the company’s control requirements applicable for a listing in the business in that jurisdiction; selected jurisdiction? › Enables a company to take advantage of potential › Is the existing company and tax structure investor demand for foreign assets by local suitable for a listed entity or is some restructuring investors; required? › Facilitates trading in the company’s shares by › Does the company have a robust, stand-alone foreign investors which creates a public relations nancial track record produced under IFRS benet for the company due to, inter alia, the or other standards that are acceptable to the increased publicity and brand recognition that selected stock exchange/s? result when a company lists; › Are any reports from independent experts › Helps facilitate the meeting of local ownership required such as a competent person’s report for requirements by the company; a mining company or a property valuation report › Enables the company to fund its local for a property entity and can these be prepared requirements using equity rather than obtaining and issued in the relevant timeframe? debt funding which may be limited in the local › Can the company prepare an attractive equity market; and story and provide supporting evidence for › Increases the company’s ability to incentivise the statements and disclosures made in the its local employees through employee share prospectus or other listing documentation? schemes. › Does the company have clear and credible growth Some of the disadvantages of listing equity on opportunities? any stock exchange are set out below: › Does the company have well-dened key › Managements control over the board of directors performance indicators? and its ability to make business decisions is › Does the company have an experienced and reduced due to the shareholder protections competent board of directors and does the board incorporated into the listings requirements of the meet the regulatory and corporate governance various stock exchanges; requirements for a listing on the chosen › Increased supervision by the relevant statutory stock exchange or does the board need to be and regulatory authorities; restructured? › Increased nancial and other reporting › Does the company have well-dened processes in requirements; place in order to meet the on-going disclosure and transparency obligations of a listed entity? › Increased costs due to listed status and the additional regulatory and reporting requirements; › Can the nancial team produce timeous, accurate and comprehensive nancial information for the › Difcult to sell large blocks of shares due to audit committee and the board of directors? minority shareholder protections and takeover rules and regulations; › Does the company have a risk management policy in place in order to identify, assess, monitor › Capital raising results in a dilution of the existing and manage risk and to identify changes to the shareholders; company’s risk prole? › Management cannot dictate and/or determine › Does the company have robust internal controls? who holds the issuer’s shares; and › Does management have a policy in place for › Independent decisions by fund managers and communicating with and relating to internal and institutions can inuence the share price and external stakeholders? corporate activity of the issuer without the prior knowledge and consent of management. › Has the company thought about corporate social responsibility? 6 | Listing in Africa | INTRODUCTION Considerations when choosing a stock › The liquidity of the listed securities on the exchange: exchange of choice; Some of the main considerations when choosing a › The initial and an ongoing regulatory and corporate stock exchange for a listing are as follows: governance requirements on the exchange of choice and whether the company will need to › Availability of domestic capital and debt funding in change it’s existing policies and procedures in this the country of choice including the following: regard; » The number of banking institutions and the total › The initial and on-going cost of being listed on the banking industry assets in the target country; exchange of choice; » The number of equity investment funds in the › Exchange control requirements in the target target country; country and whether returns on investments and capital are freely repatriable. This is particularly » The number of pension funds, the total value of pension assets and the recent growth in relevant in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe; pension assets in the target country; and › Tax incentives available in the target country. This is particularly relevant in Botswana, Kenya, » The history of bond issuances of the past three (3) years. Mauritius and Nigeria; and › The criteria to list on the stock exchange of choice › Shareholder spread and local ownership and whether the company will meet the relevant requirements. This is particularly relevant in requirements; Botswana, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. › Size, maturity, sector and industry of the applicant issuer; Associations WFE Currently there are twenty three (23) members of the ASEA representing thirty (30) African countries. The WFE is the trade association of sixty (60) regulated stock, futures and options exchanges EASEA throughout the world. The WFE is a central reference point for the securities industry and for The three (3) East African Securities Exchanges, the various stock exchanges. The WFE offers its namely the NrSE, Uganda Stock Exchange and Dar members guidance on their business strategies and es Salaam Stock Exchange, have established a management practices. The JSE, SEM, EGX and working relationship amongst themselves with the CSE are the four (4) African stock exchanges that are aim of integrating and developing capital markets members of the WFE. The NSE, NSX, Bourse des in the East African Community.
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