Atif Abdulmalik, Chief Executive Officer of Arcapita Group Holdings (Arcapita), a Sharia compliant global alternative investment firm, has set out Arcapita’s strategic transformation plan for the coming five years. The strategy aims to increase the size and volume of Arcapita’s transactions in the private equity and real estate sectors by introducing new product offerings. This new phase of expansion builds on Arcapita’s track record of 100 transactions with a total value of US$31 billion over the past 25 years.
Abdulmalik explains that Arcapita’s business activity is a mix of direct private equity investments and investments in real estate with a particular emphasis on industrial properties in the Company’s core markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), mainly in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the US. Through its transformation strategy, Arcapita intends to diversify its asset base further and minimize risk exposure by acquiring real estate and private equity assets in sectors that demonstrate solid long-term fundamentals.
