We buy businesses. Then we make them perform.
Chukwudaalu & Co. is a Nigerian private equity firm. We invest alongside co-investors on selected transactions, acquire whole businesses, parts of businesses and meaningful stakes, and work with the people who built them to make them perform for the long term.
- Transaction size
- ₦500 million to ₦100 billion
- Geography
- Nigeria only
- Sectors
- Nine, from financial services to technology
- Indicative offer
- Within four weeks
Four rules. No exceptions.
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We pick the deal.
Every transaction is chosen on its own numbers, with co-investors who have seen it and signed up to it. No blind pool. No capital looking for somewhere to go.
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We take a real position.
Whole businesses, partial businesses, meaningful stakes. Enough ownership to set direction. Never a passenger’s seat.
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We run it hard.
Focused governance, operating discipline and selective acquisition financing, from the first day after completion.
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We exit on the numbers.
A public listing when the business and the market are ready. A strategic sale when it pays more.
Owners, not observers.
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Focused governance
Control of the decisions that move the business. Reporting that cannot be dressed up.
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Operating discipline
Targets set, measured and enforced, with management backed to meet them.
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Selective acquisition financing
Debt where the cash flow carries it. Never where it does not.
A public listing is the preferred exit when the business and market are ready.
A strategic sale remains an option when it creates a stronger outcome. The exit is planned before we sign.
- We do not run a blind pool of outside capital.
- We do not buy hope, and we do not pay for a forecast management cannot defend.
- We do not take a position too small to set direction.
- We do not chase a deal to put money to work. When the price is wrong, we walk.
Bring us the business.
Approaches are held in confidence. We do not disclose the fact of an approach, and an approach places you under no obligation.