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CLOSED BILATERAL FORUM · LONDON · 2027 · UK · AFRICA

UK-Africa Family Office Forum London 2027

A closed bilateral forum bringing UK and African single family office principals together in London for the first time — peer dialogue on cross-border private markets, African investment opportunity, UK structuring and bilateral capital allocation strategy. London 2027.

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London 2027UK & African PrincipalsVerified Family Offices OnlyFree to Qualifying SFOsChatham House Rule
THE BILATERAL PREMISE

Two Capital Bases. One Room. One Conversation That Cannot Happen Anywhere Else.

Africa is the fastest-growing private wealth region in the world outside Asia. The continent's ultra-high-net-worth population is projected to rise from 7,322 individuals in 2026 to 8,412 by 2031, according to Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2026. By 2030, Africa is projected to host over $3 trillion in private wealth — driven by expanding high-net-worth populations in Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya. Sub-Saharan Africa's economy is forecast to grow at 4.1% in 2026 — outpacing Europe at 0.7% and the United States at 1.4%, according to Henley & Partners' Africa Wealth Report 2025.

African family offices with substantial UK operations are already a reality. Man Capital — the London-based family office of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour — invests in private capital across real estate, logistics, education, healthcare and technology. TY Danjuma Family Office, based in Surrey, holds a portfolio of residential and commercial properties in the UK, USA and Spain through its subsidiary TY Properties. The Steyn Family Office has investments and operating subsidiaries in both the UK and South Africa across real estate, private equity and venture capital. Mary Oppenheimer Daughters maintains locations in Johannesburg, London and the Isle of Man. London is already the offshore anchor of choice for Africa's most sophisticated family capital.

What does not yet exist is a closed, bilateral, peer-level forum where UK family office principals — with their depth of private markets access, manager relationships and structuring expertise — sit alongside African principals managing the same complexity from the other side, in the same room, under Chatham House Rule, without a pitch environment. The UK-Africa Family Office Forum London 2027 creates that room for the first time.

"The population of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Africa is growing at a faster pace than any other region in the world except Asia."
— Knight Frank Wealth Report 2026
KNIGHT FRANK WEALTH REPORT 2026
7,322

Africa's ultra-high-net-worth population (assets exceeding $30 million) in 2026 — projected to reach 8,412 by 2031, representing 15% growth over five years.

Source: Knight Frank Wealth Report 2026
HENLEY & PARTNERS · AFRICA WEALTH REPORT 2025
$3tn+

Total private wealth projected to be held across Africa by 2030 — driven by expanding UHNW populations in South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco.

Source: Henley & Partners Africa Wealth Report 2025; FurtherAfrica
HENLEY & PARTNERS · 2025
4.1%

Sub-Saharan Africa's projected economic growth rate in 2026 — outpacing Europe (0.7%) and the United States (1.4%). Rwanda and Morocco have posted UHNW population growth of 48% and 40% respectively.

Source: Henley & Partners Africa Wealth Report 2025
HENLEY & PARTNERS · AFRICA WEALTH REPORT 2025
34%

South Africa's share of Africa's total millionaire population — roughly equal to the next five wealthiest African countries combined. Africa's Big Five wealth markets: South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya.

Source: Henley & Partners Africa Wealth Report 2025
FURTHAFRICA · NEW WORLD WEALTH · 2025
45% / 30% / 25%

African family office allocation split across African assets — approximately 45% through private equity and venture capital structures, 30% direct stake acquisition in established businesses, and 25% targeting infrastructure, commercial real estate and agricultural land.

Source: FurtherAfrica / New World Wealth 2025
CAMPDEN FB · AFRICA FAMILY OFFICE RESEARCH
London

The primary offshore anchor city for Africa's most sophisticated family capital — with Man Capital (Mansour family, Egypt), TY Danjuma Family Office (Surrey), Steyn Family Office and Mary Oppenheimer Daughters all maintaining significant UK operations.

Source: Campden FB Africa Family Office Research
WHY LONDON · WHY 2027

London Is Already the Offshore Home of Africa's Most Sophisticated Family Capital

WHY LONDON

The Legal, Financial and Structural Anchor for African Private Capital

London's attraction for African family offices is not theoretical — it is demonstrated. Man Capital chose London as its operating base. TY Danjuma Family Office chose Surrey. The Steyn Family Office operates UK subsidiaries. Mary Oppenheimer Daughters maintains a London presence. The pattern is consistent: Africa's most institutionally sophisticated family capital gravitates to London for its stable legal system, independent judiciary, deep capital markets, global connectivity and access to the world's most concentrated pool of private markets investment managers, lawyers and advisers.

For UK family office principals, this means that bilateral relationships with African counterparts are not being built at a distance — they are being built across the same city, in the same investment networks, sometimes with the same advisers. The UK-Africa Family Office Forum formalises and deepens those relationships in a closed room designed for exactly that purpose.

WHY 2027

A Continent at an Inflection Point for Private Capital

2027 is the year in which several structural forces converge for Africa's private capital story. The AfCFTA — African Continental Free Trade Area — is progressively reshaping cross-border investment structures across 54 member states. Sub-Saharan Africa's economy is forecast to grow at 4.1% in 2026 and accelerating into 2027. Africa's UHNW population is growing faster than anywhere except Asia. African family offices are forming co-investment networks and developing pan-African capabilities for the first time at institutional scale. International family offices — including UK principals — are increasingly identifying Africa as a destination for long-term, stable capital deployment, according to Henley & Partners.

The bilateral conversation between UK and African family offices in 2027 is not a speculative one about a future opportunity. It is a current, active, capital-deploying conversation that needs a closed room to happen properly.

FORUM PROGRAMME · 2027 · INDICATIVE FORMAT

What the Forum Covers

Six programme themes — each a closed bilateral discussion between UK and African principals rather than a presentation to an audience. The agenda is confirmed with registered principals ahead of each forum and evolves to reflect current market conditions and the investment positions of the room.

SESSION ONE · AFRICAN PRIVATE MARKETS

African Private Markets in 2027 — Where UK Capital Can Access Genuine Opportunity

African family offices allocate approximately 45% of their African investment through private equity and venture capital structures, 30% through direct stake acquisitions in established businesses and 25% toward infrastructure, commercial real estate and agricultural land — according to FurtherAfrica research. International family offices seeking African exposure face a different challenge: access routes, manager quality, jurisdiction selection and governance frameworks that are materially different from European or North American markets. This session examines where UK family office principals are currently deploying capital in Africa — or where they are evaluating doing so — and where African principals are seeing the most credible private markets opportunity that international co-investment capital can access in 2027. A bilateral market intelligence exchange that produces a quality of insight neither group can access without the other.

SESSION TWO · UK PRIVATE MARKETS ACCESS

UK Private Markets from an African Principal's Perspective — Access, Structure and What Actually Works

African family offices with UK operations — including those already operating through London-based structures — navigate UK private markets with a set of considerations that differ materially from those of a domestically-rooted UK principal: cross-border tax implications, the regulatory environment post non-domicile reform, deal access routes, manager selection without established local networks and the governance considerations of deploying capital across two jurisdictions simultaneously. This session examines what African principals who are already invested in UK private markets have found workable — and what they have found more difficult than expected — alongside a UK principal perspective on the access routes, structures and relationships that produce the best outcomes for internationally mobile family capital.

SESSION THREE · CROSS-BORDER STRUCTURING

Cross-Border UK-Africa Structuring — Mauritius, Guernsey, Jersey, the UK and the Practical Toolkit

The structuring of capital moving between African markets and the UK involves a specific set of legal, tax and regulatory considerations — including the role of Mauritius as Africa's primary international financial centre, the use of Guernsey and Jersey as intermediate holding jurisdictions, the UK's Double Taxation Agreement network across African markets, the implications of Common Reporting Standard for African-UK cross-border structures and the post-non-domicile reform UK tax environment for African principals with UK presence or residency. Financial centres like Mauritius, Rwanda and Morocco are establishing specialised regulatory frameworks for family offices — creating new structuring options that did not exist five years ago. This session is led by the forum's approved specialist sponsor and covers the practical cross-border structuring toolkit for UK-Africa bilateral capital in 2027.

SESSION FOUR · AFRICAN REAL ESTATE

African Real Estate — Commercial Property, Logistics and the Infrastructure Capital Gap

Africa's infrastructure financing gap is structural and multi-decade. The AfDB and IFC are active participants — but private capital is increasingly filling the gap that development finance cannot reach at the speed or scale required. Cape Town is Africa's most expensive prime real estate market at $5,800 per square metre and is on track to attract significant international capital, according to Henley & Partners Africa Wealth Report 2025. Johannesburg anchors Africa's wealthiest city by HNWI concentration. Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya all have active commercial real estate and logistics markets with international investor access. This session examines where African real estate produces institutional-quality returns for international family capital — covering commercial property, logistics infrastructure, residential development and the specific structures through which UK principals can access direct exposure alongside African co-investors who know the markets from the inside.

SESSION FIVE · SUCCESSION & NEXT GENERATION

Next-Generation Engagement and Succession in African Family Offices — The Structural Challenge

African family offices are undergoing a generational transition. As control shifts to younger family members — many educated at UK and European universities with professional experience at international financial institutions — investment strategies are evolving to incorporate greater technology focus, ESG integration and more sophisticated governance structures. Only a minority of African family offices currently have formal succession plans for the office itself, according to FurtherAfrica research. The pattern mirrors what UBS and J.P. Morgan report globally: governance infrastructure lags behind investment sophistication. This session examines the specific succession and governance challenges that arise when an African family office is transitioning between generations — particularly where the next generation has deep UK or European connections and where the governance frameworks needed to manage that transition do not yet exist in codified form.

SESSION SIX · BILATERAL DEALFLOW ROUNDTABLE

UK and African Principals on What They Are Actually Investing In Together — A Closed Bilateral Exchange

A closing roundtable for verified principals only — without advisers, without the sponsor and under strict Chatham House Rule. The agenda is set by the principals present: which cross-border UK-Africa investment opportunities they are currently evaluating, which structures they have found workable in practice, which UK or African markets they are building conviction in and which they are exiting, and what they wish they had known before their first bilateral investment between the UK and an African market. The most direct peer exchange available to a UK or African family office principal currently building or considering a bilateral investment programme.

WHO THE FORUM IS FOR

UK and African Family Capital — Verified and Bilateral

The UK-Africa Family Office Forum is a bilateral forum — actively managed to achieve a genuine balance between UK and African family office principals. All places are subject to eligibility verification before the invitation is confirmed.

UK PRINCIPALS

UK Single Family Office Principals

Verified UK single family office principals and CIOs who are actively investing in or evaluating African private markets, exploring bilateral co-investment with African family offices, or seeking peer dialogue with African counterparts who are deploying capital into UK and European markets from the other direction. The bilateral exchange is most valuable for principals already engaged internationally rather than those at the very beginning of a cross-border investment journey.

FREE — APPLICATION REQUIRED
SOUTH AFRICA

South African Single Family Office Principals

South Africa accounts for 34% of Africa's total millionaire population — the continent's dominant private wealth market — with 41,100 millionaires, 1,347 UHNWI individuals and a billionaire population forecast to grow from 10 in 2026 to 14 by 2031, per Knight Frank. South African principals with UK investment interests, UK structuring questions or a bilateral co-investment thesis are the most natural first audience for this forum. Several of Africa's most active UK-anchored family offices — including the Steyn Family Office and Mary Oppenheimer Daughters — originate from South African wealth.

FREE — APPLICATION REQUIRED
NIGERIA · EGYPT · KENYA · MOROCCO

Pan-African Family Office Principals

Verified single family office principals and private wealth owners from Nigeria (Africa's second-largest economy, home to Man Capital's principal family), Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and other African markets — who are actively managing cross-border capital with UK, European or international exposure, or who are building a UK or European investment programme for the first time. Africa's Big Five wealth markets collectively represent the majority of the continent's investable private capital. Principals from emerging African wealth markets — Rwanda, Morocco, Mauritius — are also actively invited.

FREE — APPLICATION REQUIRED
ADVISORY

Specialist UK-Africa Cross-Border Advisers

A small number of places are available for specialist advisers with a direct, verifiable track record in cross-border UK-Africa private client mandates — private client lawyers, cross-border tax specialists, advisers with verified African market experience and structuring expertise spanning UK and African jurisdictions. Sponsor positions are separately allocated. Contact info@uksfoevents.com.

LIMITED PLACES — BY APPLICATION
HOW OUR BRIEFINGS, ROUNDTABLES & PANELS WORK

Every private briefing and roundtable is underwritten by a single approved service-provider sponsor whose expertise is directly relevant to the session topic. All sessions are educational, informative and interactive — never commercial — providing a safe space for verified family office principals and CIOs to speak in private under Chatham House Rule.

The sponsor funds the room and may present briefly at the start of the session. They do not control the agenda, do not direct the discussion and do not contact attending principals after the event without their explicit consent. Where a sponsor participates on a panel discussion alongside family office principals and investors, they do so as a subject-matter contributor — not as a commercial presenter. The conversation belongs to the room.

Private briefings and roundtables are open to verified single family office principals and CIOs at no ticket cost. The sponsor underwrites the full cost of the venue and facilitation so that the right people can be in the room without a ticket price acting as a barrier. Panel discussions at the annual conference are open to verified delegates and may include approved service-provider speakers who have sponsored their session participation — all identified clearly in the programme.

✓EDUCATIONAL, INFORMATIVE AND INTERACTIVE — NEVER COMMERCIAL

✓CHATHAM HOUSE RULE — WHAT IS SAID IN THE ROOM STAYS IN THE ROOM

✓OPEN TO VERIFIED SINGLE FAMILY OFFICE PRINCIPALS AND CIOS AT NO TICKET COST

✓PANEL SPONSORS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED IN THE PROGRAMME AT ALL TIMES

SPONSOR THE UK-AFRICA FORUM

The Only Closed Room Where UK and African Family Capital Meet

A small number of exclusive sponsorship positions are available for organisations whose expertise sits directly at the UK-Africa private wealth intersection — cross-border law firms with UK and African practice capability, international tax specialists, UK-based fund managers seeking African LP relationships, development finance advisers and international structuring specialists with verified UK-Africa mandate experience. One exclusive sponsor per session. All sponsors clearly identified throughout.

SESSION SPONSOR

Cross-Border Session Sponsor

Underwrite one bilateral session. Present briefly at the start as the subject-matter expert. Participate as a contributor throughout. Named as Session Sponsor in all delegate communications and the programme. One delegate pass included. Ideal for: UK-Africa cross-border law firms, international tax advisers with verified African practice, UK-based fund managers seeking African LP relationships, international structuring specialists.

Pricing on application
FORUM SPONSOR

UK-Africa Forum Day Sponsor

Headline sponsorship of the full forum. Brand across all materials, communications and post-forum content. Opening welcome address to all delegates. Two delegate passes. Featured in UKSFO Events and UKMC Group network communications reaching 30,000+ global subscribers. Ideal for: international private banks, global law firms and wealth platforms with UK-Africa practice seeking a London introduction to verified UK and African family capital.

Pricing on application
CONTENT PARTNER

UK-Africa Intelligence Partner

Sponsor the post-forum intelligence briefing — a curated, anonymised summary of key discussion themes distributed to all registered delegates and the UKMC Group network. Named as content partner. May include a brief editorial contribution on a relevant UK-Africa investment theme. Does not require physical attendance. Ideal for: research organisations, advisory platforms and professional services firms building brand awareness across UK and African family office communities simultaneously.

Pricing on application
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APPLY TO ATTEND · UK-AFRICA FAMILY OFFICE FORUM LONDON · 2027

Apply for Your Place

All places are subject to eligibility verification. Verified single family office principals and private wealth owners from the UK and Africa attend at no cost. Complete the form below and a member of the team will be in touch within two working days.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Questions About the UK-Africa Forum

Which African countries does this forum serve?+
The forum is open to verified single family office principals and private wealth owners from across the African continent. The primary markets represented in the initial forum will be South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya and Morocco — Africa's Big Five wealth markets, which together account for the majority of the continent's private capital concentration per Henley & Partners' Africa Wealth Report 2025. Principals from Rwanda, Mauritius, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Côte d'Ivoire and other African markets are equally welcome to apply. The forum is pan-African in scope — not limited to any sub-region.
Do African principals need to already have UK investments to attend?+
No. African principals who are evaluating a first UK or European investment, exploring UK structuring options for the first time, or seeking peer dialogue with UK counterparts on bilateral markets are exactly the right audience. Eligibility is based on your family office structure and investment decision-making authority — not the size or maturity of your existing UK portfolio.
Do UK principals need to already be invested in Africa to attend?+
No. UK principals who are building an African investment thesis, evaluating their first African private markets allocation or seeking bilateral peer intelligence from African counterparts who know those markets from the inside are precisely the right audience. The bilateral exchange is most valuable to both groups when it includes principals at different stages of their cross-border investment journey.
Are sessions in English only?+
All sessions are conducted in English. If sufficient registered delegates from Francophone African markets request a French-language breakout discussion, we will consider adding one — please indicate your preference in the registration form.
How does the forum maintain genuine bilateral balance between UK and African delegates?+
The guest list is actively managed ahead of the forum to ensure a genuine balance between UK and African principals — not a UK-majority forum with African guests, and not a forum designed primarily for one direction of capital flow. The target ratio is approximately equal between UK and African principal delegates. If one group becomes oversubscribed, we manage invitations accordingly.
Will there be follow-up from sponsors after the forum?+
No sponsor will contact an attending principal after the forum without their explicit prior consent. This is a standing commitment from UK Family Office Events Ltd across all its events. If you wish to speak with any sponsor at the forum, you are entirely free to do so. If you do not, they will not contact you.
When and where in London is the forum?+
The UK-Africa Family Office Forum London 2027 takes place at a private London venue to be confirmed. The specific date and venue will be shared with registered delegates at least six to eight weeks ahead of the forum. Register your interest now to receive the confirmation directly.