AVCJ (Mergermarket / ION Analytics) has published a feature by Associate Editor Justin Niessner examining how private equity is finding new angles on Belt & Road investment, as Chinese outbound commitments reach record levels.
The piece includes commentary from GCCVest founder and CEO Ben Jelloun on Asia–MENA capital flows — including why trust, local readiness, and genuine two-way capital traffic will determine which firms succeed in the corridor. “The corridor cannot be one-way,” Jelloun told AVCJ.
The article also references GCCVest’s role in mobilising sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and family capital from the MENA region for large-scale Asian opportunities, and the firm’s brokering of the Smart Mobility joint venture between Foxconn Interconnect Technology and Saleh Suleiman Alrajhi & Sons — a US$100 million EV charging manufacturing business launched in Saudi Arabia in December 2025.
Read the full article at Mergermarket: https://mergermarket.