Barclays Regulatory News (BARC)

30 April 2012

Barclays PLC

Barclays Natural Resource Investments (BNRI) and Qatar Asset Management Company form major strategic partnership

The Qatar Asset Management Company ("QAMC"), a collaboration between the Qatar Financial Centre Authority ("QFC Authority") and the Qatar Investment Authority, and Barclays Natural Resource Investments ("BNRI"), a division of Barclays Bank PLC, today announced the formation of a major strategic partnership. BNRI is a global private equity business focussed on natural resource investment opportunities.

Under the partnership terms agreed, QAMC will co-invest $250 million in BNRI's current and future portfolio companies, of which a substantial proportion will be allocated to BNRI's existing $2.1 billion portfolio of companies. BNRI will continue to source, execute, manage and exit private equity transactions in the natural resources sectors on a global basis and co-investors will be invited to participate immediately upon completion of each transaction.

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