With its latest deal, MerchantBridge, a direct investment and private equity company focused on Middle East investments, has now invested and managed in excess of US$1.5bn in debt and equity in Iraq. MerchantBridge has recently been awarded an existing cement plant contract under a 15-year lease in the Kerbala Governerate, 80 miles south west of the capital Baghdad. The contract was awarded by the Government of Iraq’s Ministry of Industry ...