3-day Certificate Course in Private Equity Management
August 11, 12 & 13, 2009 in Delhi.The modules of this course have been specifically designed to offer participants an overview and a broad understanding of the different milestones and…
Deal Alert: Anup Shah Law Firm merges with AZB Partners
Bangalore, KA-based Anup S. Shah Law Firm, which has offices in Hyderabad and Chennai also, is to merge with AZB & Partners, Venture Intelligence has learnt. Anup Shah will bring…
Trends in Corporate Farming
Businessworld has an article on the progress (or the lack of it) of the agri-initiatives of various corporate houses. Take Jain Irrigation, which derives Rs 300 crore of its revenues…
For-profit schools – without the hypocrisy
In an article for the Economic Times, Bureaucrat-turned-Education CEO Amit Kaushik, calls for “bold new steps” that will encourage private investments in schools. The simplest way to do so would…
Why NREGS is good for the markets
In a column for Business Standard, Akash Prakash of Amansa Capital, feels the rising fiscal deficit – one of the catalysts for which will be more and more schemes that…
Time to rethink GP compensation?
“Super LP” Chris Douvos has proposed a new fee formula for Private Equity funds. Currently, LPs worry that the carry system grants GPs a free option in times of frothy…
“PE investors rolling up sleeves at portfolio cos.”
Business Today has an article on how PE firms are becoming more hands on with their portfolio companies in the face of the economic downturn. Private equity by nature is—or…
The TMB Community Bank Saga Drags On
Forbes India has an article on how the investor group led by former Pepsi India head Ramesh Vangal is the latest one to struggle to gain control of the Tamil…
Profile of CX Partners’ Ajay Relan
Forbes India has a profile of Ajay Relan, the former India head of Citigroup’s PE arm, who is now raising his own fund. In May 2008, word spread that CVCI…
World Economy to US Consumer: Start spending again. NOW!
Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma writes in the Economic Times how it is crucial for the global economy – and stock markets – that the US consumer begins to spend again.…