Group Buying in Real Estate
Extract from The Economic Times article Group buying is typically a good strategy, be it for travel deals or buying consumer durables, as it can help you get discounts ranging…
Interview with KKR ‘s Sanjay Nayyar on mezz funding
Extracts from the Economic Times interview As firms like Everstone and Goldman Sachs, or Apollo and ICICI get more active, we will see the growth of a mezzanine market. We…
M&A activity declines 60% during Q1 2009
During the first quarter of 2009, Indian companies were involved in a total of 54 M&A deals – including both cross-border and domestic transactions – compared to 135 deals during…
Why Corporate India flops at the box office
Businessworld has an article on why corporate India’s repeated attempts at film-making have fallen flat. M&M isn’t the first business group unable to gauge the quicksand of Bollywood. Attracted by…
What’s Changed in Silicon Valley
The New York Times has an article “about the types of companies that will receive some of the estimated $31 billion venture capital firms raised in 2008”. WEB 2.0 HEYDAY…
Interview with Vishal Tulsyan, CEO of Motilal Oswal Private Equity
Vishal Tulsyan, CEO of Motilal Oswal Private Equity, which has invested 50% of its $125 million first fund across eight companies including dairy firm Parag Milk, “reverse logistics” firm RT…
Why the Oracle of Omaha is buying now
From Warren Buffet’s NY Times article. I can’t predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven’t the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower…
The DreamWorks-Reliance romance
Dealmaker has an interesting piece comparing the coming together of DreamWorks and Reliance Big Entertainment to a Bollywood movie. Forbidden FruitIn a society known for arranging marriages, it’s not surprising…
Saudis go overseas shopping for farmlands
FT has an interesting article on how, alarmed by restrictions placed by food exporters (such as India’s curbs on exports of rice), oil-and hence, cash-rich countries like Saudi Arabia are…
Telecom war rages on
Businessworld has a cover story on the unending corporate war in Indian mobile telecom. (Anil Sardana), the bespectacled, professorial general fighting Tatas’ telecom battle and Tatas’ regulatory advisors in New…