Deal Alert: Paracor India exits PL Shipping & Logistics via strategic sale
Paracor India Investments, Mauritius has sold its stake in PL Shipping & Logistics via a strategic sale to Switzerland-based M+R Spedag Group. Paracor had a controlling stake in PL Shipping…
M&A Then and Now: What’s Changed
Extract from an article in Economic Times by RPG Group’s Harsh Goenka. Fast forward to the current era. We have learnt a lot over the decades and governed by our…
“Our India deal pipeline is getting stronger” – Interview with Christopher Nicholas of JP Morgan
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Christopher Nicholas, Head of JP Morgan’s Global Special Opportunities Group, the firm’s principal investment unit. Nicholas has spent 22 out of his 27 years of…
SKS Microfinance: The Private Equity Story
Between March 2006 and Nov 2008, SKS Microfinance received investments of $111 million from Private Equity – the largest by any company in this sector. PE investors in the company…
Is Vedanta’s Cairn acquisition a good one?
Gautam Chhabria has an interesting comment in reply to Menaka Doshi’s post on whether Vendata’s acquisition of Cairn India would work given that it does not fit Vendata’s “core competence”.…
“Holiday in India and pick up a degree too”
From the Business Today article Meet the brain behind Koenig: Rohit Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, who is on his way to becoming a successful first-mover in what is being broadly…
Low Cost Housing: Opportunity & Challenges
Business Today has an article on the opportunity that is drawing entrepreneurs from across the spectrum. So, what has made these players, most with no background in the realty or…
Creative strategies to desploy the PE dry powder
In an article published in Economic Times, Mayank Singhal, argues that PE firms in India have to come up with creative strategies to deploy the huge amounts of “dry powder”…
Business Today Profile of Ramky Enviro Engineers
From the profile of the Hyderabad-based Ramky Group’s waste management unit. For all his global ambitions, Rami Reddy, 45, knows his biggest strength is India, simply because REEL (Ramky Enviro…
Cleantech Investors Set Sight on Solar, Water Related Cos.
Catalyzed by new government policies favouring Solar Energy and multiple demand-driven opportunities for water-related companies, Private Equity & Venture Capital firms are focusing keenly on these Cleantech sectors, reveals a…