Tombstones with a difference
From Reuters’ report on how a record number of M&A deals were canceled during the year. Most investment bankers would like to forget about the disastrous year that was 2008…
Is the doom & gloom overdone?
Extracts from a Roundtable discussion organized by Economic Times, featuring Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Tata Sons executive director R Gopalakrishnan, JP Morgan India CEO Kalpana Morparia and…
Why China couldn’t decouple
Yasheng Huang, a professor of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has an interesting article in WSJ. The fundamental problem, and a mortal bias of economists, is…
Investment Banking Handbook & Directory – Updated Version
Venture Intelligence has published an updated edition of its Investment Banking Handbook & Directory. The handbook is as an authoritative and comprehensive guide for both entrepreneurs and Private Equity /…
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 MFIs have become a magnet for PE investors
Growth, growth and growth says this article in Economic Times. This shift in the nature of the investor has been driven by scorching growth in the micro finance sector over…
“Multiplex business is recession proof”
Extracts from Economic Times’ interview with Ajay Bijli, CMD of multiplex operator PVR. I, like some of my peers in the industry, hold the view that the entertainment industry is…
“Make or Break Years for Emerging Market PE Funds”
In an video interview to Private Equity Online, Jonathon Bond, Head of fundraising and investor relations at Actis (the UK-based emerging markets specialist which closed a new $2.9 billion fund…
Will Kingfisher Airlines navigate the air-pockets?
Business Today has a Cover Story on the path forward for Kingfisher Airlines. Kingfisher Airline’s yet-to-be revealed balance sheet may be weak, but there have been enough developments in recent…
What Next for SKS?
Business Today has an article profiling the journey of SKS Microfinance thus far and looks at the challenges ahead for the VC-backed microfinance company. In just under 10 years, Vikram…