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Springer May Sell Its Indian Outsourcing Arm Scientific Publishing Services

Ramky Group May Get $100 Million From Lehman Brothers

Shalimar Paints An “Ideal Buyout Candidate”: Report

US PE Fund Baseline Partners Launches In Hyderabad With $100 Million Corpus

OnMobile IPO Gets Above Average Grade From CRISIL; To Raise Rs 350-450 Crore

Movie Distribution Houses Like Shemaroo In Talks With Private Equity Funds

Indian Defence Supplier MTAR Technologies Gets $65 Million From Blackstone

New Ventures Says It Helped 3 Green Startups Raise $4 Million

HSBC To Invest $1.1 Billion In India In Private Equity And Real Esate

Matrix Partners Trebles Fund Size To $450 Million; To Make Growth Capital Investments Of $10-30 Million

News Roundup: Aastha Broadcasting, Appu Hotels, MChek

DTH Company Tata Sky In Talks With PE Firms To Raise $150-200 Million

Mumbai Based Indigo Restaurant Talking To VCs

24/7 Learning Raises $4 Million From Capital18, Venture Capital Arm Of Network18

Kirusa Gets $3 Million More In Series C Funding From Qualcomm Ventures, Others

Retail-Focused Startup Jasper Gets Angel Funding

Avesthagen Set To Buy A Delhi Seed Company

Bajaj Auto Buys Stake In European Sports Bike Maker KTM For $76 Million

Videocon Buys Music Retail Chain Planet M For Rs 200 Crore

Sony Entertainment Television May Sell Stake To Private Equity Investors

Clearwater Capital Partners Invests In BSEL-Led Real Estate Project

Eredene Capital, Apeejay Surrendra Team Up for Logistics Park In Haldia

Tech I-Bank Chesapeake Sets Up India Office; Hires Infosys’s Siddhartha Padam

Ess Dee Aluminium Readies Rs 600 Crore Acquisition Warchest

Infosys BPO To Enter Legal Process Outsourcing Business

“The Market For Protein Sequencers Is Worth $20 Billion”

Leela Group Set To Get $1.25 Billion Funding From US Fund, Probably Blackstone

Citi’s Chuck Prince To Quit Sunday; Will Vikram Pandit Get The Top Job?

France’s Eliokem Buys Apar’s Polymer Business For $28 Million

3i And Other Investors Looking To Exit Nimbus Communications: Report

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From Indiape.com

Usha Martin to sell cable subsidiary
ICICI Ven to buy Karvy stake

Wexford Capital entered India with a $100 million PE fund
Blackstone invested $65 mln in MTAR Technologies

IFCI stake sale may be delayed
Tata Sky to raise up to $200 mn from PE players

HSBC set for PE play in India
Amtek may buy UK co for Rs 600 crore

Realty accelerates India to top PE slot in Asia
India overtakes China in PE funds

Videocon to buy Planet M
Unitech promoters may buy up to 40% stake in Orissa Sponge

PE biggies queue up for 32% in SET
PIPE deals popular even as markets soar

Bajaj buys into Europe’s No. 2 sports-bike maker

India overtakes China in PE funds
by Sanjeev Bhalla on Tue 06 Nov 2007 10:33 AM IST
Private equity (PE) investment in India has overtaken China this year to emerge as the biggest Asian destination (excluding Japan) for PE funds. Investments have crossed $10 billion between January-October as against $8.3 billion recorded in China in the same period, says a report from investment advisory firm IndusView. China received $13 billion worth of PE investments in 2006 compared to $7 billion in India during the same period. The equation has, however, changed since then with India leading the Asian charts this year. Real estate and infrastructure emerged as the top sectors attracting PE investment in India this year accounting for half of the total PE money flowing into India through 52 deals. Out of this, real estate received $2.6 billion through 32 deals. Real estate as a sector was closely followed by telecom with $ 2.1 billion worth of PE investments



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