16 January 2008

VC, PE updates,Jobs from VCCircle.com, Indiape.com

vccircle.com

Jacob Ballas Too Picks Up Rs 40 Cr Worth Shares In Mahindra Holidays
FIPB Clears Blackstone-Ushodaya Deal; But Will The Fund Sign The Check?
PE-Backed Shriram EPC IPO Gets ‘Average’ Rating From Crisil

Essar’s Kenyan Safari: Acquires Stakes In Refinery, Telco
Avesthagen IPO By Year-End; To Raise $200-300 Million Through Share Sale
Axis Bank’s Private Equity Arm To Close Its $500 Million Infra Fund Soon

ICICI Venture’s I-Ven Medicare To Rope In Strategic Partner; Plans IPO
ICICI Venture Invests Rs 65 Crore In Kolkata Hospital Chain Medica Synergie
Buzz & Hype: Reliance Power IPO Oversold 11 Times On Day One

UK’s Ashmore Invests $23 Million In Hyderabad Hospital Chain Quality Care
Goldman To Buy 39% In M Pallonji Enterprises; To Up Stake In MetLife Insurance
Grameen Foundation, IFMR Trust, Citicorp Launch MFI-Focused Investment Bank

State-owned Telco BSNL Plans India’s Largest IPO To Raise $10 Billion
Inox To Invest Rs 100 Crore In Indiareit In Return For “Preferred Tenancy”
Inox To Invest Rs 100 Crore In Indiareit In Return For “Preferred Tenancy”

DE Shaw Invests $15 Million In Soham Renewable Energy
More Media Companies Follow BCCL With Private Treaty Divisions
New Vernon To Invest Rs 55 Crore For 9.5% Stake In Prime Securities

Power Finance Corp Joins Hands With Clear Trade For $1 Billion Fund
Nasscom-ICICI Knowledge Park’s $25 Million-Early Stage Fund Kicks Off
Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund Invests $30 Million In Gland Pharma

Clearstone Venture To Invest Rs 16 Crore In Elbee Express; More Deals
A Host Of Government Backed IPOs On Cards
PE-Backed Tecpro Makes Pre-IPO Placement of 5% To Credit Suisse, Kotak

Motilal Oswal Venture Capital Invests Rs 25 Crore In Domestic Focused Effort BPO
UK Asset Management Firm Somerset Picks Up 9% In Core Projects Parent
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IndiaPE.com

NIIT signs deal to buy 48% stake in Evolv
ICICI ropes in global healthcare investor
Essar seals deal to buy 50% stake in Kenyan refinery

Goldman Sachs arm eyes up to 39% stake in M Pallonji
Koutons Retail to buy 51% of Upper Class
India tops with 160 PE fund houses, China has 115

India tops 2007 Asian private equity league
Pearl Fashions to acquire 75% in Hong Kong-based Simple Approach
Clear Investments , PFC to float $1 bn PE fund

Essar arm buys 49% in Kenya-based Econet Wireless
Nasscom, ICICI arm join for Rs 100-cr VC fund
Evolvence invests Rs 120 crore in Gland Pharma expansion
Red Fort launches $250 million domestic Fund



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