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Exclusive: Shaadi To Tie Up Second Round Funding With Goldman Sachs
Tano Capital Invests $15 Million In ABG Motors; To Fund Italian Acquisition
Soros Takes A Fancy To Biyani’s Finance Arm

Jagdish Khattar Wants To Set Up India’s AutoNation
Bhilwara Energy To Raise $250 Million For Mini Power Projects
Reliance Entertainment Buys Pune’s Anirights Infomedia

Kadle Effect: Tata Capital To Buy Stake In Auto Comp Firm
Societe Generale To Raise $296 Million For Residential Real Estate In India
Real Estate Roundup: Global Biggies Eyeing Investments Worth $25 Billion

Online Ad Agency Webchutney Raises Money From Capital18
ACK Media Acquires Amar Chitra Katha From India Book House
Religare Trebles On Listing; Edelweiss Capital Issue Oversubscribes 109 Times

BVR Subbu’s Argentum Motors Raises $50 Million In Private Equity
Kubera Cross Border Fund Invests $20 Million In Venture Infotek
JC Flowers Acquires Stake In Maharashtra’s State-Owned NBFC Sicom

HT Media Acquires Social Networking Website Desimartini.com
Moser Baer Pumps More Money Into SolFocus
Exclusive: HT Media Kicks Off PE Activity; Picks Up 10% In Chinese Food Chain Crazy Noodles

NRI-Targeted VOD Company TinselVision Closes Series B Financing
Kubera Partners Plans To Close 4-5 Deals By Year End; To Raise $225M More
Vallabhdas Kanji To Raise Rs 30 Cr From Argonaut Private Equity; IPO Next Year

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DLF Raises $424 Million From Merrill Lynch, Brahma Investments
WPP Digital Announces Acquisition Of 75% In Quasar
US Private Equity Firm Buys 5% In Central Securities Depository Ltd

Dubai-based Baer Capital Plans $500M-Infra And Real Estate Fund
Acme Tele Raises $150-200 Million In Pre-IPO Placement From Capital, Bhartia
ICICI Venture May Invest $800 Million in Jaypee Infratech

VC Circle Forum On Nov 30 In Bangalore; Registration Closed
Foreign Law Firms May Come In Phases
Karvy Raises Rs 500 Cr From ICICI Venture, Baring Asia; Valued Between Rs 1,800-Rs 2,400 Cr

ICICI Venture Reportedly Looking At Shalimar Paints
UTI Ventures Invests Rs 32 Crore In Waste Management Firm PESCO BEAM


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Merrill Lynch bought stake in seven real estate projects
Gitanjali buys US-based Rogers for $18.5 mn
WPP Digital acquires 75% stake of Quasar

Argonaut to invest Rs 30 cr in Vallabhdas Kanji
Capital Partners to pick up stake in Acme Telepower
ICICI arm plans Jaypee stake buy

Plethico Pharma to acquire Natrol
PEs queue up to check into hospitality sector
Singapore, Gulf funds eye 5% in Reliance Power

SAIF Partners may invest Rs 100 cr in Anupam Group
Knight Frank to launch $250 million India-focused real estate fund
Baer Capital Plans $500 Million Fund for India

Carlsberg buys 60% of Parag
PEs set to bring in $48 billion by 2010
GTL acquires Malaysia network firm for $25 mn



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CLSA To Boost PE Investments To $3 Billion; To Expand Investment Banking In India
Shriram Transport Finance To Raise Rs 360 Crore From Tiger, Blue Ridge, Kampani

KR Choksey Too Wants To Raise Private Equity
Lok Capital Gets $2.5M From Accion; To Close First Fund At $20M By Jan ‘08

News Roundup: DLF Buys Luxury Spa Amanresorts; Calsoft Picks Up US Firm
Trikona Capital To Raise Rs 1,500 Crore Domestic Real Estate Fund

Guruji May Close Under $10 Million In Series B From Sandstone Capital
Kleiner Perkins To Zero In On Solar, Distributed Generation Space In India

Cafe Coffee Day To Raise $95 Million From DB, Templeton Darby
Kleiner Perkins Takes On Al Gore As Partner; To Up Cleantech Investments

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Trikona Capital to raise Rs1,500 cr India realty fund
Footprint Ventures to focus on India-US-Israel triangle

DLF buys Amanresorts for $250 million
VC funds bet on e-learning, digital media firms in October

Private equity investors to take 10% stake in ABCTL’s retail business
Infinity FCS buys 25% in Brazil's Lumiere


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ICICI Venture Invests $10 Million In RG Stone Urological Research Institute
Exclusive: Sequoia Invests In In-Store Media Company DSN

Mallya May Sell A Minority Stake In United Spirits To Diageo: Report


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Matrix Partners India expands fund to $450 million
M&As, PE deals total $63.5 billion till Oct

Diageo eyeing stake in United Spirits
Indiaco Ventures acquires 20.83% stake in Laser Cosmetics Pvt Ltd

ICICI Venture invests US $ 10 million in RG Stone Urological Research Institute
Mittal eyes 50% stake in HPCL subsidiary

Lehman Brothers to pick up 10% in Ramky for $100 mn
Baseline to invest $100 mn in India

Sweden's Securitas buys stake in India's Walsons
PE investors pour money into virgin sectors


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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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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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Sam Zell’s Equity Group To Set Up Office In India For Private Equity Operations

Tatas Favourite To Buy Ford’s Jaguar and Land Rover

Bharti Telecom Minority Shareholder Selling Out Cheap

Apollo Health Street To Sell 15% Stake Via IPO For $70 Million

Clearwater Has Invested $450 Million In 26 Companies In India

Water Management Firm Doshion Gets $9 Million From IDFC PE

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Daimler out of race for India's Eicher stake

Norwegian IT major ‘EDB’ buys 50.1% stake in ‘SPAN Infotech’

Clearwater to invest Rs 480 cr in 4 PE deals in next 3 months

Nimbus May Sell Stake to Strategic Partner

Mauritian firm Tuscany to buy stake in Bharti Telecom

Marico acquires Enaleni’s subsidiary

Natixis out of IFCI stake sale

India is a key market for investment in Asia

IDFC invests Rs35 cr in Doshion

Ergo picks up 26% in HDFC insurance firm

DS Constructions to pick up 22% of Greek company

Pyramid Saimira buys FunAsia theatres

ePlanet Ventures Invests in Trivitron

Old Lane invests $26mn in KVK Energy



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Manipal Group Invests $2.5 Million In TutorVista

Deutsche Bank To Invest $127 Million In HCC’s Lavasa Real Estate Project

Tejas Networks Gets $24 Million From Goldman Sachs In Pre-IPO Placement

Indivision To Pick Up 33% In Chennai Wind Turbine Maker Regen Powertech

Former Goldman Execs Pick Up 5.1% In Future Capital

Sify Becomes Sify Technologies; Focus On Remote Infrastructure Management

Goldman Sachs Takes Majority Stake In Sigma Electric For $172 Million

Evalueserve Report Part II: Private Equity In India Vis-a-Vis Other Economies

SIDBI Venture Capital To Invest $5-6 Million In Home Appliances Maker Stovecraft

ICICI Venture To Raise $2B For Property Fund; IDFC PE Too Mulls A Fund



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Pre-IPO Placement: Merrill Lynch Buys 5% In Broking Firm Religare For Rs 62 Crore

India May Receive As Much As $20 Billion In Private Equity By 2010

Fairfax To Raise $4 Billion By June ‘08 For Indian Firms From London’s AIM

QVC Realty Raise $200 Million In Second Round

News Round Up: Blackstone, Satyagriha Project, SCPE

Mumbai’s AK Capital Services Gets Rs 36 Crore From South Africa’s RMB

Ventureast Plans to Raise New Funds Worth $150 Million By March’08

IFC Picks Up 12.5% Stake In Angel Broking For Rs 150 Crore

ItzCash Gets $10 Million From Matrix Partners India, Intel Capital



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