At $26.3 bn, PE investment in India in 2018 was second-highest in a decade

Fundraising across Asia-Pacific slowed down, with China tightening rules for PE investment, but India-focused dry powder remained healthy at $11.1 billion

The private equity market in India remained a hotbed for deal-making in 2018, with a total of $26.3 billion coming in investments across 793 deals. This was the second-highest in a decade in terms of deal value, according to Bain & Company’s ‘2019 India Private Equity Report’, released on Tuesday in partnership with Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.

Private equity funds continue to prioritise deal quality over quantity, with the top 15 deals comprising about 40 per cent of total deal value and the number of deals greater than $50 million increasing from the previous year, Bain &