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Sebi's relaxed norms likely to give private equity firms faster exits

Sebi also plans to replace the "promoter" concept to "person in control"

Real estate gets pvt equity investments of $3.2 bn in Q1: Report

19 deals took place in this period

Private equity, VC investments rise 64% to $8.3 bln in March qtr: Report

266 deals took place in the period

Srei Eqpt Finance gets $250 mn equity infusion offer from global PE funds

Company panel to negotiate and conclude talks with the PE investors; Ernst & Young will be advising on the proposed fund raising exercise

GramCover plans to be one-stop shop for rural insurance needs: CEO Bhatt

The company was founded in 2017-18 by a clutch of private equity firms

Parikh family, former promoters of Zandu, exits pharma business

Sells stake in drug firm ZCL to PE firm Advent for Rs 1,600 cr

Windy Lakeside Investment picks stake worth Rs 800 cr in Adani Ports

The stake pick is subject to the approval of regulatory/ statutory authorities and the shareholders of the company.

Private equity interest can improve governance in banks: Rahul Bhasin

PEs need to engineer change and bring efficiency to the fore to deliver the returns demanded by their investors; or, alternatively, find outstandingly well-run banks to partner with, Bhasin said

FundVice to support startups with Rs 330 crore fund, accelerate 50 deals

Investment banking firm FundVice on Friday said it will support startups in India with a corpus of Rs 330 crore, which includes funding from its new fund Ryoma Ventures. The company has plans to raise up to Rs 250 crore and accelerate at least 50 deals by 2021-end. In addition, Fundvice has announced to set-up a sector-agnostic fund with about Rs 80 crore. "We have seen exciting start-ups that are revenue-generating but what they lack is the right support of investors. Various incubators, accelerators and mentors have been supporting the team of FundVice to support start-ups reach the heights they are at, but still lack investors. "To support them, we took the decision to start this fund, with the support of everyone, as the next step towards making a dent in the start-up ecosystem," Heena Aroora, Managing Director - FundVice and Ryoma Ventures, said in a statement. The company said it plans to close this fund soon with its present investors and is also looking at collaborations w

Sharp rise in Micro VC investments as 566 startups get $341 mn in 3 years

With the startup ecosystem blooming in India, the number of such funds rose from 29 in 2014 to 88 funds last year

PE firm TIW invests close to $6 mn in Mahesh Bhupathi's Scentials

TIW Private Equity (TIW PE) on Tuesday said it has invested close to $6 million (about Rs 43.7 crore) in Scentials Beauty Care and Wellness

Advent to buy controlling stake in ZCL at enterprise value of Rs 1,700 cr

Advent is a private equity fund

Abu Dhabi's ADQ to invest $75 mn in Biocon Biologics for 1.8% stake

Transaction values firm, which plans to list and is a subsidiary of Biocon, at $4.17 bn

Private equity deals more than double to $33.8 billion in 2020: Report

A slew of private equity transactions in 2020 has pushed up the money inflows through this route by 108 per cent to $33.8 billion, according to an industry report

PE firms, sovereign funds want discount, exit route for Mistry stake

According to a senior executive of a top global private equity fund, the shares should be available at 20 to 40 per cent discount.

PE firm TPG Capital asks Puneet Bhatia to honour shareholders' verdict

According to sources, TPG, which has investments in several firms domestically as well as globally, doesn't want to be at odds with voting advisory firms and shareholders over any governance issues

RBI's order could spell trouble for ARC-owning PE funds, say experts

The RBI had recently rejected a resolution plan - approved by the National Company Law Tribunal in June - that proposed selling Aircel's assets to UV Asset Reconstruction Company (UVARC)

IPL 2020: Dream11 in talks with several PE, VC firms to raise $50 million

Upcoming funding round may dilute Tencent's stake

Advent International to acquire controlling stake in RA Chem Pharma

Private equity firm Advent International said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Hyderabad-based RA Chem Pharma Ltd from pharma firm Micro Labs

Inflows into Jio limit fall in H1 PE/VC investments to 10% at $18.3 bn

In terms of deal type, buyouts were the most affected with only 14 transactions worth $794 million compared to 27 worth $6.2 billion in the year-ago period