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US private equity fund Lone Star lays off majority of Asia staff: Report

The people accounted for more than 75% of the total workforce in Asia ex-Japan

Bella Vita Organic raises $10 million to scale up personal care products

The firm, which has a portfolio of face care, body care and hair care products, has been profitable since inception and plans to push the pedal on growth with this fund-raise

Blackstone's $250 mn to make Simplilearn world's top digital skills co: CEO

The firm, which is already global, will use the funding to double down in its primary markets such as the US and India and expand in Europe and LatAm

Real estate fund managers rush to raise fresh money as banks baulk

Early this week, ASK Property Investment Advisors (ASK PIA), the real estate private equity arm of ASK Group, launched a fund with a corpus of Rs 1,000 crore

PE/VC investments decline 22% to $5.4 bn in June, up 45% in H1: Report

Investments by private equity and venture capital funds declined by 22 per cent to $5.4 billion in June, as compared to the $6.9 billion in the year-ago period

Indian PE funds looking for exit from companies toy with SPACs in US

Discussion has started between blank check companies in the US and Indian PEs on possible deals in certain key sectors

Zomato's Rs 9,375-crore IPO to bring bonanza for Info Edge, Sequoia, Goyal

The existing shareholders of the company are set to make gains in the range of 50 per cent to 6,450 per cent on their investments

When brilliance and greed converge

Book review of The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

UK's Morrisons rejects $7.6 billion takeover proposal from CD&R

The board of Bradford, northern England-based Morrisons rejected the proposal on Thursday.

Private equity, venture capital investments fall in May to $3.6 bn: Report

This compares to April's $7.5 billion and the year-ago period's $5.4 billion

Second Covid-19 wave leads to sharp dip in PE volumes and value in May

Overall deal values halve to $3,194 million in May from a month earlier

Plummeting RE tariffs edge out small players even as bigger ones expand biz

The sharp drop in renewable energy tariffs is encouraging smaller players to exit even as larger ones look to innovative financing methods to expand their portfolios

Private equity firms in deal to acquire Medline for about $34 billion

At least eight buyout firms had last month been preparing offers for the company

Covid-19 pandemic: PEs pour $584 million into healthcare in 2021

Highest investment in the sector in last 5 years; pandemic expands opportunities

Deal numbers touch a decadal high in April despite Covid-19 pandemic

Achieving market leadership position appeared to be the rationale for the big-ticket domestic transactions

Zydus Animal Health buyout catapults Multiples into the big league

Multiples' deal ticket size in the first fund was only $30 million and in the second around $50 million

PE funds ready cash, scout for bulk-buying social e-commerce start-ups

Customers get large discounts and the platform enjoys the benefits of scale and lower costs

Rationalising regulation

Sebi's proposals are in line with changing investor landscape

Private equity players divided on reason for decline in exit deals

According to data from VCC Edge which tracks PE investments, in the first quarter of the calendar year, the value of total PE exit deals has fallen by 7 per cent to hit $1,938 million

Blackstone Group elevates India PE head Amit Dixit to head of Asia PE

Under Dixit, Blackstone did many big ticket deals in India, including a deal to acquire Piramal Glass from Ajay Piramal group at an enterprise valuation of Rs 7,500 cr