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A realty fund managed by Motilal Oswal Private Equity Advisors (MOPE) on Thursday said it has tied up with two realty players to develop a 16-acre land parcel in Pune. The land, located at Somatane on the city outskirts, has an estimated development potential of 7 lakh square feet, MOPE said in a statement. Its India Realty Excellence Fund has formed a joint venture along with realty players Supreme Universal and Mirchandani Group, it said. The joint venture will build […] Peepul Capital LLC, a Hyderabad-based private equity fund, is likely to invest Rs 500-Rs 1,000 crore in debt-ridden Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL), which publishes English newspapers Deccan Chronicle, Financial Chronicle and Asian Age, and Telugu daily Andhra Bhoomi. When contacted, Peepul Capital Managing Director C Srinivasa Raju said the company was willing to invest in Deccan Chronicle Holdings. However, he declined to specify the amount. “Our investment in DCHL would be from our $700-million fund (which includes $100 million […] Private equity activity in India witnessed an uptick in August with a combined deal value of $1.8 billion, the highest so far this year. Out of 38 deals, Bain Capital’s acquisition of a 30 per cent equity stake in Genpact for $1 billion was the highlight, accounting for over half the cumulative deal value, according to research and consultancy firm Grant Thornton’s latest ‘Dealtracker’ report. IT, ITeS lead The Bain-Genpact deal enabled the part-exit of Genpact’s existing investors, General Atlantic […] Sovereign fund Temasek Holdings is in talks with Actis to acquire the latter’s stake in Bangalore-based retail chain Nilgiris Dairy Farm. Sources in the know, however, say a dispute between Actis and the promoters of Nilgiris is likely to disrupt the talks. Actis, which had acquired a stake of about 51 per cent in Nilgiris for Rs 300 crore ($65 million) six years earlier, had, in the recent past, increased the stake to 67 per cent. Though Actis has been […] The ongoing turmoil in the Indian coal sector is not merely about suspect allocations and inept domestic companies that have failed to utilise their captive assets. At stake is also about $1.8 billion of private equity (PE) money that has been brought into the thermal power sector between 2008 and 2012, according to Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on PE and M&A. Of this $1.8 billion, Blackstone Group, the New York Stock Exchange-listed global investment and advisory firm, has […] |