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Blackstone invests INR2.75bn into Indian powerThe investment will see the private equity firm take a minority stake in Monnet Power, a subsidiary of CX partners' Monnet Ispat and Energy.
- Moneymakers on the move
Demand for private equity talent in India is higher than ever before. For fund managers and their limited partners, this is proving a headache, reports Siddharth Poddar.
- Former Citi exec's fund closes on $515m
Former CVCI India head Ajay Relan will make growth equity investments in the Indian mid-market through the newly formed CX Partners.
- Ajay Relan quits CVCI
A pioneer of Citigroup's India PE business in the mid-1990s has left to set up his own firm and to raise a fund targeting $750 million.
- Ascent Capital closes $350m Fund III
This is the first fund raised by the Indian growth investment firm in which it shares the fund management with former parent UTI Ventures.
- Captive of industry
The majority of private equity funds in India are backed by large corporates, and if recent indications are anything to go by, this is not set to change anytime soon.
- Private equity investments in India fall by 67%
In the first eleven months of 2009, private equity firms invested just $3.25bn in India and the number of deals struck declined by more than 50%.
- Asia’s rising stars
PEI Asia asked some of the region’s leading private equity LPs to name their pick of the Asia Pacific region’s “first-time” funds. The results are the eight names listed on pages 16 and 17. While some of the people may be familiar, having already made their mark elsewhere in Asian private equity, the firms they run now are probably not – yet. They have had the toughest of challenges thrown at them, in the form of the economic downturn, but the expectation is that these eight firms will go on to establish themselves firmly in the bedrock of the Asian private equity industry. Reporting by Jenny Blinch, Siddharth Poddar and Yvette Choo
- Gordon Clancy leaves CVCI
The head of Citi Venture Capital International's Greater China and Asia Pacific business has retired.