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The Asian A-listPEI Asia presents the 2009 Asian winners in the tenth annual Private Equity International Awards.
- Temasek to invest $200m in GMR Energy
The smaller of the two Singaporean sovereign wealth funds is backing the Indian company’s energy expansion plans.
- Study: Indian deals fall, exits rise in 2009
Private equity deal volume in India in 2009 declined 48% compared to 2008, but the number of exits increased to 66 from 36 in the same period.
- Quadrangle enters Asia with $300m telecom deal
The New York-based firm has led seven other investors in backing Tower Vision, as they look to capitalise on India's rapidly growing wireless telecoms market.
- India’s telecom sector calls on private equity
India is the world’s second largest market in terms of mobile phone subscribers and also one of its fastest-growing. With more than 60 percent of the population still without access to telephones, there are opportunities aplenty for private equity – as recent deals show.
- Report: IDFC Private Equity to inject INR2.5bn in Quippo
The India-focused private equity firm is reportedly upping its stake in the publicly traded telecom infrastructure company.
- IDFC builds fund of funds team
Veronica John-led IDFC Capital has set up shop in Singapore and made new hires as it prepares to raise a $500m emerging markets fund of funds.
- VCs inject $93m into Indian opticals group
IDFC Private Equity, its parent company IDFC and CDC Group are part of a consortium participating in a second round of funding for Moser Baer PhotoVoltaic.
- Axis Private Equity raises $150m
Initial fundraising efforts for yet another infrastructure fund in India draw to a close, underpinning the sector’s appetite for private equity investments in the country.
- IDFC Private Equity backs carbon credit advisory company
The infrastructure-focussed private equity firm has invested R400 million in a clean energy service company, its third such investment in the last six months.