India Equity Partners

The firm has strengthened its investment team with the hire of Sid Khanna, fomerly a global managing partner at Accenture, and two other partners from the consulting firm.

Private equity firms exited a record 121 companies in India during 2010, while investments almost doubled to $7.97bn from the 2009 figure, according to recent data.

Infrastructure investing in Asia is gradually emerging from the shadow of the private equity asset class, finds Siddharth Poddar.

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.

Limited partners who discourage GPs from making investments should be sued, the founder of Siguler Guff told delegates at this week’s The Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum in London.

Arun Sarin, former chief of Accel-KKR Telecom, has returned to work for the publicly traded asset management firm.

The India-focused private equity firm is reportedly upping its stake in the publicly traded telecom infrastructure company.

The global buyout firm has moved Nathaniel Taylor from its Menlo Park office to Mumbai, where it established an office in January.

The Middle Eastern private equity firm has done its debut deal from is maiden $1bn telecom, media and technology-focused fund.