IL & FS Milestone Fund I, a private equity fund co-promoted by IL & FS and Milestone Capital Advisors, has invested Rs.139 crore in The Cerebrum B2, the 2nd tower of Kumar Builders’ three tower IT Park, ‘The Cerebrum’ at Kalyani Nagar. The three lakh sqft building, which is part of the 1 million sq ft ‘The Cerebrum’, is already complete and ready for handover to the institutional investor, stated a press release.   more »

Private equity funds IDFC Private Equity Co. Ltd (IDFC PE) and UTI Ventures have acquired substantial stakes in Deepak Cables (India) Ltd, a Bangalore-based unlisted manufacturer of aluminium conductor wires, for some Rs285 crore, two bankers familiar with the transaction said. IDFC PE invested Rs200 crore from its $700 million (about Rs3,353 crore) IDFC Fund-III, Satish Mandhana, managing director of the fund, confirmed. UTI Ventures invested the remaining, he added. Both funds have acquired stakes from the promoter and managing director of Deepak Cables K. Venkateshwara Rao and his family.   more »

Deepak Cables (India) Ltd has announced a private equity investment of Rs2bn from IDFC Private Equity (IDFC PE), India’s leading private equity fund focussed on infrastructure. Deepak Cables is one of the leading players in the power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) space having captive aluminium conductor manufacturing facilities. Bangalore based Deepak Cables was promoted by visionary industrialist K. Surya Rao. It started in 1982 as an aluminium conductors manufacturing company and over the last two decades has grown to become one of the largest T&D EPC players in the country. Deepak Cables with its two aluminium conductor manufacturing plants at Tumkur and Pondicherry and in-house design and engineering capabilities is one of the few players having the expertise to execute projects end-to-end: from design to commissioning.   more »

The Blackstone Group has taken a majority stake in Mumbai-based CMS Computers and set-up up a company by carving out the IT infrastructure management and outsourced business services division. The new company's valuation is estimated to be around Rs 500-550 crore. Blackstone is understood to have taken slightly less than 55 per cent stake, and Rajiv Kaul -- appointed as its executive vice chairman and CEO -- is understood to have taken a minority stake of around 5 per cent. Till recently, Kaul was a global partner with Actis Capital LLP based out of London. Prior to that, he was with Microsoft for over 10 years. His last assignment at Microsoft was as senior director for emerging markets, including BRIC-based in Redmond and the US.   more »