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The Carlyle Group spent half of its invested capital last year on “corporate and real estate transactions”, as the private equity giant concentrated on fundraising during a difficult time for dealmaking and exits in the buyout industry. According to its annual report, released yesterday, Carlyle invested and committed $5.2bn (€4.1bn) last year. Of that amount, $2.7bn was spent on 47 “new corporate and real estate transactions with a cumulative enterprise value of more than $4.4bn”. These transactions included 23 in new real estate deals worth $524m and an additional $501m in residential mortgage-backed securities. Like other private equity firms, Carlyle generated few exits from its investments last year. Four of its Chinese portfolio companies went public, raising $3.8bn, and US-based SS&C Technologies Holdings raised $160.5m through its listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange. […]
Emerging markets fund firm Ashmore said on Thursday it has launched a fund jointly with power trading firm PTC India that aims to raise $750 million to finance power projects across all energy-related sectors in India. India's power sector, beset by a peak power deficit of 12 percent, has struggled to attract foreign investment in recent years, but the tide seems to be changing. In March, a group of investors including Morgan Stanley's infrastructure arm, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic said it invested $425 million in Asian Genco Pte Ltd, which has stakes in power generation assets in India. […]
ICICI Venture, the private equity arm of lender ICICI Bank , plans to launch a $500 million fund by July to invest in infrastructure projects, its chief executive said. “In the private equity context I would put education (and) hospital as part of infrastructure, but there is also a big opportunity on serious infrastructure like roads, ports, power,” Vishakha Mulye told Reuters in an interview. India has made building of roads, bridges, airports and power plants a priority and expects private firms to fund half of a projected $1 trillion in infrastructure between 2012 and 2017. India's diversified conglomerate Tata Group and private equity firm Actis aim to bid for $2 billion of road projects in India over the next five years as the country makes a major push to build highways. […]
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd. (DCBL), and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, “KKR”) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which KKR has agreed to invest up to Rs 750crores in DCBL’s wholly owned unlisted subsidiary (“Company”) which will house post restructuring DCBL’s 9MTPA cement manufacturing capacity, DCBL’s stake in OCL India Limited (5.3MTPA capacity) along with the upcoming green field projects of 10MTPA across the country. The use of proceeds will be for both organic / inorganic growth and de-leveraging. “When we realigned our businesses in March, 2010, one of our goals was to create separate pure play entities that could thrive on their own and have flexibility to raise capital. This transaction with KKR is not just about capital but the foundation of a long term relationship. It will enable us to enhance our capacity and market share through organic as well as inorganic routes, while benefiting from KKR’s global network and proven value creation capabilities,” said Mr. Puneet Dalmia, MD of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited. […]
ICICI Venture is planning to launch a $222mn (Rs.1,000-crore) domestic real estate fund. It plans to close the fund in 6-12 months and will invest in projects in top five to seven cities. It was also looking to launch an offshore fund by the end of this year. Sanjeev Dasgupta, president, real estate, ICICI Venture, confirmed the plans but said that the exact amount is yet to be decided. He said that a domestic fund offers a lot more flexibility, as offshore funds are restricted by FDI norms. It is also difficult to raise an offshore fund in the current environment. Dasgupta said a number of projects which were not FDI-compliant were available at attractive rates now. […]
Salt-to-steel conglomerate Tata Group is forming a joint venture with private equity investor Actis that could spend $2 billion (about Rs 8,900 crore) in building roads over five years, as Indian and foreign investors seek to cash in on opportunities created by the governments attempt to upgrade the countrys network of highways, the third largest after the US and China. Tata Realty & Infrastructure, a company set up by the Tata group to foray into the roads and highways sector, will own 65% of the venture, called TRIL Roads Pvt Ltd. Actis will own the rest, Tata Realty managing director & CEO Sanjay Ubale told ET. Actis will pay $77.5 million, or Rs 345 crore, to buy the stake in TRIL Roads in its first investment in the Indian infrastructure sector, said its partner Michael Till. […]
In its first investment, the private equity (PE) arm of Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Capital Ltd has purchased a stake worth Rs100 crore in Pathways World School, a group of schools for students from kindergarten to Class XII. The size of the stake acquired by Reliance Equity Advisors (India) Ltd hasn’t been disclosed. Reliance Equity Advisors is seeking to tap annual growth in the education sector that its chief executive officer Ramesh Venkat estimates at 50-60%. A recent report by education-focused PE fund Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd has estimated that the so-called K-12 segment (kindergarten to Class XII) is a $20 billion (around Rs89,000 crore) business. “Also, there are a lot of government initiatives and policy changes which are attracting investment in the sector,” Venkat said. […]
Ananta Capital, an alternative investment fund set up in August last year, is raising a total of $150 million for its two funds — a pledge fund focused on private equity deals, and an equity fund dedicated to stake acquisitions in publicly-traded companies. Jaganath Swamy, managing partner, Ananta Capital, said both funds had so far drawn commitments of $20 million from limited partners (LPs), high networth individuals and financial institutions. “We are looking at closing $110 million in the next three-four months for both funds. The pledge fund is designed to be LP-friendly and will be focussed primarily on the advanced materials and renewable energy sectors in India,” Swami said. […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has made its first investment in an India-focused private equity fund. The pension fund investor agreed to commit up to $100m to the fund managed by India's Multiples Alternate Asset Management, set up by former ICICI Venture managing director Renuka Ramnath less than a year ago. Multiples said the CPPIB was one of the key investors in the domestic and international fund, reflecting pension funds growing appetite for emerging markets private equity funds. The firm has announced a first close of its first private equity product at $250m. It is targeting $450m. “I look forward to building Multiples as a bridge between providers of long-term risk capital and the new generation of capital hungry entrepreneurs in India,” said Ramnath. […]
Global private equity (PE) firm Carlyle Group is planning to invest around $850 million (around Rs 3,750 crore) in India in the near future, according to the fund. It has raised $2.55 billion under Carlyle Asia Partners (CAP) III Fund from international investors to invest in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan. One- third of the amount is proposed to be invested in India. The size of the last CAP fund for the region was $1.8 billion, of which $600 million was put in housing finance company HDFC in 2007. “We have raised the fund at the right time as companies are coming back to investing ways. They have already started contracting debt and the next in the round will be equity,” said Rajeev Gupta, managing director of the Carlyle Group in India. […]
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