India topped the global chart for total amount raised through American depository receipts (ADRs) this year (January-July), beating China and Taiwan.
Atul Choksey, the former co-promoter of Asian Paints, has exited from Standard Chartered Mutual Fund.
Private equity players in India, triggered by consolidation of domestic businesses, cross-border M&As (merger and acquisitions) and split in family-owned companies, are going for big buyouts, mostly, management buyouts.
India's successful mega share offerings are creating waves globally.
Australia-based Insurance Australia Group is in advanced talks to buy a 26 per cent stake in HDFC Chubb General Insurance, following the buyout of Chubb's stake by HDFC.
With pressure mounting on 18 regional exchanges to demutualise, some bourses have decided to shut shop, while others are going in for demutualisation - leading to an eventual consolidation.
Warburg Pincus, a US-based private equity firm, has put in the highest bid worth Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) for ICICI Bank shares.
The Rahejas and Star TV are together selling 15 per cent in cable network operator Hathway Cable to private equity firm ChrysCapital.
According to a Thomson Financial research, no Indian investment bank figures in the top ten list of the M&A deals that was struck this year, which was topped by UBS.
UK-headquartered Standard Chartered Bank is set to become the third foreign player to enter the Indian retail stock brokerage business by buying a 49 per cent stake in UTI Securities for Rs 140-150 crore.
The stage is all set for a battle among stock exchanges for setting up separate exchanges for small and medium enterprises as they top bourses.
Citigroup's private equity arm Citigroup Venture Capital International, Baring Private Equity, TPG and 3i are the front-runners to acquire an equity stake in Sharekhan, the retail brokerage arm of the Mumbai-based SSKI group.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest stock exchange, plans to launch a separate trading platform for small and medium enterprises. Sources close to the development said the BSE was preparing a strategy for an SME exchange.
Oman's largest bank BankMuscat, which recently picked up 43 per cent stake in the domestic brokerage house Mangal Keshav Group
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is expected to shortly release a circular asking mutual fund houses not to park more than 15 per cent of their corpus as bank deposits at any point of time.
In its filing dated March 29, the company has said that its ability to develop the land reserves and generate the estimated developable area are subject to a number of risks such as defective title to the lands which could be legally challenged.
The much-awaited trading in corporate bonds will start on the National and the Bombay Stock Exchanges from July 1. This is expected to energise the moribund debt market.
Public sector undertakings Bharat Earth Movers (BEML), Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), Power Grid Corporation of India and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), are slated to hit the market with their IPOs.
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Unlike last year when private equity participants exited through strategic deals with third party investors, this year PEs are opting to exit via initial public offerings route.
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