Blackstone completely exits out of Sona. Made enviable returns.

Funds affiliated with Blackstone were classified as promoters and held 20.50% in the Sona Comstar before this transaction. Blackstone has now sold off this final balance 20.5% @ Rs 410/ share aggregating to Rs 4,917 cr through open market bulk deals Buyers included Foreign Institutional Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Domestic Mutual Funds and Insurance. companies. … Read more

SVB in talks to sell itself, as crisis triggers global banking rout

SVB Financial Group’s efforts to raise money have failed and the troubled bank was in talks to sell itself, CNBC reported on Friday, as a crisis at the tech-heavy lender rippled through global markets and hit banking stocks. Shares of SVB Financial Group were halted on Friday after tumbling 66% in premarket trading. SVB, which … Read more

Kauvery Hospitals receives $70 million investment from private equity fund managed by IIFL AMC

Dr. Manivannan (left) Founder and Managing Director and Dr. Chandrakumar, (right) Founder and Chairman of Kauvery Hospitals Group. Photo: Special Arrangement Chennai-based Kauvery Hospitals has raised equity funding of $70 million from private equity (PE) fund managed by IIFL Asset Management Limited for a minority stake. The investment holds significance in Kauvery Hospitals’ next phase … Read more

Tube raises Private Equity money in EV subsidiary

Electric Vehicles (EV) continues to attract investors’ attention. Now Tube Investments of India (TII) has announced fund raising in it’s wholly owned subsidiary, TI Clean Mobility Private Limited (TICMPL). TICMPL, a recent initiative of TII, is focused into manufacture and marketing of Electric Three Wheelers and through it’s subsidiaries into Electric Tractors and Electric Heavy … Read more

Private equity major exiting out of Shriram Finance

Apax Partners is rumoured to sell its entire stake in Shriram Finance through block deal in secondary market on January 13, 2023. Apax currently holds 4.63% stake in the Company. This is in lieu of the 16.73% that it held in Shriram City Union Finance (SCUF) as on September 30, 2022. Subsequently, SCUF had merged … Read more

Unicorns become ‘cockroaches’ as tech funding dries up

For years, becoming a unicorn was the main goal of startups. Now, with venture funding drying up and many young firms’ survival in doubt, another creature is the talk of the town: the cockroach.   Venture capitalists and technology chieftains converged in Singapore in recent weeks to hobnob over a number of high-profile annual conferences, … Read more

Blackstone to sell $400 mn stake in REIT Embassy, ADIA eyes investment

Blackstone will sell a stake worth up to $400 million in Embassy Office Parks REIT, the country’s biggest real estate investment trust, via stock exchange block deals, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the world’s largest, is likely to pick up at least half of the … Read more

upGrad raises $210 mn funding, eyes acquisitions in US, Southeast Asia

Ronnie Screwvala-led edtech unicorn upGrad said it has raised a funding of $210 million from marquee investors and Family Offices who join the company cap-table. This round has witnessed participation from ETS Global (world’s largest TOEFL & GRE Test Leader), Bodhi Tree (a JV of James Murdoch & Uday Shankar), Singapore’s Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. … Read more