{"id":6627,"date":"2018-02-24T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2018-02-24T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:40:58","slug":"private-equity-investors-bring-in-deals-worth-983-mn-in-january-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/24\/private-equity-investors-bring-in-deals-worth-983-mn-in-january-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Private equity investors bring in deals worth $983 mn in January: Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3481\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 176px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Private-Equity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3481\" src=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Private-Equity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Private-Equity.jpg 176w, https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Private-Equity-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>January was dominated by investments in start-ups which contributed to 52% of total investment volumes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Private equity (PE) investors announced deals worth $983 million in January, a 23 per cent rise in value terms over last year, driven by big ticket transactions, says a Grant Thornton report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the assurance, tax and advisory firm, in January, there were 84 PE deals worth $983 million, against 81 such transactions worth $796 million in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Private equity deals recorded 4 per cent increase in deal volumes and 23 per cent increase in deal value in January 2018 as compared to January 2017,&#8221; said Pankaj Chopda Director at Grant Thornton India LLP.<\/p>\n<p>January was dominated by investments in start-ups which contributed to 52 per cent of total investment volumes. On the other hand, energy &amp; natural resources and real estate sectors witnessed big-ticket PE investment over $100 million together capturing 39 per cent of total PE deal values.<\/p>\n<p>Altico Capital&#8217;s investment of $195 million across five realty projects in Hyderabad and Pune was the top PE deal in January.<\/p>\n<p>Other major transactions include Canada Pension Plan Investment Board&#8217;s 6 per cent stake acquisition in ReNew Power Ventures for $144 million and Warburg Pincus and SAIF Partners&#8217; $50 million investment in Rivigo Services.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the PE deal outlook looks bullish especially for the start-up sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Increasing customer penetration in online transactions and increasing solutions to simplify online transactions offered by start-ups will attract interest in start-ups engaged in retail, fintech, foodtech, on demand services and travel and logistics,&#8221; Chopda said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government reforms such as RERA, focus on cleantech and on increasing digital financial transactions will drive the momentum in banking and financial, real estate and energy and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>India-specific strategies by global and already present PE firms and funds raised by new players will act as catalyst for PE transactions,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/specials\/private-equity-investors-bring-in-deals-worth-983-mn-in-january-thornton-118022300613_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity (PE) investors announced deals worth $983 million in January, a 23 per cent rise in value terms over last year, driven by big ticket transactions, says a Grant Thornton report. According to the assurance, tax and advisory firm, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/24\/private-equity-investors-bring-in-deals-worth-983-mn-in-january-thornton\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,497,493,5],"tags":[343,298,305,304,340,414,464,302,294,523,299,521,301,790],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-business-advisory-services","category-financial-corporate-services","category-cross-border-transactions-mas-joint-ventures","category-economy-business-updates-corporate-affairs","category-india-international-corporate-updates","tag-e-commerce","tag-ease-of-doing-business","tag-economy","tag-foreign-direct-investment","tag-global","tag-grant-thornton","tag-hyderabad","tag-international","tag-investment","tag-online","tag-private-equity","tag-start-up-india","tag-start-ups","tag-warburg-pincus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}