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India's Premier Investor/Entrepreneur Interface Raj Kondur of Ascent Capital speaking as part of the Inaugural Panel: "Private Equity: The Road Ahead" Raj Kondur, Director, Ascent Capital, said that his firm looks forward to deploying $150 million in the next 18 months. Ascent is looking to invest in both companies that serve the Indian market as well as companies as that leverage India's strength to service the global market. While the long term India story remains powerful, we cannot take it for granted, Kondur said. In response to a question, Kondur said one of the key concerns of international investors in Indian PE/VC firms is the poor level of governance in the country. The inaugural panel was followed by special panel discussions on the following sectors: Cleantech, Logistics and Real Estate. Manish Saigal of KPMG speaking as part of the Logistics & Transportation Panel Manish Saigal, Partner, KPMG, pointed out that over the last two years, those businesses...

Among corporate law firms, AZB & Partners topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables as the Most Active Legal Advisor (for both Private Equity and M&A transactions) in 2010. Behram Vakil of AZB & Partners receiving the Most Active Legal Advisor - 2010 Award Mayank Rastogi of Ernst & Young receiving the Most Active Transaction Advisor - 2010 Award The Venture Intelligence APEX Awards are the first awards of its kind for Private Equity & Venture Capital funds in India as well as related advisory firms. The Most Active Advisor Awards are awarded to the toppers of the Venture Intelligence League Tables for the corresponding year. The League Tables ( http://www.ventureintelligence.in/league.htm ) are based on the volume of PE and M&A transactions advised by the Transaction Advisory and Legal Advisory firms during the calendar year. To view more pictures from APEX'11 Awards, Click Here To view videos of the PE/VC Awards, Click Here A more detailed Event Summar...

Satish Mandhana of IDFC PE receiving the Best PE Investor - 2010 Award from Mr. Gurcharan Das The latest award represents the second time that IDFC PE is receiving the APEX Awards, having earlier won the awards for 2006. Accepting the "Best Private Equity Investor-2010" Award on behalf of IDFC PE, Satish Mandhana, Managing Partner, said "At the time we had received this award in early 2007, IDFC was unique in terms of being a specialized infrastructure sector investor. The latest award, which is in the general PE category, is very satisfying in that it not only recognises our positioning of being a PE player in infra sector but also validates that returns in this sector can compare quite favorably across the PE asset class." Seedfund Team Members receiving the Best Early Stage Investor - 2010 Award Receiving the "Best Early Stage Investor-2010" Award, Pravin Gandhi, Partner, Seedfund said, "We are very pleased to receive this award. The performance of...

Speech by Chief Guest Gurcharan Das Describing himself as a cheer leader of the PE industry, noted author and former-CEO of P&G India Gurcharan Das said he probably learnt more from his association with PE industry than from any other business segment. Borrowing an analogy from Professor David Birch of MIT, Das classified companies into "elephants, mice and gazelles". Gazelles start small and grow extremely rapidly through innovation. More often than not, they create huge new industries on their way to success, he said. High Power PE/VC Panel chaired by Paresh Vaish, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal India, featuring Vinod Dham, Managing Director, IndoUS Ventures ; A.K.Purwar, Chairman, IndiaVenture and P.R. Srinivasan, Managing Director, Exponentia Capital To view more pictures from APEX'11 Awards, Click Here To view videos of the PE/VC Panel and the speech by Gurcharan Das, Click Here A more detailed Event Summary is available at http://ventureintelligen...

Edited Extracts from Press Release: Standard Chartered Private Equity (“SCPE”) has invested Rs. 460 million in Innoventive Industries Limited,(“Company”) a multi-product engineering company based in Pune, India. The investment includes a primary infusion of Rs. 304 Million into the Company as part of the Pre-IPO investment. This funding will part finance the expansion of the Company’s existing precision steel tube manufacturing facilities at Pune. With this investment, SCPE’s equity stake in Innoventive Industries Limited will be 10.14 percent. Innoventive is a multi-product engineering company focused on precision steel tubes and value added steel products (including boiler steel strips) and oil well couplings (through its subsidiary). The Company’s product range find application in diverse industrial sectors including transportation, oil & gas, power, farm equipments and general engineering. Rahul Raisurana, Managing Director, Standard Chartered Private Equity, said, "We are...

PE/VC-backed companies fare better in terms of growth in sales, profitability, wages, exports and R&D investments, a study by Venture Intelligence shows. According to a new study by Venture Intelligence, a leading research firm focussed on Private Equity and M&A activity in India, PE- and VC-backed companies are growing significantly faster compared to their non Private Equity-backed peers as well as market indices like the Sensex, Nifty and CNX Midcap. The Venture Intelligence Private Equity Impact report also shows that profitability, wages, exports and R&D investments at PE/VC-backed companies are growing at a significantly higher rate compared to their peers which are not PE-backed.  Sales at publicly-listed PE-backed companies demonstrated a CAGR of 25% over the ten year period 2000-2010, a significantly higher rate compared to the 15.1% at non PE-backed listed firms, 17.9% at Nifty Index companies. 19.2% at Sensex companies and 15.3% at CNX Midcap companies.  PE-bac...