At $15.2 Billion, 2016 is 2nd Biggest Year for PE investments after 2015, Venture Intelligence data shows Private Equity investors bet $15.2 Billion across 620 deals (and 585 individual companies) in 2016 making it the second biggest year for such investments in India (by both value and volume) after 2015 (which had witnessed $17.3 Billion being invested across 775 transactions and 683 companies). These figures from Venture Intelligence, India’s longest serving research service focused on private company financials, transactions and valuations, include Venture Capital investments, but exclude PE investments in Real Estate. Infrastructure investments - notably led by Canada headquartered investors - dominated the list of Big Ticket investments during 2016. Canada’s Brookfield committed $1.65 Billion to buy a majority stake in telecom tower firm Reliance Infratel; pension fund CDPQ along with others invested $850 million in Tata Power’s SPV Resurgent Power; while Fair