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Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital "If we were to shut down the Mauritius route (for investments), there is a real danger that we will destroy Private Equity in the country. And it's not just PE; the recent tax claims against MNCs like Shell, Microsoft and Nokia pose a much bigger question on overall FDI. What does it take for a company like Walmart with over $450 billion in sales to write off India for the next 10 years? I would say not a lot. But can we as a country - with our deficits running so high - afford it? We are playing with fire here. "   For the more detailed APEX'13 Summit Highlights, Click Here For the more detailed APEX'13 Awards Highlights, Click Here Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on private equity, venture capital and M&A transactions in India as well as Financials & Valuations of Private Companies in...

Leading India-focused Private Equity firm ChrysCapital - two time winners of the "Best Private Equity Firm of Year" award at the Venture Intelligence APEX Awards - has announced that its founder Ashish Dhawan, will transition out of the firm in mid 2012 to pursue work on social issues. Also, Brahmal Vasudevan, one of the firm's managing directors who has been at the firm since 2000, will be leaving ChrysCapital later this year. Going forward, the ChrysCapital team will be led by the remaining six managing directors – Ashley Menezes, Gulpreet Kohli, Kunal Shroff, Ravi Bahl, Sanjay Kukreja and Sanjiv Kaul. Ashish Dhawan of ChrysCapital receiving the Best Private Equity Firm-2009 Award from Ajay Piramal of the Piramal Group Excerpts from the ChrysCapial Press Release: ChrysCapital prepares itself for management transition to a collective leadership based on equal partnership ChrysCapital Investment Advisors, one of India’s leading investment advisors, is preparing itself fo...