Ranjani Raghavan
Finance
Mauritian regulator takes over bank set up by BanyanTree PE founder
Mauritius-based BanyanTree Bank Ltd, which was set up by India-based private equity firm BanyanTree Finance’s founder Sanjiv Singhal, has been ......
TMT
Carlyle to flip over Indian med-tech firm as part of global platform deal
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group’s Asia Growth Fund is selling its majority stake in a medical technology company ......
Infrastructure
Pension funds to get tax benefit for India infra investments
The Indian government has decided to offer tax benefits to global pension funds on their investments in the infrastructure sector ......
Finance
Coronavirus: Why investment bankers say this crisis is different, and worse
Typically, it is hard to catch a merchant banker over the phone during the day – especially on a Monday. ......
Finance
Law firms brace for chaos as coronavirus rattles businesses, dealmaking
India’s top law firms are devising multiple legal avenues that can possibly help companies manage the widespread disruption to business ......
Consumer
Coronavirus: Which PE portfolio firms are in the line of direct fire?
Private equity firms can expect some of their portfolio companies in travel, food, hospitality and entertainment to take a hit ......
Finance
PE firms flag slowing growth as biggest risk in 2020: VCCircle survey
Private equity fund managers have identified slowing growth as the biggest risk factor for investments in India this year and ......
Finance
How are PE firms managing risk in light of frequent black swan events?
Blackstone chairman Stephen Schwarzman has often explained how the private equity firm’s failed 1986 investment in Edgcomb Steel helped it ......
Finance
What Blackstone CEO Schwarzman's early struggles can teach first-time fund managers
When Stephen Schwarzman was raising capital for his first fund at private equity firm Blackstone in the mid-1980s, he was ......
Infrastructure
UK-India green fund in talks to rope in Dutch, British firms as limited partners
The Green Growth Equity Fund, anchored by the governments of India and the United Kingdom, is in talks with a ......