Ranjani Raghavan

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Finance

07 April, 2020

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 ......

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TMT

01 April, 2020

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 ......

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Infrastructure

25 March, 2020

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 ......

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Finance

23 March, 2020

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. ......

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Finance

23 March, 2020

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 ......

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Consumer

16 March, 2020

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 ......

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Finance

13 March, 2020

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 ......

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Finance

12 March, 2020

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 ......

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Finance

09 March, 2020

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 ......

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Infrastructure

04 March, 2020

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 ......