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General
Grapevine: General Atlantic mulls Rubicon IPO; Airtel Eyes Vodafone's Indus Stake
Private equity firm General Atlantic is in talks with investment banks for an initial public offering (IPO) of its majority-owned portfolio company, ......
General
Grapevine: ITC eyes Prataap Snacks; GIC, KKR join race for Carlyle's stake in Airtel's data centre
ITC is reportedly considering acquisition of a 47% stake held by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital) in Prataap Snacks, ......
Consumer
Deals Digest: Companies raise $2.75 bn this week; DealShare, Darwinbox turn unicorns
Companies raised $2.75 billion in venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funding this week, helped by two massive investments ......
Finance
Infrastructure pumps up M&A value in post-pandemic quarter
The pandemic has been plotting a comeback in April. The January-March period, by contrast, was seen as a post-pandemic quarter ......
TMT
Marquee PE firm in talks to buy controlling stake in internet service provider ACT
A global private equity firm is in control-deal talks with Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd (ACT), India’s largest non-telco internet service ......
Finance
India Inc's legal costs soar most in four years; Reliance regains top rank
India Inc’s legal expenses grew at the fastest pace in at least four years for the 12 months to March-end ......
Infrastructure
Temasek takes haircut as it trims stake in second bet on infra firm
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings appears to have taken another haircut on its investment in an Indian infrastructure company. The state-owned private-equity style ......
Finance
What do early birds' Q4 results tell us about the state of India Inc?
Large Indian companies recorded poor sales growth despite the base effect of business disruption a year ago but smaller firms ......
Infrastructure
M&A of the month: Bharti Infratel-Indus deal dials in a telecom tower giant
The merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Tower, which created a behemoth with over 163,000 towers operating across all 22 ......
TMT
M&A of the month: Singtel dials Bharti Telecom yet again in strategic bet
India saw little action in terms of corporate mergers and acquisitions in February with the total number of buyout transactions ......