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  • Private equity piles into AI-led digital engineering, pushing average tech M&A deals past $200 million: Avendus

    Global digital engineering services are set to grow at a 22% CAGR and expected to cross $550 billion by 2030 with the AI layer alone adding around $275 billion, says Avendus report

  • Federal Bank sees 50 bps CRAR boost from Blackstone tranche: MD & CEO KVS Manian

    Responding to another query by Moneycontrol on the market speculation around Federal Bank being among the bidders for select Deutsche Bank India retail and wealth portfolios, Manian said it continues to evaluate inorganic opportunities but has no immediate transactions under consideration

  • L Catterton's India Partner Anjana Sasidharan to quit, start her own fund

    Sasidharan is moving on from L Catterton to start an early-stage consumer-focused venture capital fund, joining a growing list of fund managers who are choosing to become solo GPs

  • Blackstone’s Horizon Industrial Parks raises $200 mn in pre-IPO round from SBI, RK Damani, others

    Horizon is expected to file its DRHP today with market regulator SEBI to raise around $300 million, sources said. 

  • Blackstone-owned PGP Glass in talks with lenders to roll-over $300-mn offshore loans

    The external commercial borrowings are due in March 2026.

  • Outbound M&A push to continue into 2026, driven by balance sheet strength, mid-market deals

    The sustained outlook for 2026 builds on the pickup in outbound M&A activity by Indian companies in 2025, as corporates increasingly turned to overseas acquisitions to accelerate strategic transformation rather than incremental expansion.

  • Quest for alpha driving capital from public markets to private assets: JM Financial Private Wealth CEO Anuj Kapoor

    'We have been advising clients to diversify their portfolios by investing abroad for the last few years. This becomes increasingly relevant in the current scenario of Indian rupee devaluation,' Kapoor tells Moneycontrol

  • ChrysCapital in talks to invest $100 mn in industrial safety gear maker Karam

    In fiscal year 2025, Karam reported revenues of over Rs 1,062.2 crore and a profit of Rs 87.1 crore, as per a November 21 report by credit rating agency Crisil. 

  • Scarcity of quality healthcare assets, not private equity capital, driving valuations: Quadria Capital

    The firm remains bullish on single-specialty platforms, medical devices, digital health, and consumer healthcare, expecting India to absorb a significant share of its billion-dollar fund

  • Rupee’s slide past 90 may complicate PE exits, tighten return thresholds for global investors

    A moderate level of rupee depreciation is typically factored into PE return models, but this year’s nearly 5% slide is much steeper and faster than expected.

  • Brookfield REIT picks investment banks for Rs 3,500-cr QIP

    Brookfield REIT shareholders will vote on the acquisition and the share sale on November 28 at the company’s extraordinary general meeting.

  • Sebi chief not worried about IPOs turning into exit routes for PEs: 'Investors take early-stage risk'

    Tuhin Kanta Pandet said SEBI is working on new reforms to introduce 'concise summary' of all the required information for 'easier comprehension'

  • Chart of the Day | Is OFS exodus a warning sign?

    In the first eleven months of 2025, OFS accounted for nearly 65 percent of all IPO proceeds by value

  • ChrysCapital closes record $2.2 bn fund; largest PE fund ever raised by an India-focused firm

    The latest fund marks a more than 60 per cent jump from ChrysCapital's $1.35 billion Fund IX in 2022

  • Private equity firms may list in India as IPO market expands: KKR Global Co-CEO Scott Nuttall

    "It really does feel like our type of capital is welcome here and private capital naturally wants to go where it’s welcomed," the top private equity executive said alluding to the investment friendly regime under the Indian government.

  • Why the Pentagon is asking private equity giants like Apollo and KKR to help rebuild the US army

    Facing a massive funding gap, the army is courting private investors for “meaty projects” — from data centres to rare earth facilities — marking an unprecedented link between national security and private capital.

  • Investcorp's new Rs 5,000 crore PE fund to target mid-market buyouts, says India head Gaurav Sharma

    The fund, backed by both domestic and global investors, will target building a portfolio of 10–11 companies across healthcare, business services, consumer, and financial sectors, Investcorp India investment business head Gaurav Sharma tells Moneycontrol

  • Non-lending businesses like private equity and wealth are accretive to Tata Capital: Rajiv Sabharwal

    As at June 30, 2025, Tata Capital has raised around Rs 7,000 crore across its domestic funds and offshore funds, with 53 deals in over 15 years, as per the NBFCs IPO documents.

  • 'Promoter' tags make a comeback as startup founders look to rewrite IPO playbook

  • InvAscent-backed Malladi Drugs planning Rs 1,200-crore IPO, holds talks with banks

    Malladi Drugs raised Rs 250 crore from healthcare and pharma focused private equity fund InvAscent. The PE fund holds around 22-23% stake in the company

  • Avendus Future Leaders Fund leads Rs 300-cr investment in Aragen Life Sciences

    This marks FLF III’s second investment, the first being its investment in La Renon Healthcare earlier this year.

  • ChrysCapital buys 85% stake in Theobroma, targets expansion in eastern India

    The transaction signals the first buyout in the consumer sector for the private equity firm.

  • ICICI Venture exits Epack Durable, sells shares in open market

    ICICI Venture sold 36.38 lakh shares of Epack Durable, a shareholding of 3.79 percent, through open market trades between March 24 and July 31

  • A91 Partners to invest Rs 175 crore in Coimbatore-based Shree Anandhaas Sweets as PE interest in space picks up

    A91 Partners’ investment into Shree Anandhaas comes after Motilal Oswal (MO Alts) invested in Lal Sweets as investors bet on a large unorganised industry, and family-owned businesses, in India becoming more organised as an increasing number of consumers alter their purchasing patterns.

  • Flipkart’s VP Smrithi Ravichandran set to join PE firm Multiples 

    Ravichandran will take up an investing role at the PE firm and oversee funding activity, source deals and double down on existing portfolio companies across sectors in her new role, sources told Moneycontrol.

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