US-based private equity (PE) firm General Atlantic has acquired a majority stake in Ujala Cygnus, a hospital chain in northern India with a network of 21 hospitals across tier II and tier III cities. The financial...
Warburg Pincus frontrunner to buy Shriram Housing Finance
Warburg Pincus is closing in on Shriram Housing Finance Ltd (SHFL), having emerged as the frontrunner to acquire the unit of Chennai-based non-banking finance company (NBFC) Shriram Finance, said people in the know. In...
Al Gore firm, CapitaLand eye Radiance acquisition
Former US vice-president Al Gore-headed Generation Investment Management’s Just Climate LLP, and Singapore’s CapitaLand Investment Ltd are among entities exploring an acquisition of Radiance Renewables Pvt. Ltd, two...
Varun Beverages completes acquisition of South African bottler BevCo
Varun Beverages Ltd, PepsiCo’s largest franchise bottler, on Wednesday said it has completed the acquisition of South Africa-based Beverage Company (BevCo) along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The acquisition...
Quadria Capital backed HealthQuad exits AINU
HealthQuad, a healthcare-focused venture capital fund backed by Quadria Capital, has exited from the Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), India’s largest single-specialty hospital network dedicated to...
Standard Chartered set to exit CDSL with 7.18% stake sale
Standard Chartered Bank is set to exit its investment in Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (CDSL) by selling its entire stake through a block deal. The bank will offload 7.5 million shares, representing a 7.18%...
Beige to offload 2.9% stake in Mankind Pharma through block deals
Beige Ltd., an affiliate of ChrysCapital, is looking to sell a portion of its stake in Mankind Pharma Ltd. through block deals. As per a term sheet reviewed by Mint, Beige Ltd. is offering to sell up to 11.63 million...
PE firm Olympus to sell up to $235 mln stake in India’s Aster DM, term sheet shows
Private equity firm Olympus Capital Asia plans to sell a 9.8% stake in India’s Aster DM Healthcare for up to 19.53 billion rupees (nearly $235 million), according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Tuesday...
Tech Mahindra to merge US-based subsidy Born Group with parent Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc
Tech Mahindra, India’s one of leading IT services and consultation firms, has said that the company will be merging its wholly-owned step down subsidiary Born Group with its parent company Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc...
Samara Capital eyeing 50% in Del Monte Foods as well as a minority stake in Godrej Tyson Foods
PE firm Samara Capital is in talks to acquire 50% in pasta and sauces maker Del Monte Foods from Bharti Enterprises as well as a minority stake in Yummiez frozen foods maker Godrej Tyson Foods, executives aware of the...
Planetcast acquires Australia’s Switch Media
Apollo Global Management-backed Indian media tech company Planetcast Media Services has acquired Australia’s Switch Media, a white-label OTT platform provider in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the US. As per the...
Aster DM in final stage of Gulf business sale
Aster DM Healthcare on Wednesday said that the separation of its Indian and Gulf (GCC) businesses, and the proposed investment in its GCC business by an investor group led by UAE-based PE firm Fajr Capital, is in the...