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Acquisition

Global Recovery sees India Inc Moving Ahead with Acquisition-led Growth Plans

by Viral Dholakia on February 23, 2010

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Would 2010 be the year of Acquisitions ? … Well, it is already turning out to be one as early as the first quarter of calendar year 2010. With the sight of recovery in the global markets after the period of two years of recessionary environment, the Indian corporate world is losing no time in [...]

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Would 2010 be the year of Acquisitions ?

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Twenty Ten seem to have all the right ingredients in place to become the year of Acquisitions – and that too cross-border acquisitions. 2009 was comparatively a lackluster year in terms of M&A activity, understandably so, as the world economy was in doldrums.

2010 has already started with a bang, with news of M&A deals coming [...]

3 comments February 16, 2010 Continue Reading →

Bharti Airtel’s Wild Acquisition Plans Seem To Be Backfiring

by Ankit Agarwal

May be it’s only me, but looks like Bharti Airtel is hell bent on chasing Fool’s Gold. Bharti has been chasing inorganic growth at a maddening pace primarily to expand globally. One of the top most telecom operators in India, Airtel enjoys a huge subscriber base in India and wants to penetrate the international markets [...]

16 comments February 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Mahindra Satyam Turnaround- The Phoenix That Rose From The Ashes Story

by Ankit Agarwal

Satyam Computer Services has probably been the buzzword of the year gone by, albeit for unfortunate reasons. Satyam was one of the top most IT services company and shouldered the industry veterans like Infosys and Wipro. Who would have known what was cooking behind the glamorous walls and the highly profitable balance sheets.

Evidently Satyam was [...]

3 comments February 2, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Deal Radar, Acquisitions , Rate Hike

by Ankit Agarwal

Deal Radar: Finance Sector Seeing Consolidation, Aptech Expanding
The M&A scene has been a little dull off late but there are signs of it picking up albeit slowly.We covered the Bharti-Warid deal earlier which was a a comparatively big ticket deal.However, it is the finance sector that is seeing a lot of consolidation.There is increased M&A [...]

2 comments January 29, 2010 Continue Reading →

Amongst BRIC Nations, India second most targeted country for Mergers & Acquisitions

by Arun Prabhudesai
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After a subdued 2009, the M&A deals seem to be picking up steam in 2010. India had great 2007 and 2008 when it came to Mergers & Acquisitions, however, 2009 recession saw drastic fall in cross border M&A deals. Now according to report published by Dealogic, India has emerged as the second most targeted [...]

0 comments January 20, 2010 Continue Reading →

Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India?

by Sandy
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There is some news about Google being in advanced stages of acquisition talks with Yelp. Many of the Indian users may not be familiar with Yelp or its equivalent CitySearch as such services are not available in India, but mostly confined to US, UK, Canada etc. Yelp is a local business review [...]

3 comments December 18, 2009 Continue Reading →

The Curious Case Of Mahindra Satyam and its liabilities

by Ankit Agarwal
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Oh Boy!! This was always on the cards, wasn’t it. Ever since Mr.Raju confessed cooking books in the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services and the consequent acquisition of Satyam by Tech Mahindra , the unearthed financial liabilities of Satyam were a cause of concern. Infact, the marketplace was divided over the price Tech Mahindra paid given  [...]

6 comments November 17, 2009 Continue Reading →

Bharti-MTN Deal Falls Off Yet Again, MTN Stock Plummets, Bharti Surges

by Arun Prabhudesai
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The deal was being touted as one of the biggest M&A deal in India lest it happened. Well rightly so ! Should the had gone through, it would have catapulted Bharti Airtel to become the third largest telecom services provider spanning 20 countries and 200 million subscribers globally.   But, the talks [...]

0 comments October 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

India Venture Capital & Private Equity Report

by Arun Prabhudesai
Privet Equity VC Funding

If you are a Early Stage Startup, your chances are of getting VC or Private Equity funding is very slim and numbers prove it – Only 9% of all the VC / PE deals have been for early stage companies between 2004 to 2008. This is especially true during the times of recession. Venture Capitalists [...]

28 comments September 26, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: M&A Activity in India, Down but not out

by Arun Prabhudesai
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During the first half of 2009, Indian companies were involved in a total of 136 Mergers & Acquisition deals, down 54% from the same period in 2008, according to a study by Venture Intelligence . The deal activity was also down 28% compared to the second half of 2008. It is [...]

0 comments September 18, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: India News Digest

by Arun Prabhudesai
Finance Friday

Finance Friday is our weekly round up of buzzing stories relating to Finance and Indian Stock market. Cold Response To Tech Mahindra’s QIP, Investor Confidence still shaky Tech Mahindra’s plan to raise capital up to Rs 1,000 crore via a qualified institutional placement (QIP) has not gone down well with [...]

2 comments August 21, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: India News Digest

by Arun Prabhudesai

Finance Friday is our weekly round up of buzzing stories relating to Finance and Indian Stock Market

Inflation dips to minus 1.54% , But Is the Food Getting Cheaper?

Inflation tumbled to (-) 1.54% for the week ended July 18, as compared to (-) 1.17% in the previous week, but food prices continued to rise.

The wholesale-price index based inflation remained negative for the seventh consecutive week. However, it is widely expected to rise in the coming months.

5 comments July 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

It’s Mahindra Satyam now. Do you like it?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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All right, we got some news. Satyam Computers which was taken over by Tech Mahindra has renamed Satyam as Mahindra Satyam. Rebranding is one of the things which was highly recommended to shed the phantom of Raju. Mahindra Satyam is the new company name. To me it doesn’t rhyme. But if it works [...]

9 comments June 22, 2009 Continue Reading →

Corus and Ranbaxy – Acquisitions gone wrong?

by Sriram Vadlamani

These two acquisitions were the cynosure of all eyes in the past years. Is the world looking at these big-ticket acquisitions with the same respect? I doubt it.

Corus to me is the first thing that went wrong for Tata group. It paid a huge amount for acquiring and then you know some thing called a [...]

2 comments May 31, 2009 Continue Reading →
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