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PE investments in the April-June quarter drops by 28% to $1.94 billion

03 Jul 2014 Evaluate

On the back of general elections and uncertainties over the new Companies Act, Private equity (PE) investments in the April-June quarter dropped 28% to $1.94 billion across 88 deals as compared to $2.69 billion through 114 transactions in the same period last year. In January-March quarter, private equity firms invested $2.43 billion via 109 deals. There were merely four PE investments worth at-least $100 million in April-June quarter of 2014 compared to eight such transactions in the same period last year. There was a delay in closure on few deals as investors squeezed through bets on 'safe sectors' in the second quarter of 2014 given that national election results were declared only in the last month of the quarter and also on account of new rules imposed by the New Companies Act.

According to a quarterly study by Venture Intelligence, e-commerce, pharma companies attracted dominant share of private equity investments in the second quarter of the Calendar Year (CY) 2014. Among the E-commerce segment, Flipkart's latest round of investments totaling $210 million led by Russia-based DST Global - was the largest PE investment announced during the quarter. Flipkart, which has been attracting new investors from around the world into India regularly over the last couple of years, has now raised $750 million in total.

Meanwhile, the other two largest transactions were in the pharma sector and involved investors who have been operating in India for more than a decade --Temasek and Warburg Pincus. While Temasek paid $170 million to buyout fellow PE investor ChrysCapital from Intas Pharma, Warburg Pincus committed to invest $150 million in Laurus Labs by buying out the stake held by previous investor Fidelity Growth Partners India.

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