Private Equity (PE) firms are working at full throttle. Be it fund raising, fresh investment, exits or secondary transactions all seems to be heating up now like never before. As per the latest available data, there has seen 350 PE transactions worth $12.69 billion which is higher than previous annual record of $10.88 billion in 2008 with 195 transactions.
While on the basis of the counts every deal in a year it counts deal value of only those who disclose it. So their data vary from others who count estimated values for the deals where transaction amount is not disclosed.
Limited Partners are keen to invest large funds to finance the growth in India which is now visible through its leading indicators, and that has helped in private equity deals rising this year.
The PE deals spurt is also because Indian e-commerce has found backers from among big global Venture Capitalists.
