Our client was facing difficulty in assessing the true potential of an offshore market An international asset manager was planning to make direct investments in Indian retail-shopping properties. The firm wanted to assess attractiveness of opportunity in the Indian retail sector... Read More.
India’s Investment Confidence Index lowest since its inception in August 2009 Aug 2011: The 8th wave of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management - ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index (ICI) in India has weakened since the last quarter, and the score has... Read More.
For quite some time now financial experts have been predicting that the M&A scenario in India will significantly improve. Investment bankers have already run the ‘India growth’ story ragged and investment banks are again on a hiring spree expecting an... Read More.
July 2011: The Indian growth story is well known to all, yet economic growth in India has not been uniform. Growth has been primarily driven by the services sector leaving glaring gaps for investment in the areas of infrastructure, agriculture... Read More.
Modelling the expected future growth A US based PE fund wanted to evaluate the attractiveness of an Indian IT consulting firm as a potential investment target. They needed a comprehensive study to estimate the market value of the firm over a... Read More.
India has a reputation for its complex policies, despite a professed liberal attitude. The best example of this has been the protectionist clauses espoused by Press Note 18 (of 1998) and Press Note 1 (2005). These press notes are not laws... Read More.
The first quarter of 2011 saw a decline of more than 60% in the number of M&A deals as compared to the earlier quarter (Q4 2010) as high valuations and increasing uncertainty about macroeconomic factors such as fiscal deficit, interest... Read More.
Indian investors turn cautious Apr 2011: The 7th wave of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management - ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index (ICI) in India shows that the Indian financial community’s faith in the Indian economic story could be weakening and they... Read More.
With the recovery in stock markets and overall economy, calendar year 2010 saw investment bankers smiling all the way to the bank as Indian M&A activity increased by nearly 80% over the last year and by more than 100% over... Read More.
The unfolding saga of the fraud by Citibank India employee, Shivraj Puri, is, like all such scams, both sordid and unbelievable. All frauds are sordid, so let's focus on the unbelievable. As expected, investor ire and media attention are being focused... Read More.
