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Tuesday, August 09, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Interviews
| Tags: business,
finance,
Grant Thornton,
insight,
due diligence,
interview,
corporate finance,
staff,
private equity,
people,
IPO,
Meet our experts,
profile,
Q&A,
Mo Merali,
transactions
As our Head of Private Equity, Mo Merali has led teams on all aspects of Transaction Advisory Services work, including a number of multi-million-pound cross-border assignments. Here we ask him about his toughest deals, pivotal career moments and what companies should be focusing on right now.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
governance,
India Watch,
growth,
UK,
infrastructure,
GDP,
Capital Markets,
economic,
Alex Wright,
Indian Economy,
inflation,
IT
Over the first quarter of 2011, the World’s economies witnessed a number of significant set-backs in their growth stories. The recent natural disasters suffered by Japan and New Zealand, coupled with the on-going political turmoil in the Middle-East, have created an unsettled start to the year.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
India,
investment,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
India Watch,
growth,
UK,
Grant Thornton India,
deals,
international,
economic,
Indian Economy,
sectors,
IT,
India Economy
During the first quarter of 2011, India witnessed 143 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions compared to 188 in the corresponding quarter of 2010. M&A transaction values for the period were estimated at US$17.88bn (Q1 2010 equaled US$17.44bn).
In Q1 2011, there was 60 cross-border transactions of which 26 were inbound transactions (into India) with a total value of US$13.75bn. Whereas, in comparison to Q1 2010 there were 69 cross-border transactions of which 23 were inbound with a value of US$1.12 bn.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
investment,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
governance,
India Watch,
growth,
UK,
infrastructure,
Grant Thornton India,
South Asia Group,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
inflation,
IT
The Union Budget 2010-11 was tabled in the backdrop of an improving economic scenario both within India and globally, but fiscal consolidation and expenditure discipline have still been rightly treated as the foremost priorities in this budget.
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| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
India,
investment,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
India Watch,
growth,
LSE,
UK,
infrastructure,
Grant Thornton India,
South Asia Group,
aim,
South Asia,
Fiona Owen,
Capital Markets,
FTSE,
IT,
India Economy
For the first quarter of 2011, the Grant Thornton India Watch Index* made a 1.19% gain, which proved to be the only index to perform positively in the quarter in comparison to the FTSE100, FTSE ASEAN, FTSE AIM All-Share, FTSE AIM 100 and FTSE AIM UK 50.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
India
| Tags: business,
India,
investment,
finance,
statistics,
M&A,
deals,
IBR,
South Asia,
mergers and acquisitions,
acquisition,
Tata,
Jaguar Land Rover
M&A statistics are showing a sharp increase in Indian takeovers in the UK last year, with Indian companies announcing 24 M&A deals targeting UK assets valued at £571 million.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
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| Tags: India,
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economy,
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India Watch,
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UK,
risk,
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aim,
international,
GDP,
Capital Markets,
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Alex Wright,
FTSE,
sectors,
India Economy
As we say farewell to 2010, we can take this opportunity to reflect upon the economic environment in India over the past year and also the opportunity to focus on some of the key areas of economic importance for the year ahead.
The first half of 2010 saw significant year on year growth, with GDP ranging between 8.5% and 8.8%. The year, however, was not without its problems, as highlighted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), economic activity in both the manufacturing and service sectors in India slowed in the 3rd quarter of the year while infrastructural development and investment continued to cause concern, along with India’s ‘old friend’ inflation.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 10
| Tags: India,
finance,
economy,
performance,
India Watch,
LSE,
AIM,
South Asia,
stockmarket
In the quarter ended 30 September 2010, Grant Thornton’s India Watch Index underperformed other UK indices. This underperformance was due mainly to the heavyweight stocks Essar Energy and Vedanta Resources which were a drag on the Index’s overall performance. However, the majority of Indian AIM companies actually outperformed the main UK indices over the quarter and the pipeline of Indian IPOs on AIM continues to look strong.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 10
| Tags: business,
India,
investment,
finance,
economy,
India Watch,
growth,
infrastructure,
GDP,
South Asia,
Alex Wright,
inflation
Over the last quarter, India’s economy has continued to grow at a significant rate. Nevertheless, doubts still remain as to the extent to which India’s level of growth can be maintained. The prohibitive combination of considerable inflation rates and years of underinvestment in the country’s infrastructure continues to prove an obstacle to growth.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 10
| Tags: India,
finance,
economy,
governance,
India Watch,
risk,
South Asia,
IFRS,
stockmarket,
IPO market,
IPO,
London listing,
Hemal Shah,
GAAP
After a sustained period of Indian IPO activity in London in 2007 and 2008, predictably 2009 and 2010 have seen a significant reduction in new admissions. As sentiment picks up with the global economic recovery, we are seeing positive signs that India Inc. is once again ready to seek IPO opportunities in London with i-Energizer and SKIL Ports & Logistics having successfully completed admissions to AIM in September and October 2010 respectively.
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