New York-based investment firm Brookfield, committed to investing $12 billion in green energy projects in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, in India, over the next three years. This announcement, made at the 2025 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Summit, represents the largest foreign investment in India’s green energy...
Brookfield to Invest Close to $1 Billion in India’s Avaada Group
Canadian investor Brookfield is in advanced discussions to invest up to $1 billion through multiple tranches in Avaada Ventures Pvt Ltd (AVPL), parent entity of Avaada Group. The first tranche of $400 million has been paid out. As programs scale up, the remaining $600 million will be allocated depending on performance-related milestones. Upon completion...
India, a Favored Investment Destination, Say Global Companies
Goldman Sachs, IBM, DHL, Brookfield, Standard Chartered Bank, have informed the Indian government that within the next three years, they will significantly scale up their operations in the country. India's asset monetization programs are drawing interest from several global investors, especially those in REIT and InvITs. A slew of free...
HBR: Why Global Firms Should Continue Investing in India
In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and Ravi Venkatesan, former chairman of Microsoft India and Cummins India, discuss 3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India. Excerpts from the article: India's infrastructure spending is growing "Companies...
Canadian Investments Surge in India
Canadian institutional money is pouring into India. One of our earlier blogs talks about Toronto-based Brookfield acquiring the telecom towers of India's Reliance Communications. The Brookfield-Reliance Infratel transaction worth $1.6 billion is the second-biggest private equity transaction ever in the country. Last October, in one of India's largest deals in...