Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board-backed mobile infrastructure company Bharti Infratel will merge its operations with Indus Towers to form a new $15 million entity. Currently, Indus Towers is jointly owned by Bharti Infratel (42%), Vodafone (42%), the Idea group (11.15%) and Providence (4.85%). This merger...
CPPIB to Form JV with India's IndoSpace Realty
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) plans to invest up to $1.2 billion in a joint venture with Mumbai-based IndoSpace, an industrial real estate-focused investment firm jointly owned by private equity investor Everstone Capital and Maryland-based Realterm Global. Key Highlights: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and IndoSpace form IndoSpace Core,...
Infrastructure Investments up 17 Percent in India
According to data from Mumbai, India-based investment bank Equirus Capital, India's infrastructure sector raised a total of $3.49 billion across 33 transactions in Fiscal Year 2017 compared with $2.98 billion raised in 31 transactions in 2016, an increase of over 17 percent. The data also showed that the majority of...
KKR and Canada's CPPIB Acquire Stakes in Bharti Infratel
New Delhi-based telecommunications company Bharti Airtel Limited sold a 10.3% stake in its tower arm subsidiary Bharti Infratel to private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for $951.6 million. Bharti Infratel owns over 90,000 telecom towers and the company reported a revenue...
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...