Blackstone It Isn’t

Linking a big private equity investor with a company is the surest way to create excitement in an outrageous bull market. That is exactly what seems to have happened with Hotel Leela Venture. On 5th November, The Times of India (TOI) reported that Blackstone may pump in a billion dollars to fund Leela’s expansion plan. It quoted the Leela group chairman, Capt. C.P. Nair,...

Private Equity players are smart and have large stakes in these 6 companies. Should you hitch a ride? Analysis by Debashis Basu and Shailendra Lotlikar

They are the big boys of the investing business. They come in with billions of dollars of cash, pick up significant stakes in firms, often work with managements to improve performance and exit at a profit. They are called private equity (PE)...

In 1990, after 70 years of head-to-head competition, Shell finally bested Exxon. It became, for just long enough to
make historians take note, the world’s largest oil company. Much of the credit belonged to one of Shell’s most remarkable units: Group Planning. This was the home of the scenario artists – planners whose pioneering work made
Shell the only big oil company that was not...