Top Asia-Focused LPs to Reveal PE Report Card for India at VCCircle India Limited Partners Summit 2015

MUMBAI, February 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

VCCircle India Limited Partners Summit 2015, to be held on February 18, 2015, at Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai will be attended by marquee international and domestic limited partners (LPs), leading general partners (GPs), first time fund managers, prominent entrepreneurs and partners from top investment banks, law firms and advisory firms.

At the summit, leading GPs will witness LPs revealing the Indian private equity (PE) report card and share insights on how 2015 can be an exciting investment vintage. The summit focusing on 'Invest in India' theme would bring out LPs' views on mistakes made by GPs during the go-go days of 2006-07 and discussions around the current state of LP-GP partnerships in India, fees, structure, co-investment rights, risk-return fundamentals, scrutiny revolving around exits, proven fundraising models and much more.

The summit will also feature Rohinton Soli 'Ronnie' Screwvala - Founder, Unilazer Ventures. He is one of the pioneers of Indian media and entertainment sector. In 1990, he founded UTV Group which later got spun off into several companies in the media and entertainment business such as UTV Software Communications, Bloomberg UTV and UTV Motion Pictures.

In his address, Screwvala will share his thoughts on the current entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country, how entrepreneurs can make most of the opportunity India offers, and what it takes to create long-standing businesses ground up in India.

Other eminent speakers includes: Akhil Awasthi - Managing Partner, Tata Capital Growth Fund, Amit Bhatiani - Partner, CX Partners, Amit Chandra - MD, Bain Capital Private Equity, Amit Thawani - ED, Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India) Private Limited, Anand Prasanna - Director, Private Assets (Shanghai), Morgan Creek, Brooks Preston -VP - Investment Funds, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Deepak Shahdadpuri - Founder and MD, DSG Partners Asia Pte Ltd, Gautam Mehra - Partner and Leader - Financial Services, Tax and Asset Management, PwC, Gopal Srinivasan - CMD, TVS Capital Funds Limited, Jaganath Swamy - VP, Harbourvest Partners (Asia) Limited, Jane Rowe - Head Private Equity, Senior VP, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Manish Kejriwal - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP, M.K. Sinha - Managing Partner and CEO, IDFC Alternatives, Neelkanth Mishra - India Strategist, Credit Suisse, Nupur Garg - Regional Lead - Private Equity Funds, IFC, Padmanabh Sinha - Managing Partner, Tata Capital, Parth Gandhi - Senior Partner and MD, AION Capital, Promeet Ghosh - MD, Temasek Holdings Advisors India Pvt. Ltd., Rahul Bhasin - Managing Partner, Baring Private Equity Partners (India) Pvt. Ltd., Ronnie Screwvala - Founder, Unilazer Ventures, Sanjay Kukreja - MD, ChrysCapital Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Sanjeev Dasgupta - CEO, Ascendas Property Fund Trustee, Sasha Mirchandani - Founder and Managing Partner, Kae Capital, Satya Bansal - CEO, Barclays Wealth and Investment Management - India, Shashank Singh - Partner, Apax Partners India Advisers Private Limited, Shankar Narayanan - MD, The Carlyle Group, Sohil Chand - MD, Norwest Venture Partners, Srini Nagarajan - Head of South Asia, CDC Group, Sudhir Sethi -Founder, Chairman and MD, IDG Ventures India Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Vish Narain - Country Head, TPG Growth, Viswanathan Parameswar - ED, Adveq Management.

The day-long conference will present a host of diversified panel discussions and insightful views on several topics around Indian private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurship.

- Investing in the 'New India' paradigm India - the land of rising billionaires and the local investor capital driven risk capital industry

- View from the top: LPs reveal Indian PE report card and will 2015 be an exciting investment vintage?

- VCCircle Insights: Quick insightful discussions on themes covering the Indian investing landscape

• Infrastructure and real estate
• From dotcom bust to venture capital boom
• Private equity in public equities
• Big deals are back - where are we headed?

Visit events.vccircle.com to learn on what we have covered in the agenda.

The summit will bring together carefully managed balance of participants like India and Asia-focused LPs and the country's most promising general partners (GPs), first-time fund managers, corporate leaders, economists and senior-level attendees from the private equity and policy making world.

The event will conclude with the unveiling of the 4th edition of VCCircle Awards and dinner.

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