During the July-September quarter, Indian companies signed as many as 113 private equity deals totalling $2.10 billion, taking the total value of such deals so far in 2013 to %8.13 billion.
The total value of PE deals in the first nine months of 2013 has risen by 34 per cent from $6.05 billion in the same period of 2012, as per a report by Grant Thornton, say media reports.
IT and ITeS dominated the PE deal activity space with 38 per cent share of the total deal pie, followed by banking and financial services segment (18 per cent), real estate (9 per cent) and manufacturing (5 per cent).