<article>Swiss private equity investor <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Partners+Group" target="_blank">Partners Group</a> is looking to invest up to a billion dollars in India in the next three to five years, said its co-chief executive Andre Frei in an interview.</article>

Swiss private equity investor <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Partners+Group" target="_blank">Partners Group</a> is looking to invest up to a billion dollars in India in the next three to five years, said its co-chief executive Andre Frei in an interview.
This would help companies that are looking to raise funding in an economy that has not grown as fast as was expected after a new government came to power in 2014.
The firm has previously invested in Indian PE and venture capital funds for more than a decade, as a limited partner. Since 2012, it has been more open to investing directly in companies, and opened an India office two years later. It has since spent $270 million for a leveraged buyout deal with remote infrastructure management firm <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=CSS+Corp" target="_blank">CSS Corp</a>., and bought a minority stake for an undisclosed amount in <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Eurokids" target="_blank">Eurokids</a>, an education company.
Members of the firm&#8217;s investment committee met in India in late January, the Economic Times reported. The firm has deployed $800 million in private equity, real estate and infrastructure in the country, and plans to make 2-3 investments every year.
That would be an accelerated pace of investment for the group that manages $50 billion in assets but has previously not been as active in India as some of its global peers.
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The firm has previously invested in Indian PE and venture capital funds for more than a decade, as a limited partner.

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