Growing appetite for buyout, control deals in India: Vivek Kathpalia, Nishith Desai

While there is a growing interest from private equity (PE) players in the K-12 assets space, the regulatory environment in the country has to change before private investors can take the plunge into the country’s education space, Vivek Kathpalia, head of Singapore and Far East, Nishith Desai Associates, said in an interaction. “PE also requires a deep market with quality assets. That is currently missing in the education space. Hopefully along with regulatory reform the market will also deepen,” he said. Kathpalia also added that private equity’s growing interest in the education space, which is heavily regulated and high risk, was a sign of the bullishness which would apply across sectors.