India Digest: Samara buys HR firms; PE funds eye Heinz biz; Aurobindo nears Mallinckrodt deal; Shriram Transport, SCUF merger

India Digest: Samara buys HR firms; PE funds eye Heinz biz; Aurobindo nears Mallinckrodt deal; Shriram Transport, SCUF merger

A Heinz Ketchup bottle sits between a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese and a bottle of Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce on a grocery store shelf in New York City, New York, U.S. March 25, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Samara Capital, along with Goldman Sachs and Janchor Partners, has bought stakes in HR and staffing companies Innovsource and V5 Global Services while Blackstone and Carlyle have joined the race to buy the consumer food division of the Kraft Heinz Co. in India. In other updates, Aurobindo Pharma is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Mallinckrodt’s specialty generics business in the US and Shriram Transport Finance Company and Shriram City Union Finance are in early stages of discussion for merger.

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