The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had invited proposals for developing an Information Technology (IT) Park near the township of Panchkula in northern India. Sreeni Iyer, a partner at AMII Advisors, was considering a bid for this project in partnership with LIRA Developers, a public company. The fact that the Haryana state government had initiated this project suggested that regulatory approvals would not be a hurdle. However, the exit price and exit options needed to be carefully assessed by Iyer and his team.

This case is written from the perspective of a decision-maker at a private equity investment fund. The case is set in India, where a large corpus of capital sourced from the United States was deployed from the early 2000s onwards. It looks at the manner in which a private equity real estate fund evaluates the implications of RERA in India, in particular, the continuation vs. exit decision when a project encounters obstacles that delay its completion.

In December 2010, Shridhar Sethuram was evaluating an investment in a joint development of residential flats in Gachibowli, an information and technology (IT) hub near the city of Hyderabad in central India. Sethuram and his team at AMII Advisors, a private equity (PE) investment firm, had recently raised US$170 million with a mandate to invest the funds in the real estate market in India. Sethuram, on behalf of his investment firm, had to decide whether to invest in the Gachibowli project and how to structure the investment deal. This case is written from the perspective of a decision maker at a private equity investment fund. It provides a look at the manner in which a private equity real estate fund evaluates an opportunity and structures a real estate investment in a developing country. The case is set in India, where a large corpus of capital sourced from the US has been deployed since the early 2000s.