TMT, financial services, infrastructure seeing most amount of deal activity: JPMorgan's Kaustubh Kulkarni

Talking about the private equity investors, Kulkarni said, “Enormous maturity and understanding need to be there whenever you are dealing with private equity investor as a company. So fundamentally if there is a concern or apprehension on the trust deficit, it is very hard to get private equity capital in those companies today. Private equity also has meaningfully changed their expectations or rather some private equity investors have meaningfully changed their expectations and they only want to focus on the larger transactions where there is a clear control or path to control available and then they will spend their time and bandwidth in evaluating those situations. So it is good because where companies are looking to find that kind of solutions, there is a clear set of private equity investors who will spend all of their time and ultimately find the solution."

“On the M&A side, I would say TMT (technology, media and telecom) as a sector will remain substantially active. Financial services and many other subparts of financial services which include banks, insurance, asset management, health insurance all of those are very relevant and active for both companies as well as for investors,” he said.