In June 2011, investments by Indian companies in overseas markets made over US$5 billion, of them US$3.9 are in the form of guaranteed issues. More than US$600 million are in equities, and US$900 million is in the form of debt. Most of investments are in wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures.

To name the leaders, the major investor in the overseas companies was Mundra Port with US$2.2-billion investment as credit guarantee in Australia; the second one was Biocon with US$350-million investment in its Malaysian subsidiary, followed by Sun Pharma with US$300-million investment in the British Virgin Islands.

Actually, 60% of equity investments by Indian companies come to Mauritius. The British Virgin Islands and other offshore tax havens are used by companies to save on tax in the United States.

This is the second ASM’s branch in India, the first one was opened in Goa in 2006. In December 2010, Aviation Services management and Abu Dhabi-based international luxury flight services company Royal Jet formed a joint venture to target the Indian market. Currently, the BVI company provides charter sales and marketing in India for Royal Jet, and Royal Jet operates six Boeing Business Jets as well as Gulfstream G300 and GIV, Embraer Lineage 1000 and Learjet 60 aircraft.

ASM is also looking into many other areas to improve its service to the clients, such as logistics and operations support. Company’s expansion in India anticipates further growth in the business aviation sector. According to ASM, country’s corporate jet fleet currently stands at 450 (136 of them being registered in India), and is projected to rise to 1,200 aircraft by 2020.

The BVI company, founded in 1998, specializes in flight support services, operations consultancy, charter brokerage, aircraft management, flight planning and government and regulatory compliance. Almost half of its business is reselling fuel.

ASM reported US$165 million in turnover last year, this is a 20-percent increase in its business over 2009. The BVI company now employs 40 people in Dubai and the nearby emirate of Sharjah, as well as in the UK, Goa and Mumbai.

This is a 172% increase over company’s original land position reported in July 2009, which also includes 14 exploration licenses which have been granted last week. Also, Talon Metals has submitted applications for further exploration licences over an area of 23,066 hectares and is conducting negotiations on the acquisition of interest in additional areas within the Sergipe Basin.

Phase I of project’s exploration program includes an initial compilation of drilling and geophysical data in order to identify and model main targets within the Sergipe basin. After more drilling and seismic data were identified and acquired, the number of oil wells now available to Talon within the basin has increased significantly from 86 to 262. The company announced that the processing and interpretation of the extended data base has prolonged the terms of Phase I and delayed the commencement of the proposed drilling program until February 2010.

By words of Mr. Stuart Comline, President and CEO of Talon, company’s current landholding represents approximately 12% of the onshore portion of Sergipe basin, which is currently the only potash producing region in Brazil. The new licenses increase the area held by the BVI company, and the expanded data base will enhance its exploration program.

The government of the country planned to develop the airport but did not have money for it. There have been reports that the Government of Uganda had already sold the airport, but they were denied.

Technical committee started work on July 13 to study BVI company’s capacity, locations, its other business ventures and the proposal. It was disclosed also that the process started in September when Dodsal appointed Changi from Singapore as the consultants to study the feasibility of the deal. Later on, Dodsal, Changi and the Government signed a memorandum of understanding that opened way for the study.

In their turn, the Members of Parliament demanded that the ambassadors of the Saudi Arabia and UAE provide information about the investor. Some of them consider it is a wrong step to sell the airport, especially for a land-locked country like Uganda. The task of the government is to explain the arrangement under which the deal was initiated.

Munto Finance, whose owners are from the Middle East, provided a guaranteed undertaking to invest in the club, and a suitable proof of funds to the Board of Notts County and the Board of the Trust. Currently the Notts County Board and Trust Board who represent the shareholders of the club should make investigation and research on the investment porposal. The UK regulated (FSA) merchant bank has advised on the transaction; also, in the opinion of the board, the advisers and the shareholders, due diligence has been done, and the deal has been unanimously recommended.

London Town was established as a residential property developer. It came into the sphere of pub trade just in 2006 when it purchased 167 pubs for £94.7m from retired property investor.

The deal which was known as the first step in building London Town into a significant player in the pub industry, was funded through a £72.8m loan from Anglo Irish Bank, a £14m discounted bond issue and a £14.3m share placing. However, there is a drop in the pub industry now, so the acquisition along with three other smaller deals of London Town with the BVI company that followed in the next months, seems to be not in time.

By IGDX estimates, annual revenues of the BVI company will make $USD 9 million. The trading platform is designed to allow customers to go long and short in electronic and pit gold markets. It will be trialled in Indonesia. IGDX considers that the Goldzone platform’s popularity will grow due to the financial crisis, because more and more traders prefer to invest in gold, and gold price is rising.

However, there is a possibility that IGDX will go through insolvency procedure. Having announced the launch of Goldzone, it sent a letter to the ASX stock exchange with the report about whether the company’s cash flows would allow it to trade for another two quarters of the year. The Malaysian company was listed in early 2007, and since that time and until launching a new financial market its only businesses have been a HK-based gold coin dealing, and a business in Malaysia.

Richard Lowden, CFO & Senior Vice-President of the Venulum Group, said that the business growth, which is going on despite the current economic climate, became the reason for the expansion. BVI company’s property and wine investments are holding up well, and it was noted by the Chairman of Venulum concerning Venulum’s property that the company is “entering a period of great opportunity to acquire some bargains in the property markets, and Venulum is constantly being offered distressed sales from cash-strapped developers.”

Also, Mike King, Director of Venulum En-Primeur and Wine Investments Limited, commented on Venulum’s Wine fund, saying that although there were no new investments into the fund during the last quarter, it was a very successful period as the share value rose by over 6%.

British Virgin Islands-registered Virgin group has become one of the best-known brands in Britain. The mail-order business of the group started in 1969, and now the Virgin group has stakes in many diverse operations. The credit crunch makes pressure on at least one of Virgin’s debts, although the whole amount of debt of the BVI group is not clear yet, as Virgin Group is not publicly traded and does not report its accounts. British cable-television company, Virgin Media Inc., faced a deadline for lenders to approve postponing GBP 1.66 billion in loan payments due in 2010 and in the beginning of 2011. According to regulatory filings, the company might not have enough cash to repay the debt.

In May this year, the company opened a retail shop that allowed to think that it is going to compete with the likes of Amazon.com, but not the BVI-controlled company launched a distinctive  feature – the ability to publish any digital file at no cost to the creator, who will retain copyrights, and has the option to distribute his products for free or set a price and receive 50% of any sales revenue.

Self-publishing is available from a number of companies and their websites, including also Amazon. This company sees as one of its advantages the ability for the self-publishers to get to the huge marketing machine – Amazon.com, and it keeps 20% of the sale price of a book when it is sold through its e-stores, or 40% when sold through Amazon.com, plus takes a fixed fee for printing charges.

Youpublish.com hopes to receive its dividends from publishing online any digital materials, and by providing the 50% commission to the creator. The customers can create their own online libraries and leave their comments about the quality of the works, for other readers to see them.

The site of Youpublish.com is still evolving, and the founders are holing to improve the search engine and add more social networking feature and perhaps on-demand printing. The site is even planning to include the ability for a group of people to come together and write a book.

The company, owned by the BVI consortium, has no central office and is run with independent consultants. Web developers out of an office in Salt Lake City, and two marketing-support people  are working in Los Angeles.