london in a sign of the emerging market giants burgeoning power indian investment into the uk is poised to outstrip british investment in the subcontinent reversing the flow of capital for the first time since the days of raja research by close brothers corporate finance for the sunday telegraph suggested that by 2010 indian companies will buy up to 150 uk businesses a year while british companies will acquire just 138 in indiaindias booming companies are increasingly willing to spend money abroad with the uk a favourite target of the 124 billion in deals announced in the last five years more than half 68 billion was spent in britainother european countries lagged far behind with the next most popular germany picking up just 1 billion worth of indian investmentclose brothers md richard grainger who has just signed off a deal to add bangalore boutique allegro capital advisors to closes international network said the stillstrong cultural ties between uk and india encourage investmentwe have a linguistic advantage here and in the us while in countries like france and germany there are employment issues around investing grainger told the british dailygrainer pointed out to tatas 2005 acquisition of uk technology business incat as a turning point in the investment trend that was the first sign of the wall of money coming out of india he said tata eclipsed its own deal earlier this year when it won the 6 bilion battle for corus the britishdutch steel company indian tea company apeejay international also scored a psychological victory when it picked up britains typhoo in 2005 taking tea back to indiaif indias acquisition spree continues on trend the emerging market giant will buy 31 uk companies this year almost double that to 52 next year then push up to 90 corporate raids in 2009british companies will also increase investment in india but by nothing like the same rate from 50 acquisitions this year uk companies are expected to pick up 99 companies in 2009 grainger said india would soon need serious investment in its infrastructure i can see at that point that british companies will start buying up assets there to be part of that investment