FACTBOX - Top outbound M&A deals from India

REUTERS - Ford Motor Co is expected to confirm the sale of its British luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover to India's top vehicle maker Tata Motors for over $2 billion later on Wednesday.

Here are five facts about Indian outbound M&As, according to data from Thomson Financial:

- Tata Steel engineered India's biggest takeover yet, a $13 billion purchase of Corus Group Plc, more than double the size of the No. 2 deal, the purchase of Canada's Novelis by Hindalco Industries in 2007.

- Indian firms completed deals worth $31.4 billion in 2007, up from about $7 billion the previous year.

- Before the expected deal with Ford, cross-border acquisitions announced by Indian companies in 2008 totalled $2.4 billion from 51 deals.

- After the expected Tata Motors deal, the No. 2 deal this year was by Tata Chemicals, which agreed to pay $1.01 billion for U.S.-based General Chemical Industrial Products Inc.

- Standard Chartered Plc tops the league table for financial advisors in 2008, with more than half the market.

Source: Thomson Financial