Sundaram Finance Holdings (SFH) is putting in further 2 million Euros in it’s portfolio company Mind S.r.l., Italy (MSI), to augment the working capital needs and for further growth. Key points to note – MSI manufactures carbon fibre components for the automotive industry in Europe. SFH had acquired 40.6% stake in MSI last year for … Read more
Dr Lal Pathlabs (LPL) has acquired 100% stake in Suburban Diagnostics (SD) Key points to note SD is a Sequoia supported entity, who had put in Rs 40 crore into the Company in 2012. Sequoia had been drawing up an exit plan – explored IPO route previously and recently the more recently the Company was … Read more
Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) while announcing the Q2 results for FY 22, informed about two more key decisions – It’s acquiring balance 39.84% of Roots Corporation Limited (operates Ginger brand of hotels) at an equity valuation of Rs 1,225 crore (i.e., for Rs 488 crore). Stake would be acquired from the existing shareholders making … Read more
In June 2018, Whirlpool had acquired 49% strategic interest in Elica PB India (Elica) to expand the cooking business. Whirlpool has now acquired additional 38% stake in Elica for an estimated $57 mn – bringing the total stake to 87% and consequently Elica becoming a subsidiary of Whirlpool. Elica PB India, is the Indian arm … Read more
Earlier on January 17, 2021, Metropolis Healthcare had approved the acquisition of Hitech Diagnostic Centre and its arm Centralab Healthcare Services in a combination of cash and equity shares deal. At that time, it was cash consideration of Rs 511 crore and equity consideration of up to 4,95,000 fully paid-up equity shares of Rs 2 each. Now the … Read more
Recently there has been a lot of tussle going on in between Zee Entertainment and Invesco (it’s largest shareholder with 17.88% stake). It started with Invesco requesting for an EGM to seek a major management reshuffle in mid September 2021, effectively taking the company out of promoter’s control. As Zee chose to ignore the request, … Read more
Reliance sprung another surprise on October 10, 2021 (Sunday) when it announced two strategic investments into it’s newly identified focus area – Solar Power. In the afternoon – 100% acquisition of REC Solar Holdings for an enterprise value of $771 million (Rs 5,800 crore) from China National Bluestar (Group) Co Ltd; and In the evening … Read more
Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) has agreed to acquire 9.98% in KFin Technologies Private Limited (KFin) for a cash consideration of Rs 310 crore. Funds will be infused directly into the company via fresh share issue. Key points to note – KFin was earlier known as Karvy Fintech. However, in December 2019 it renamed itself to … Read more
Kubota Corp (KC) of Japan, an agriculture and heavy equipment firm is rumoured to be in discussions with the promoters (Nanda family) to acquire their stake in Escorts Ltd (EL). Key points to note – KC’s current mcap is around USD 27 bn and EL’s about USD 2.7bn. KC already owns 9.09% in EL – … Read more