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Yes Bank on Tuesday said private equity majors Carlyle Group and Advent have picked up 9.99 per cent stake in the bank. The two private equity (PE) funds together would pump in about Rs 8,896 crore in Yes Bank with full conversion of warrants into equity. The bank has allotted a total of 369.61 crore shares of face value Rs 2 each and 255.97 share warrants convertible into equity shares of face value Rs 2 each on a preferential basis to CA Basque Investments, a Carlyle Group entity, and Verventa Holdings Limited, an Advent group entity, Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing. Pursuant to the allotment of the equity shares, the total issued and paid-up share capital of Yes Bank has increased from Rs 5,011.31 to Rs 5,750.54, it said. CA Basque Investments was allotted 184.80 shares with a face value of Rs 2 at an issue price of Rs 13.78 and 127.98 share warrants carrying a right to exercise, get issued and allotted 1 (One) equity share with a face value of Rs 2 for each warrant at a pr
Private equity majors The Carlyle Group and Advent have got the Reserve Bank's nod to own up to 9.99 per cent in Yes Bank, the private sector lender said on Thursday. The two PE funds in July this year expressed an intent to pump-in over Rs 8,000 crore in Yes Bank subject to regulatory permissions. Regulatory nod is required for owning over 5 per cent in a bank. In a stock exchange filing, Yes Bank said through separate letters on November 30, RBI has given conditional approval for both the funds to own 9.99 per cent of the paid-up share capital of the lender by subscribing to equity shares and share warrants. the investors (Carlyle and Advent) are evaluating the conditions. The investors and the bank will engage with the RBI to seek an early resolution of the conditions to procure the final approval on this matter, the statement added. Yes Bank had to be bailed out by fellow lenders in a RBI-led scheme in 2020, after alleged malfeasance by its founders led to a huge chunk of loans
To offset the high attrition rate and execute about USD 2-billion order pipeline, global private equity major Carlyle Group-controlled Hexaware Technologies is adding 10,000 more to its 25,000-strong headcount this year, a senior company official has said. Last October, the Carlyle Group offered a reported USD 3 billion to Baring Private Equity Asia for the city-based software firm founded by technology veteran Atul K Nishar in 1990. PTI was the first to report in late August 2021 that Carlyle, the Washington-based private equity, alternative asset management and financial services giant set to pip bulge bracket rivals such as Bain Capital, KKR & Co and the Paris-based outsourcer Teleperformance, was the winner with a USD 3-billion bid for the company. None of the three parties has yet officially announced the deal completion. Nishar, who was founder and chairman of Hexaware Technologies, had in 2013 sold majority stake to Baring PE Asia for Rs 1,687 crore, with an open offer for .