Only two firms in race for retail, wholesale, and slum rehabilitation authority portfolio
US-based Carlyle Group Inc will pick up a 20% stake in Piramal Pharma for around $490 million (over Rs 3,700 crore), Piramal Enterprises said on Saturday
At the end of March quarter, the financial services arm had Rs 8,900 crore in the form of cash and undrawn bank lines but it has drawn down Rs 4,000 crore of long term bank lines since the beginning o
Piramal, Tata Power, and TVS group units figure in list
Under development management, a developer takes care of the design, construction, marketing, and sales of a project for a fee from the original landowner/developer
The announcement was made by Telangana government following a meeting between Piramal group chairman Ajay Piraml and state IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao at Davos
At present, the company's total debt including short-term and long-term facilities stand at Rs 1,630.65 crore and it owes Rs 999.74 crore to banks and financial institutions
The transaction, facilitated by property consultant JLL, included sale of a prime commercial land parcel on Richmond Road in Bengaluru's central business district to SNC
With this, Piramal would also be facilitating external capital (on a fund or co-investment basis) alongside its lending business
The company has been making operating losses for the past three years, thereby struggling to pay interest charges
It also has real estate funds with Brookfield of Canada, thus, becoming one of the first companies to start a trend of real estate company co-investing with a global fund manager
The company, which is part of the Ashok Piramal Group, till July 2019 had Rs 2,310 crore in debts on a consolidated basis
Group holds 20% in unlisted Shriram Capital and another 10% in Shriram City Union
The downgrade comes at a time when group flagship Piramal Enterprises is planning a rights issue worth Rs 3,650 crore
The rating downgrade factors in high refinancing risk given consolidated ongoing project debt repayments of Rs 663 cr from July 2019 to March 2020 and Rs 417 cr in FY21, as there is slowdown in sales
Reliance Home Finance is also looking to wind down its book and focus on the retail segment, which is valued at about Rs 4,000 crore
Piramal Fund Management said the fund was launched in 2013 with a primary tenure of six years, extendable by up to two additional one-year periods, by the trustee
Thyagarajan says there won't be any vacuum as every firm has independent management
IFC's loan will be utilized for on-lending to the retail housing finance sector
Company had a loan book of Rs 527.93 bn in Q2FY19