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The board of PFC has decided not to sanction loans to Shapoorji Pallonji Group as it does not favour takeing "high-end exposure", PFC CMD Parminder Chopra said. The Power Finance Corporation (PFC) chairman and managing director (CMD) Parminder Chopra made the remarks in a post earnings call. "The Board in its wisdom has decided that since it's a new sector for us, so we may not take that high-end exposure," she said in reply to a question related to sanctioning loan to Shapoorji Pallonji. Shapoorji Pallonji Group is a business conglomerate which specializes in sectors like engineering and construction. PFC had conducted a due diligence process related to sanctioning loan to Shapoorji Pallonji, she said. It was finally decided not to go ahead with the sanctioning of the loan for Shapoorji Pallonji, the chairman said. As per media reports, PFC has rejected loan proposal worth around USD 2.4 billion to Shapoorji Pallonji. PFC is an infrastructure finance company under the power min
Shapoorji Pallonji Group's flagship infrastructure engineering and construction firm Afcons Infrastructure Ltd (AIL) on Thursday said it has mobilised Rs 1,621 crore from anchor investors, a day before its initial share sale opening for public subscription. Foreign and domestic institutions participated in the anchor book include HDFC Mutual Fund (MF), ICICI Prudential MF, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Group, Nomura, Nippon India MF, Enam Holdings, Mirae MF, Quant MF, Invesco MF, Eastbridge, Amundi, Invesco HK and SBI General Insurance. The company has allocated over 3.5 crore equity shares to 80 funds at Rs 463 apiece, which is also the upper end of the price band. This aggregates the transaction size to Rs 1,621.5 crore, according to a circular uploaded on BSE's website. Of 3.5 crore equity shares, 1.17 crore equity shares worth Rs 542.2 crore were allocated to 15 domestic mutual funds through a total of 31 schemes. This accounts for 33.44 per cent of the .
Shapoorji Pallonji Group's infrastructure engineering and construction company Afcons Infrastructure Ltd (AIL) is gearing up to launch its Rs 5,430-crore initial public offering (IPO) on October 25. The initial share sale will conclude on October 29 and the bidding for anchor investors will open for a day on October 24, according to the red herring prospectus (RHP). The company will announce the price band for the IPO next week. The infrastructure firm's Rs 5,430-crore IPO is a combination of a fresh issue of shares worth Rs 1,250 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to Rs 4,180 crore by promoter Goswami Infratech Private Limited. The offer size has been reduced following a pre-IPO fundraising. In the March draft papers, the company had initially planned to raise Rs 7,000 crore through the initial share sale. Currently, promoter and promoter group entities own a 99 per cent stake in Maharashtra-based Afcons Infrastructure. The company will utilise Rs 80 crore from the fresh issu
Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate (SPRE) has formed a joint venture with Kanodia Group's real estate venture Kreeva to develop a luxury residential project in Gurugram. The land is located at Sector 46, Gurugram. Spanning across 1.74 acres, the project will consist of luxury apartments, targeting homebuyers in the National Capital Region (NCR), the company said in a statement. Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan, Director Group Promoter's Office, MD & CEO, Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate (SPRE), said, "We are excited to partner with KREEVA (Kanodia Real Estate Venture Arm) to bring our expertise in real estate development to Gurugram's Sector 46". This collaboration is in line with the company's vision of expanding its footprint in key markets across India, he said. "This is our second project in Gurugram, and we aim to create a landmark that will redefine the skyline of the location and provide an unparalleled living experience," Gopalakrishnan said. Gautam Kanodia, founder of Kreeva and ...
Ratan Tata will always be remembered as a leader who left a lasting mark on the evolution of the Tata Group and his unfortunate passing marks the end of an era, SP Group Chairman Shapoorji Mistry said on Thursday. In his condolence message, Mistry said, "Mr Tata's unfortunate passing marks the end of an era. He will always be remembered as a leader who left a lasting mark on the evolution of the Tata Group." He further said, "The Mistry family has had a long standing relationship with the Tata Group and with Mr Ratan Tata." The SP Group is the largest minority shareholder with 18.37 per cent stake in Tata Sons, the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. The relationship between the SP Group and the Tatas soured after the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as Chairman of Tata Sons on October 24, 2016. Cyrus Mistry, who succeeded Ratan Tata as the chief of the Tata group in 2012, died in a car accident in 2022.
Engineering and construction major Shapoorji Pallonji group is gearing up to receive investments of over Rs 2,100 crore from a consortium of global investors led by Deutsche Bank, according to sources. The global investors are existing investors in the group's investment company Goswami Infratech, which is also one of the promoter companies of Afcons Infrastructure that is scheduled for Rs 7,000 crore IPO early next month. The group has also sought an extension of payments on non-convertible debentures of up to Rs 2,100 crore, which are due in September, till December this year. This development comes on the back of the SP Group lining up near-term repayments of nearly Rs 8,000 crore through identified liquidity events, including proceeds from the upcoming IPO Afcons Infrastructure and from the sale ports assets, a person aware of the development said. "A few global investors in Goswami Infratech Pvt Ltd have agreed in principle to further their investments in the SP Group company,
An investment platform co-owned by debt-laden Shapoorji Pallonji Group has sold its stake in a Hyderabad commercial real estate project for Rs 2,200 crore, sources said on Wednesday. Singapore's GIC is said to have bought the stake in the TSI Business Parks (Hyderabad) Pvt Ltd, the sources said. SPREF II, the investment platform owned by Shapoorji Pallonji Group and German insurer Allianz, acquired a controlling stake in TSIBPH in December 2019. TSIBPH owns Waverock, an IT special economic zone in Gachibowli in Hyderabad with a gross leasable area of about 2.4 million sq ft, as per a statement. "The securities held by SPREF II in TSIBPH have been purchased by a joint venture of global institutional investors, marking one of the largest transactions in Indian real estate in FY24-25," the statement said. However, the quantum of money coming into the SP Group was not immediately clear because its stake in the investment platform SPREF II could not be ascertained. "This transaction .