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Billionaire Nikhil Merchant-led Swan Energy Ltd has said it plans to sell its stake in a floating LNG receipt terminal to Turkey's state-run Botas for USD 399 million. The company plans to sell assets of subsidiary Triumph Offshore Pvt Ltd to Botas Trading IC, according to a regulatory filing. "The definitive documents shall be signed in due course," it said, adding the deal is likely to be completed in six months. The sale consideration of USD 399 million is to be received in multiple tranches over an unspecified period. Triumph Offshore Private Limited (TOPL) owns a 5 million tonnes a year floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) called Vasant-1. Swan Energy holds 51 per cent in TOPL while fertiliser maker IFFCO the remaining 49 per cent. The filing did not say if IFFCO is also offloading its stake. Swan is building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at Jafrabad in Gujarat. In the initial phase, gas, which is used to make fertilizers, generate electricity and
Global asset manager BlackRock on Monday bought shares of Swan Energy for Rs 304 crore through open market transactions. US-based BlackRock through its three affiliates acquired 45.56 lakh shares, amounting to a 1.45 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Swan Energy, as per the block deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The shares were picked up at an average price of Rs 668.27 apiece, taking the combined deal size to Rs 304.50 crore. Meanwhile, Mauritius-based private equity fund 2i Capital PCC, EOS Multi-Strategy Fund AIFLNP VCIC, Dovetail India Fund, Epitome Trading and Investments and Paulomi Ketan Doshi were among the entities which offloaded shares of Swan Energy. The shares were disposed of in the price range of Rs 666.20-692.60 per piece. Shares of Swan Energy jumped 5 per cent to close at Rs 692.60 apiece -- its upper circuit limit -- on the NSE. Swan Energy operates across sectors including textiles, real estate, energy, and petrochemicals.
The National Company Law Tribunal has directed Swan Energy-IFFCO joint venture Triumph Offshore to hold a board meeting before April 4 to discuss issues raised by minority shareholder IFFCO regarding feasibility and viability of offering services to operate vessels. The NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) has set April 4 as the next date of hearing of a plea filed by IFFCO, seeking to restrain Triumph Offshore from passing any resolution without its approval and issuing any share/security to the lenders for paying loans. Triumph Offshore is a joint venture between fertiliser player IFFCO and Swan Energy Ltd (SEL) which is engaged in onshore gas distribution terminal business. The joint venture was formed to set up a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). FSRU is a floating vessel having tanks for LNG storage. SEL has a 51 per cent stake and IFFCO owns 49 per cent in Triumph Offshore. Earlier this month, IFFCO moved the Ahmedabad bench of the NCLT, seeking to restrain ...
Swan Energy on Monday said its natural gas business arm Swan LNG Pvt Ltd has prepaid Rs 2,206 crore of loan taken from a consortium of lenders. Post-prepayment, Swan LNG's debt has come down to Rs 1,611 crore and the firm will save around Rs 250 crore in interest cost annually, the company said in a statement without disclosing the lenders' names. Before the repayment, the group's overall debt stood at Rs 3,817 crore as of December 2023. To facilitate the pre-payment, the parent company Swan Energy has lent Rs 2,210 crore to Swan LNG. Swan Energy had last week raised Rs 3,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement of equities to SBI Life, LIC, LIC Mutual Fund, Tata Mutual Fund, Infini Mutual Fund, SBI General Insurance, BNP Paribas Mutual Fund, Nomura, Diamond Asia, Bank of India Mutual Fund, ITI Mutual Fund, Goldman Sachs, Future Generali, Anand Rathi, and Quant Mutual Fund, among others. Meanwhile, public sector fertilizer major IFFCO, which has a joint venture with S
IFFCO has moved the NCLT against Swan Energy Ltd (SEL) and their joint venture Triumph Offshore to restrain their JV firm from passing any resolution without its approval and issuing any share/security to the lenders against loans. Seeking an injunction against any such proposal, IFFCO, in its petition filed before the Ahmedabad bench of the NCLT, alleged that Triumph Offshore is pre-paying the debt, which may result in dilution of its shareholding in the joint venture firm and is detrimental to its interest. IFFCO has moved the NCLT under sections 241 and 242 of the Companies Act 2013, alleging oppression and mismanagement. It has prayed to restrain Swan Energy and Triumph Offshore "from passing any board resolution without the prior written approval of petitioner (IFFCO), with reference to the substitution of the bank term loan with promoters loan or from issuing any shares/security or any instrument convertible into equity in favour of R2 (SEL) or any third party, which may resul