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US-based Oaktree offers Rs 20k-cr for DHFL, Piramal, Adani also in fray

Piramal offers Rs 15,000 cr for retail book, Adani offers Rs 3,000 cr for SRA, construction fin books

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The bids for the company were muted also due to a forensic audit report by Grant Thornton, which revealed a Rs 14,500-crore hole in DHFL’s books.

Dev Chatterjee Mumbai
The lenders to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) have received a cash offer of Rs 12,000 crore from US-based asset management company Oaktree Capital for the entire company. 

Oaktree has offered to pay an additional Rs 8,000 crore over the next few years, with interest to be paid on the balance in the interim period.

Oaktree’s Rs 20,000 crore is pitted against the Rs 15,000-crore offer by Piramal Enterprises for the retail portfolio and the Rs 3,000-crore put on the table made by Adani Group for the construction finance and slum re-development area projects.

“The banks will have to take

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