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Brookfield India REIT raises Rs 3,500 crore via QIP to reduce debt

Brookfield India Real Estate Trust has raised Rs 3,500 crore by selling units to institutional investors through QIP issue mainly to reduce debt. In a regulatory filing on Friday, the company said it has successfully completed a capital raise of Rs 3,500 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) of units. The issue was launched on December 9. The issue saw strong demand from long-term investors including a mix offerings from institutions, mutual funds, and life insurance companies. "The issue marked the first REIT investments in India from the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank group) and Life Insurance Corporation of India," Brookfield India REIT said. Other anchor investors included SBI Mutual Fund and ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund. The total demand secured from investors was over Rs 5,200 crore, of which Rs 3,500 crore was allotted. The funds raised will be used primarily for reduction of debt. The Issue Committee of the Board of Directors

Brookfield India REIT to raise up to Rs 3,500 cr via issue of unitholders

Brookfield India Real Estate Trust on Thursday announced plans to raise up to Rs 3,500 crore through issue of units to institutional investors to reduce debt as well as to fund future growth, and reported a 40 per cent increase in its net operating income to Rs 485.8 crore for the second quarter of this fiscal. The company also announced distribution of Rs 220.8 crore for the second quarter of this fiscal to unitholders. The board of directors of Brookprop Management Services Pvt Ltd, the manager of Brookfield India Real Estate Trust, approved the issuance of units of Brookfield India REIT through an institutional placement of units not exceeding Rs 3500 crore in one or more placement, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. The proceeds will be used for the partial or full prepayment or repayment of the outstanding borrowings, equity contribution, general purposes, including funding operating expenses, funding capital expenditure, making investments in creditworthy instrument

Brookfield India REIT Q2 FY25 Results: Adjusted NOI grows 40% YoY

The REIT also declared a distribution of Rs 4.60 per unit to its unitholders

Brookfield Properties to supply green power to office campuses in Delhi-NCR

Brookfield Properties will source renewable power from solar project at Bikaner in Rajasthan for supplying green energy at four office campuses across Delhi-NCR. In a statement on Monday, Brookfield Properties said it has "secured renewable power from Brookfield's Bikaner Solar Power Project in the first partnership in India under the Inter State Transmission System (ISTS) bilateral arrangement." As a result, Brookfield Properties' occupiers in Delhi- NCR now receive 40 per cent of their energy from renewable power. This transition at its four campuses -- Candor TechSpace Sector 48 and 21 in Gurugram, and Candor TechSpace Sector 62 and 135 in Noida -- is part of the Brookfield India Real Estate Trust portfolio and is expected to reduce more than 20,000 tonne of CO2 annually. Brookfield Properties is one of the leading global operators and developers of real estate assets. It is active in nearly all real estate segments including office, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and ...

Brookfield likely to add more to $13 bn it has bet on India infrastructure

Toronto-based Brookfield has nearly $29 billion of assets across infrastructure, real estate, renewable and private equity investments in India

Data InvIT raises nearly $1 bn in rare bond deal to fund ATC India purchase

Canada's Brookfield Asset Management had said at the start of the year that it would buy ATC's India operations, ATC Telecom Infrastructure, for $2.5 billion via the trust

Brookfield India REIT Q1 results: PAT jumps to Rs 37.3 cr, NOI at Rs 440 cr

Brookfield India Real Estate Trust has reported a 93 per cent jump in its net operating income to Rs 439.9 crore and declared a distribution of Rs 216 crore for the June 2024 quarter. Its net operating income (NOI) stood at Rs 227.5 crore in the year-ago period. According to a regulatory filing on Wednesday, Brookfield India Real Estate Trust declared a distribution of Rs 216 crore or Rs 4.50 per unit for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. The company's net profit stood at Rs 37.35 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal against a loss of Rs 27 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 590.91 crore from Rs 320.73 crore during the period under review. Brookfield India Real Estate Trust achieved gross leasing of 2,42,000 square feet at Rs 135 per square feet. During the June quarter, the company informed that it has completed the acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in a 3.3 million square feet commercial portfolio in Delhi-NCR from Bharti Enterprises for Rs 1228 ...

Brookfield in talks to buy majority stake in credit manager Castlelake

Castlelake, an alternative investment firm, has about $22 billion in assets under management and invests in sectors such as specialty finance and aviation, according to the company website

Brookfield-backed India Infra InvIT to raise Rs 6,452 crore via debentures

The infrastructure investment trust is in the process of issuing NCDs, and the proceeds will be used entirely to refinance debt maturing at the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) level

Brookfield planning $1.2 billion of debt to buy India assets: Reports

Investment firm Brookfield is betting on growth in India, whose economy is outpacing that of other large countries and where smartphone usage is increasing rapidly

RIL, int'l partners launch data centre in Chennai, their first in India

Joint venture called Digital Connexion has bought land in Mumbai to set up another data centre

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Ambani says Reliance-Brookfield to open data centre in Chennai next week

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Sunday said his firm Reliance Industries in partnership with Canada's Brookfield will open a data centre in Chennai next week, marking entry into the fast-growing market. Reliance had in July last year invested about Rs 378 crore to enter an existing joint venture, where Brookfield Infrastructure and US-based realty estate investment trust Digital Realty were already partners. The three own 33 per cent each in the venture. Speaking at the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet here, Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd, said his group is investing in renewable energy and green hydrogen as well as in setting up a data centre in the state. "Reliance has partnered with Canada's Brookfield asset management and US-based Digital Reality to set up a state-of-the-art data centre, which will be opened next week," he said. The Indian data centres market, which is expected to grow 40 per cent a year and draw USD 5 billion in investments by .

American Tower to sell India operations to Brookfield for $2.5 billion

Canada-based Brookfield will acquire the Indian business of American Tower Corporation (ATC) for an enterprise value of USD 2 billion, a release said on Friday. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and expected to close in the second half of 2024. "Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an Infrastructure Investment Trust sponsored by an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, today announced the signing of an agreement with ATC to acquire 100 per cent of equity interests in American Tower's operations in India (ATC India), for an enterprise value of Rs 16,500 crore (USD 2 billion) which is subject to pre-closing terms as per the securities purchase agreement," it said. ATC India has a portfolio of approximately 78,000 sites across the country. This will be Brookfield's third acquisition in the Indian telecommunications space. In 2022, Brookfield acquired a portfolio of 5,000 indoor business solution sites and small cell sites, which advances the rollout of 5G and enables

RIL, Brookfield Infra, Digital Realty set up data centre joint venture

Reliance Industries, infrastructure firm Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty have concluded a transaction to set up a three-way joint venture for data centre services, an official statement said on Tuesday. The three companies entered into an agreement in July 2023 to invest in their existing special purpose vehicle Digital Connexion for developing data centres in India. "With this announcement, the joint venture will assume a new identity as Digital Connexion: A Brookfield, Jio and Digital Realty Company succeeding and building on the strong foundation laid by BAM Digital Realty," Digital Connexion said in a statement. The transaction will result in the three companies becoming equal shareholders, with each owning a one-third (33.33 per cent) stake in the joint venture. "The joint venture is actively progressing the development of strategically located data centres in Chennai and Mumbai. Its flagship greenfield data centre, MAA10, with 20 megawatts (MW) of IT load capacit

Brookfield's $12.8 billion Origin Energy bid rejected by investors

"The utility will "focus on delivering on our strategic priorities, accelerating investment in cleaner energy and storage and pursuing our ambition to lead the energy transition," Origin Chairman said

Brookfield to invest $850 mn in development of renewable energy projects

Axis Energy Ventures will contribute its extensive portfolio of wind and solar projects at varying stages of development across the country to the venture, said a statement

Private equity firms TPG, Tepco, Brookfield in talks for JSW Neo stake

JSW Energy had earlier announced that it would be shifting its hydro energy projects into subsidiaries under JSW Neo Energy

Brookfield, RIL sign MoU to explore renewable opportunities in Australia

Under the MoU, Brookfield will collaborate with RIL to assess potential capital investment and skill development opportunities in Australia's renewable energy sector

Reliance partners with Brookfield for Australia's renewable energy push

Brookfield Asset Management said in March it will invest A$20 billion and A$30 billion over the next ten years in Australia along with it partners in renewable energy projects