Aditya Birla, Piramal-Bain, Shree make aggressive bids for Binani Cement

Could be the first stressed firm to be sold at a price higher than its debt

India’s top cement majors, including UltraTech Cement of the Aditya Birla Group and Shree Cement, and the stressed asset investment fund of Piramal Enterprises and Bain Capital Credit have made aggressive bids for Binani Cement, a 98.4 per cent subsidiary of BSE-listed Binani Industries.

Lenders are expecting bids to come in higher than the cement company’s debt of Rs 3,682 crore, as against significant haircuts taken by banks in other Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) cases.

Binani Cement was sent to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under the IBC in mid-2017 after the company failed to repay its debt due to