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Realty firm Prestige Estates Projects Ltd has acquired 50 per cent stake in Advent Convention and Hotels International Ltd for Rs 504 crore as parts of its expansion plan. Bengaluru-based Prestige Estates has entered into an investment agreement to acquire 50 per cent stake in Advent Convention and Hotels International Ltd (ACHIL), which is undertaking development of a commercial project in Mumbai, according to a regulatory filing on July 3. Prestige and ACHIL would develop a commercial project on lands admeasuring to 21,978.22 square metre at Andheri East, Mumbai. "The project entails a total leasable area of 1.50 million sq ft and has a gross development value of Rs 4,500 crore," it said. Prestige Estates will infuse an amount of up to Rs 504 crore for the acquisition of the 50 per cent stake in ACHIL, the filing said. Prestige Estates, one of the leading real estate developers in the country, builds housing, commercial (office complexes and shopping malls) and hospitality ...
Global private equity firm Advent International on Friday announced a new board and management of Suven Pharmaceuticals after completing the acquisition of a majority stake in the domestic drug maker. Suven Pharma will be led by a management team comprising Annaswamy Vaidheesh (Executive Chairman), Dr V Prasada Raju (Managing Director) and Dr Sudhir Kumar Singh (Chief Executive Office), Advent International said in a statement filed on BSE by Suven Pharma. In terms of the Board of Directors, along with Vaidheesh and Raju, Pankaj Patwari, Managing Director at Advent, will also join the team, it added. Suven will also have three independent directors - - K.G Ananthakrishnan, Ex-MD MSD India and Ex-Director General of OPPI, and Chairman of PNB; Matangi Gowrishankar, Ex-BP Global Head of Capability Development, and Ex-Director of Human resources, Castrol India, Strategic Advisor and Certified coach; Vinod Rao, former head of investor relations at Diageo and ex-CFO PepsiCo Asia ...
Yes Bank on Tuesday said private equity majors Carlyle Group and Advent have picked up 9.99 per cent stake in the bank. The two private equity (PE) funds together would pump in about Rs 8,896 crore in Yes Bank with full conversion of warrants into equity. The bank has allotted a total of 369.61 crore shares of face value Rs 2 each and 255.97 share warrants convertible into equity shares of face value Rs 2 each on a preferential basis to CA Basque Investments, a Carlyle Group entity, and Verventa Holdings Limited, an Advent group entity, Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing. Pursuant to the allotment of the equity shares, the total issued and paid-up share capital of Yes Bank has increased from Rs 5,011.31 to Rs 5,750.54, it said. CA Basque Investments was allotted 184.80 shares with a face value of Rs 2 at an issue price of Rs 13.78 and 127.98 share warrants carrying a right to exercise, get issued and allotted 1 (One) equity share with a face value of Rs 2 for each warrant at a pr