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JFE Steel Corporation of Japan will invest Rs 15,750 crore to form a joint venture with Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel, according to a regulatory filing. The joint venture (JV) will include JSW Steel's arm Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd's (BPSL) integrated steel plant, situated in Odisha. In a BSE filing, JSW Steel said it has "entered into a strategic joint venture partnership with JFE Steel Corporation, Japan (JFE). The steel business undertaking of Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BPSL) will be transferred to a 50:50 joint venture with JFE through a slump sale, with a cash consideration of Rs 24,483 crore. JFE will invest Rs 15,750 crore in two tranches to acquire a 50 per cent stake in the joint venture, it added. JSW Steel had acquired BPSL in 2021 through Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) process and successfully transformed it from a 2.75 2.75 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) distressed unit into a profitable company with an expanded capacity of 4.5 MTP, currently employing 25,000 ..
Moody's Ratings upgraded its outlook on domestic steel major JSW Steel and its US-based arm Periama Holdings LLC to positive from stable. The change in outlook reflects JSW Steel's meaningful expansion in operating scale, reinforcing its position as India's largest steel producer, Hui Ting Sim, a Moody's Ratings Assistant Vice President and Analyst said in a report on Wednesday. Hui Ting Sim said the ramp-up of operations at recently completed projects will drive higher earnings and support sustained improvement in the company's credit metrics. The rating action also reflects our expectation that JSW Steel will implement its growth plans with financial discipline, and it will proactively manage the refinancing of significant debt obligations, the analyst said. "Moody's Ratings (Moody's) has changed the outlook on JSW Steel Limited (JSW Steel) and Periama Holdings LLC's (Periama Holdings) ratings to positive from stable," the report said. On the rationale behind the move, Moody's s