Business Standard

Lenders extend Reliance Home Finance bid deadline to January-end

Move follows request by suitors; only two of six contenders submitted binding bids, the other four came with riders

lenders, creditors, loans, housing, finance, ibc, bankruptcy, home, lending, company, firms, industry, shares, investment
Premium

A source said the 2 bidders opposed the deadline extension and threatened to walk away from the process. While US-based fund Avenue and ARCIL have made a joint bid, Authum Investment & Infrastructure has also placed its bid

Dev Chatterjee Mumbai
Lenders to Reliance Home Finance — part of the debt-ridden Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group — have extended the bidding deadline to end-January next year, following requests from bidders.

According to a source close to the development, only two bidders — Avenue-Asset Reconstruction Company (India), or ARCIL, consortium and Authum Investment & Infrastructure — have submitted binding bids. 

Four companies made non-binding bids, but with riders. 

Reliance Home Finance was sent for debt resolution by banks after it failed to repay its Rs 12,000-crore debt.

A source said the two bidders opposed the deadline extension and threatened to walk away from

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in