UB Holdings up on TV reports about stake sale ruling

Reuters Market Eye - Shares in United Breweries Holdings Ltd jump 9.9 percent after CNBC-TV18 and ET Now reported the Karnataka High Court has allowed UBHL to sell its shares in group company United Spirits to Diageo Plc to complete the long-pending deal.

UBHL is the holding company for a group of companies controlled by Vijay Mallya, including Kingfisher Airlines Ltd , and the sale of shares would help Mallya finalise the transfer of a controlling stake in United Spirits to Diageo.

UBHL owned 15.7 percent stake in United Spirits as of the end March.

Creditors of bankrupt Kingfisher had filed a petition in the Karnataka court to try to prevent the transfer of UB Holding shares in United Spirits to Diageo.

 

A spokesman for the UB Group declined to comment on the TV reports.

(Reporting by Rafael Nam)