GMR Group on Friday said it will divest its entire 40 per cent stake in Cebu international airport in Philippines for an upfront payment of Rs 1,330 crore as well as earnouts to be received over a period of more than four years. The airport is being operated by GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) and GMR Airports International BV (GAIBV) holds a 40 per cent stake in the venture. A definitive agreement has been signed between GMR Airports International BV (GAIBV) and Aboitiz InfraCapital Inc (AIC) for the divestment of stake in Cebu airport. AIC is the infrastructure arm of the Philippines-based Aboitiz Group. According to a regulatory filing, the stake is being divested as part of the focus on deleveraging GMR Airports Ltd and churning assets for higher returns on investment. "The transaction will be undertaken at an enterprise value of PhP 49.7 billion (INR 70.5 billion) and GAIBV will receive an upfront amount of PhP 9.4 billion (INR 13.3 billion) in lieu of the shares
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Philippines' Megawide Construction Corp and its Indian partner are selling their shares in an airport developer and operator, in a deal worth $439.8 million, Megawide said in a disclosure
GMR Group on Friday said its joint venture Angkasa Pura Aviasi has started operating the Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, Indonesia
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GMR Airports Limited (GAL)said it won a bid for the development and operation of Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, Indonesia
GMR Infrastructure said it has received consent from stock exchanges, with no adverse observations, on its proposed restructuring involving demerger of its non-airport vertical business
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The French airport operator will now pay Rs 9,720 crore instead of Rs 10,780 crore which it had agreed to pay earlier
In its first tranche of investment, Groupe ADP had paid Rs 5,248 crore on February 26
Private joint venture airports (seven of them), including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad accounted for over 54 per cent of the 349 million passengers in CY19.
On February 21, it was announced that Groupe ADP would acquire 49 per cent stake in GMR Airports for Rs 10,780 crore
The regulator's clearance is through the green channel, which allows for an automatic system for speedy approval of combinations, subject to certain conditions