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Continuing its acquisition spree, electric equipment manufacturer Crompton Greaves Ltd said it will pick up a 41 per cent stake in Avantha Power and Infrastructure Ltd, a part of the Avantha group of companies. Crompton Greaves will invest Rs227 crore in APIL, picking up shares of the face value of Rs10 at a book value of Rs11. The Avantha group arm is an independent power producer engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. […] Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co., or Zain Group, said it is looking for an acquisition in India to enter the fastest growing telecommunications market in the world. “Whilst in 2008 Zain engaged in discussions with leading investment banks on (acquisition) opportunities in India, we were unable to conclude any transaction,” it said in an emailed statement to Dow Jones Newswires late Tuesday. “Zain will continue its evaluation of opportunities.” The company is still considering investments in Datacom Solutions Pvt. Ltd. or Loop Telecom Pvt. Ltd., two companies it had looked at last year as well, Zain said. […] The parent company of Novartis is set to buy 39% additional stake in its Indian unit, which will take its stake to 89–90%. It is offering Rs 351 per share. However, there is no indication from the company with regard to delisting. CNBC-TV18's Archi Damania reports. With regards to delisting there is no intimation from the company on whether the company will be de-listed or not. We spoke to a few people who said that, possibly, the company falls into a 10% free-float requirement. However, at the moment the comment from the company is that it has not given any intimation as to whether it will be listing or delisting it. […] ICRA Techno Analytics Inc, New Jersey, USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICRA Techno Analytics Limited (ICTEAS) operating from Kolkata, has acquired 100% stkae in Sapphire International Inc. (Sapphire), a Delaware Corporation based out of Trumbull, Connecticut, USA. Sapphire, a Microsoft Gold Partner, is in the business of providing IT solutions to government agencies and large corporations in the US market. ICTEAS is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICRA Limited, a leading Credit Rating Agency in India. Briefing newspersons on the sidelines of the signing of Stock Purchase Agreement in Kolkata on Friday, ICRA Vice Chairman and Group CEO, Mr.P.K. Choudhury said, “the acquisition is expected to provide strategic synergies to the software initiatives of ICTEAS in the diversified field of .NET applications and Business Applications and Solutions. Sapphire specializes in .NET based applications and solutions and has an impressive client list including government agencies and large corporations. The acquisition will enable the in-house capability of ICTEAS to cater to a wider client base in USA.” […] Telenor has reportedly planned to acquire majority stake in the Indian mobile operator Unitech Wireless. According to the agreement, the initial investment in Unitech Wireless made by Telenor will be worth $1.2 billion, though the operator will now acquire 67.25% stake and not 60%, which it had announced earlier. The subscription of shares will be completed in four phases. After the completion of first phase, which will be done soon, Telenor will own 33.5% stake in Unitech Wireless.(WF) […] Larsen & Toubro on Tuesday said it has no plans to rope in a private equity partner to jointly bid scam-hit Satyam Computers. “We are not in discussion with private equity firms to jointly bid for Satyam. This is purely speculative,” L&T's Director (Finance) Y M Deosthalee said. He was responding to reports that the engineering major was in talks with Blackstone, the Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs and Temasek among others to jointly bid for Satyam. […] Bank Muscat said on Tuesday it had sold 40 percent of its holdings in India's HDFC Bank and planned to sell its entire stake. Oman's largest lender said in a statement on the bourse website that it expected 4 million rials ($10.39 million) to 7 million rials in losses in the first quarter related to its equity portfolio. Bank Muscat has a stake of about 3 percent in HDFC. (ET) […] In a bid to provide access to entrepreneurial, technology and financial resources in one place to accelerate the success of high-potential technology startups, IDG Ventures India and Microsoft India announced an ‘Early Stage Funding Program’. This partnership will offer dual benefit to the startups registering for Microsoft BizSpark wherein they will get a funding of up to 25 crore rupees by IDG Ventures and access to Microsoft suite including the latest tools and technologies at no cost. The program is open to technology companies that are under three years old, and whose annual revenues are less than Rs 5 crore (US D 1 million). Companies meeting these eligibility criteria will be offered access to development software through Microsoft’s BizSpark program; and asked to send their business plans to IDG Ventures for evaluation. Startups that meet the investment criteria of the VC will be provided access to funding of up to Rs 25 crore. […] Reliance Money Express, a part of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group announced that the company would acquire UK-based forex firm, No 1 Currency. The company becomes first Indian company to acquire an international foreign exchange company. With the acquisition of the UK's fastest growing independent foreign currency specialist, Reliance Money Express would widen its service offering globally. […] Logistic service provider Allcargo Global has acquired a 5.97-per cent stake in rival Gateway Distripark for Rs29 crore, in an open market deal. Allcargo said that the transaction was “purely a treasury investment” and was funded from internal accruals. Global private equity fund Blackstone Group LP has a 10.39-per cent stake in Allcargo. The 6.1 million equity shares were bought by Sealand Terminals Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allcargo from the Singapore government's investment arm Temsek Holdings Pte Ltd. […] |