Recently, the Board Of Directors of Pfizer Ltd. (“Pfizer India”) and Wyeth Ltd. (“Wyeth India”) had approved the long-awaited merger of Wyeth India into Pfizer India, which will create a single Pfizer brand in India. In...
Mahindra Satyam: Back From The Brink!
In September 2008, Satyam, the then sixth largest India-based IT services company, received the coveted “Golden Peacock Global Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance”. Then, just four short months after this...
Merger & Acquisition – The Telecom Way
A panel of Ministers called the EGoM (Empowered Group of Ministers) approved the final draft of the much-awaited merger & acquisition (M&A) guidelines for the Telecom sector which are likely to support the...
TATA Power Acquires AES Corp
TATA has entered into share purchase agreement (SPA) with AES Corp. for 100% shareholding of AES Saurastha Winds Farms Private Limited. This is the horizontal acquisition as the TATA has a presence in renewable energy...
Two Airlines Driven By One Pilot: TATA
Ratan TATA‘s long-standing but unrealized dreams may finally be getting wings. Nearly six decades after the Indian government divested the TATA’s of their majority holding in Air India by nationalizing the airline, TATA...
Angels Enter India…!
On 21st May 2012, SEBI notified the Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations bringing all privately pooled investment funds under one roof (except Mutual Funds and Collective Investment Schemes). The said...
The BlackBerry’s Story
RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED (RIM): The company was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act on March 1984, head-quarter at Canada. A global leader in wireless innovation revolutionized the mobile industry with...
UltraTech Acquires Gujarat Unit Of Jaypee Cement
UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group Company, has acquired the 4.8-million tonne per annum (mtpa) Gujarat unit of Jaypee Cement Corporation, for Rs 3,800 crore. As part of the deal, UltraTech will take over debt of...
My Home Acquires Jayajothi To Build “OWN HOME”
My Home Industries Limited (MHIL): MHIL is a joint venture between My Home Group and CRH Plc. CRH Plc which is having the presence in 33 countries across 3,500 locations. The products of MHIL with nomenclature MAHA...
Holcim Partial Exit—Innovative Structure
The cement industry is literally the building block of a nation. A country’s cement output is considered one of the primary indicators of its level of economic development. In a recent development Holcim, one of the...
Tech Mahindra Successfully Merges Satyam With Itself
Tech Mahindra completed Satyam’s merger with itself. The merged entity will be called Tech Mahindra and Mr. Anand Mahindra will be its Chairman. Tech Mahindra Managing Director, C. P. Gurnani announced that the swap...
SMALL IS THE NEW BIG
Market regulator SEBI, vide notification dated 8th October 2013 issued the SEBI (Listing of specified securities on Institutional Trading Platform) Regulations, 2013. SEBI has initiated a new trading platform for the...