Aditya Birla ARC leads race for RPower unit

Industry:    8 months ago

The race for Vidarbha Industries Power (VIPL), a subsidiary of Reliance Power, is heating up with three more companies, including Aditya Birla Asset Reconstruction Company and Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company (RARC), joining the fray. Rare Asset Reconstruction (Rare ARC) and Asset Reconstruction Company (India), or Arcil, have also submitted expressions of interest (EoIs) under the Swiss Challenge method.

While bids amounts submitted by the new entrants could not be immediately ascertained, sources close to the development said that Aditya Birla ARC is believed to be top bidder. Aditya Birla ARC is a joint venture between Aditya Birla Capital and Varde Partners. Earlier in June, the lenders to VIPL had restarted the company’s resolution process with its newly-appointed advisor, SBI Caps, inviting fresh bids. The bids were invited for the sale or one-time settlement of VIPL debt.

Three companies — Reliance Power, CFM Asset Reconstruction and National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL) — had earlier submitted suo moto bids for VIPL. SBI Caps will initiate the Swiss Challenge method and has fixed September 30 as the deadline to complete the process. CFM Asset Reconstruction had submitted a cash offer of Rs 1,220 crore and that of NARCL was `1,120 crore, while Reliance Power, another Anil Ambani group firm, had offered Rs 1,260 crore jointly with Varde Partners. Reliance Power’s offer was an upfront payment in all-cash.

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