Drug firm Strides Arcolab Ltd has completed sale of its specialties division Agila Specialties Pvt Ltd to the US-based generic drug major Mylan Inc for up to $1.75 billion. However, the company has agreed to Mylan...
SPLIT & LIST: THE WAY AHEAD FOR CONGLOMERATES?
In last September’s edition we covered a topic “Conglomerates – Corporate Dinosaur: On their Way to Extinction?” where we discussed various reasons for decreasing number of conglomerates, one of them being increasing...
Mphasis Acquires Digital Risk
Mphasis (an HP Company) is said to have acquired Florida-based Digital Risk LLC. Digital Risk is one of the largest independent providers of Risk, Compliance and Transaction Management solutions to the United States...
The Multiple Paradox
The popularity of Multiples among investors is well known. But, recently this trend is catching up amongst executive/ managerial people as well. Some of the common valuation multiples frequently used are Price-to...
Antitrust laws- A Study
Antitrust laws play an important role in ensuring that corporate transactions such as Mergers & Acquisitions have the benefit of competitive prices and quality of goods and services. The antitrust laws accomplish...
Optimal Exit Strategy for a Business Owner
Exit Planning is a process involving developing and planning an optimum time to exit a business with the objective to achieve the maximum return out of the accumulated wealth made over the tenure of the business. I...
“Hamara Bajaj” or “Promoter’s Bajaj”?
We have studied the demerger scheme of Bajaj Auto Ltd., and in our view, it will create value only for the promoters, while the non-promoter interests have been conveniently ignored. In our opinion, the entire purpose...