Greenply Industries Ltd’s demerger of laminate business was approved by the Gauhati High Court on October 31, 2014, under Sections 100 to 104 and 391 to 394 of the Companies Act, 1956 between Greenply Industries Limited...
IDFC Demerges Financial Unit Into IDFC Bank
Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC) on 30 October 2014, informed stock exchanges that it received the board’s approval to demerge its financial undertaking into a wholly owned step-down...
Mastek Demerges Insurance Business
IT Company Mastek Limited, a BSE-NSE Listed Company, had demerged its insurance products and service business into a separate listed company. Mastek is an IT solutions player with global operations providing new...
The Zen And Art Of Demerger
Demergers were an American invention of the 1920’s and became common since the 1950’s. The corporate demerger is one of the several ways through which a firm may divest a division and improve its focus. A...
Strides Arcolab Buys Generic Business Of Bafna
Strides Arcolab Limited (Strides) has bought a majority stake of Bafna Pharmaceuticals Limited’s India branded generics business Raricap (enterprise value) of Rs 65 crore. Strides paid Rs 48.1 crore in cash and balance...
Zomato Acquires Menumania
ZOMATO: Deepinder Goyal, a post-graduate of IIT Delhi, started Foodiebay.com as a small exercise to help his colleagues negotiate huge stacks of menu cards with ease. Foodiebay officially started in July 2008...
Creating Value For Shareholder
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...
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...
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...
CIE Automotive And Mahindra Group Tie Up
Mahindra Group has entered into a global alliance with Spain’s CIE Automotive S.A. The agreement will come under Systech Sector, which happens to be the Mahindra group automotive component, and CIE Automotive (also...