CIE Automotive S.A. is a very large automotive conglomerate having its registered office in Spain and listed on Bilbao and Madrid stock exchange. Its group company Participaciones Internacionales Autometal Tres. S.L...
Thomas Cook’s Sterling Move
Billionaire investor Prem Watsa-backed Thomas Cook India had acquired vacation ownership Sterling Holiday Resorts for Rs 870 crore, marking its foray into the hospitality sector. For Thomas Cook, it was the...
DLF Back To Core
In order to hive off some non core business and pare debt, DLF concluded the sale of luxury hospitality chain Aman Resorts for an enterprise value of $358 million (approx Rs 2,230 crore). The country’s...
Apollo‐Cooper Deal: How It Collapsed
In June 2013, Apollo Tyre’s Limited announced that it would acquire Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.5 billion. But Copper decided first to terminate the deal...
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...
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...
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...