Mergers & acquisitions started off on a strong footing, hitting a four-year high at $30.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022, bucking the global trend where deal-making fell sharply, says a report. Deal activity grew by 5.6 per cent in value terms in January-March 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2021, making it the highest first-quarter period since 2018 when it was $31.1 billion. In volume terms, the M&A activity grew 29.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2022, making it the best-ever quarterly number, according to the M&A numbers collated by Refinitiv, an LSEG business, which is among the world's largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure. M&As involving domestic companies stood at $23.7 billion, down 8.3 per cent on year.
Shares of Zomato on Friday zoomed nearly 53 per cent in its debut trade against its issue price of Rs 76. The stock made its debut at Rs 115, reflecting a huge gain of 51.31 per cent against the issue price on the BSE. It then hit a high of Rs 138, a jump of 81.57 per cent.
'The domestic scenario is much better than earlier, demonstrated in the March quarter earnings.'
'Waiting for a market correction and optimising entry time in the markets will be akin to missing the woods for the trees.'
The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Thursday said it has unearthed yet another IPO scam in the public issue of shares of Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd.
The legal battle between Byju's and lenders in the US on the edtech firm's $1.2-billion term loan B (TLB), along with the company skipping an interest payment of $40 million on the loan, has made the other investor Davidson Kempner Capital Management, "extremely concerned", according to the people familiar with the matter. They said Byju's has closed a Rs 2,000-crore ($250 million) round from the US-based investment firm and it may stop or consider slowing down the flow of various tranches of that capital to the company. It may also decide not to provide any new funding or participate in any such round in the future, the sources said.
A public interest litigation filed in the Bombay high court has demanded a probe into the way some companies lure investors into subscribing to their IPOs by giving false information about their financial position and prospects.
Godrej Properties, part of the Godrej group, may float an initial public offer of about Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) in the next three months, said a banker close to the development. The company plans to sell 9.4 million equity shares in the IPO, which will constitute 13.5 per cent paid up capital of the company, the draft red herring prospectus filed by it showed. The company also plans a pre-IPO placement of 2.4 million shares with investors, the company said.
Deepak Satwalekar, managing director and CEO, HDFC Standard Life Insurance, confirmed that the company would be hitting the capital market very soon. Satwalekar said that the company was planning an IPO and its nitty gritty was yet to be sorted out.
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Adani Enterprises' proposed Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) fundraising via fresh issue of equity shares through a public offer would be the fourth biggest by Indian companies, excluding banks and non-banking financial companies.
After a recent fall in profit, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank announced that the Japanese tech investor will look at dramatic cost-cutting. Before he does that, investments in India for calendar year 2022 (CY22) will fall radically, observed sources in the know. Last year, the company had invested around $3.2-3.5 billion in the Indian start-up ecosystem - almost 10 per cent of the total investment the sector received. For CY22, the investments may not even touch $1 billion.
'India has a lot of potential, not just in commercial aspects, but also in hiring of people and sourcing of products.'
India's first-ever listed new-age company, Zomato, has seen a meteoric rise in its stock price in calendar year 2023 (CY23), rising 70.75 per cent during this period as compared to 9.5 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex. From being the second worst hit new-age stock in CY22, crashing 57 per cent on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the stock hit the Rs 100-mark for the first time since January 2022 in late August. The stellar run in the stock - only after PB Fintech and One97 Communications-owned Paytm, analysts say, may be coming to an end, at least for now.
Atherstone Capital Markets has come up with India IPO Index, which is an index of companies listed on the stock exchanges.
Among top losers, Reliance Industries (RIL) sank over 4 per cent, after the company shelved a proposed deal to sell a 20 per cent stake in its oil refinery and petrochemical business to Saudi Aramco for $15 billion. Other laggards included Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, NTPC, SBI and Titan.
Telecom R&D outsourcing company Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd will hit the capital market with an initial public offer on August 11 for raising upto Rs 130 crore
The trading has come to a halt on speculations that the company's IPO is unlikely to hit the market by the second week of December.
Considering the disvestment mop-up target of Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion) for financial year 2012-13, the government is thinking of optimising the collection from stake sales in central public sector enterprises (CPSEs).
Market regulator Sebi on Friday said that shares owned by ex-employees, allotted through ESOPs (Employee Stock Options), cannot be sold for a period of one year pursuant to an IPO by the company.
The final guidelines should be there in 3-4 months.
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Grey market deals, which are viewed as a sign of market prosperity by investors, are done on the expectation that the shares will outperform the IPO process when they list on the market.
State-owned Telcommunications Consultants India Ltd is planning to go for an initial public offering for offloading 25 per cent stake in domestic market, subject to government nod.
The country's leading fund manager UTI Mutual Fund is likely to enter the capital market with its public issue by the end of current fiscal and has already got the approval from its board for the IPO.
Markets regulator Sebi will put in place a framework for the Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA) facility for investors in secondary market trading, similar to the existing system for IPO investors. Sebi's board approved the proposal during its meeting here on Wednesday. Through the proposed facility, which would be optional for investors as well as stock brokers, Sebi aims to bring in "efficiency in the secondary market ecosystem by allowing usage of same blocked amount towards margin and settlement obligations.
Yes Bank is likely to hit the market in the second week of May with its Initial Public Offer of 7 crore (70 million) shares to raise up to Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to Escorts Ltd and chairman Rajan Nanda on a contempt petition filed by his estranged brother Anil Nanda.
Recently, ex-Google executive Punit Soni joined FLipkart.
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