Power Finance Corporation turns down Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s Rs 20,000 crore fundraising plan 

State-run Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) has decided in direction of extending a mortgage to Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a excessive official said, throwing into doubt the infrastructure conglomerate’s plans to refinance debt value spherical 200 billion rupees ($2.4 billion). 

“We have decided not to go ahead with sanctioning of the loan of Shapoorji Pallonji,” Chairman and Managing Director Parminder Chopra knowledgeable analysts in a reputation on November 8. She added that PFC had achieved due diligence and situated it was a model new sector for the government-backed lender to fund. 

“Ultimately, the board decided not to go ahead with the loan of around Rs 20,000 core,” she knowledgeable Bloomberg News on November 9. 

Business Today was unable to substantiate the occasion independently.

The spokesperson added that the group has started exploring completely different deal constructions, bearing in mind PFC’s solutions, along with onboarding additional consortium lenders to take ahead this deal or alternatively consummate an similar address completely different swimming swimming pools of worldwide capital. 

With PFC declining to lend, SP Group will now have to hunt out completely different strategies to repay the debt of extreme yielding bond consumers like Ares SSG, Farallon Capital, David Kemper and completely different house HNIs, who had bought the bonds, as per a report in Mint. 

The group had reached out to PFC for as a lot as Rs 15,000 crore, Bloomberg had reported earlier citing sources. 

In June ultimate 12 months, SP Group entity Goswami Infratech raised Rs 14,300 crore by way of rupee-denominated zero-coupon non-convertible debentures (NCDs) from a gaggle of worldwide consumers, along with Cerberus Capital, Varde Partners, Canyon Capital, Davidson Kempner, and present lenders Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund and Ares SSG. 

Founded by Pallonji Mistry in 1865, the SP Group is definitely considered one of India’s oldest diversified industrial conglomerates and has a presence all through sectors just like precise property, constructing, infrastructure, photo voltaic vitality know-how and allied suppliers for the oil and gasoline sector amongst others. The group has had shut ties with the Tata Group.