All stories by Dev Chatterjee
Voting rights on 34% of Wipro shares are still with Premji family
Rediff.com15 Mar 2019The voting rights with the promoter will ensure the interests of the promoter family as well as minority shareholders are protected in future, said corporate governance advocates and corporate lawyers.
Patanjali Ayurved revises offer for bankrupt Ruchi Soya
Rediff.com13 Mar 2019The revised offer will mean the lenders will have to write off 60 per cent of their dues.
More trouble for Anil Ambani as lenders may not bail out RCom
Rediff.com23 Feb 2019In a meeting on Thursday evening, the RCom management, led by CEO Punit Garg, requested the bank representatives to release Rs 260 crore it received as I-T refund so that it could repay the dues to Ericsson.
ICICI Bank board draws flak for giving clean chit to Chanda Kochhar
Rediff.com31 Jan 2019A corporate lawyer said that this is the biggest failure of corporate governance in this country. He pointed out that American investors can even take the bank to court for giving false statements to stock exchanges and even file class action suits. Some even questioned how RBI overlooked Kochhar's misdeed.
Jet Air lenders likely to write off up to 25% of loans
Rediff.com18 Jan 2019Under the resolution plan, the lenders would end up having a sizable portion of shares in the airline, if their boards of directors agree to convert part of their debt into equity.
All you want to know about Angel tax
Rediff.com15 Jan 2019What is worrying is that this year, angel investments and seed funding deals have fallen by 40 per cent, ringing alarm bells in the start-up community in India.
Wadias to continue legal battle for Jinnah House
Rediff.com14 Jan 2019Dina Wadia, Jinnah's only daughter and Nusli Wadia's late mother, moved the high court in 2007 to regain control of the estate.
Why Kumar Mangalam Birla is the undisputed king of India's cement sector
Rediff.com4 Dec 2018The acquisition of the debt-laden Binani has catapulted Birla-owned UltraTech to the top spot in India, leaving it free to turn attention to overseas market
Anil Ambani inducts younger son into RInfra board
Rediff.com26 Nov 2018According to insiders, the induction of Jai Anshul would coincide with the birthday of the late patriarch of Reliance group, Dhirubhai Ambani, in the last week of December.
Loans of IL&FS arm gets red-flagged by auditor
Rediff.com17 Oct 2018Based on internal evaluation and legal opinion, the management was of the opinion that the company has the ability to ultimately recover the aforesaid ICDs
IL&FS requires Rs 30,000 crore to get back in business
Rediff.com5 Oct 2018Will have to take impairment of Rs 15,000 crore before recovering a single rupee from its arms
Aditya Birla, US firm Vrde Partners in $1-billion JV for stressed assets
Rediff.com30 Aug 2018Vrde currently manages about $14 billion globally, and has invested nearly $500 million in India in the past five years
Adani group, RIL, Tata lead race to buy bankrupt firms
Rediff.com29 Aug 2018Analysts said with more power sector companies referred to the NCLT by banks, large companies would be at an advantage.
The UK businessman saving Indian companies from insolvency
Rediff.com12 May 2018Sanjeev Gupta of Liberty House, a global supplier of metals and engineering solutions, who has emerged front-runner for a number of stressed companies, plans to fund a string of companies through a mix of equity and debt.
Tata Sons asks Sivasankaran to pay back Rs 700 crore loan
Rediff.com9 May 2018Siva group defaulted on payment in 2016 and is also facing CBI investigation
Company set up by Kochhar bros failed to repay Rs 30 crore loans
Rediff.com19 Apr 2018Kochhar brothers stepped down from the board of Credential Finance by 2009. While Deepak Kochhar started NuPower Renewables, Rajiv set up Avista Advisory Group
Rajiv Kochhar's Avista Advisory earned Rs 300 crore in the last four years
Rediff.com18 Apr 2018Avista helped some companies restructure their debt in such a way that overseas investors had to take a steep haircut
Deepak Kochhar, the man in the muddle
Rediff.com10 Apr 2018How Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar find themselves in a huge controversy.
Deepak Kochhar, the man in the muddle
Rediff.com10 Apr 2018How Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar find themselves in a huge controversy.
Videocon paid ICICI Bank dues worth Rs 1000 cr till Dec last year
Rediff.com6 Apr 2018NuPower will return loan with interest to consumer durables major by 2021