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Piramal Gets Waiver on Debt Contract After Offering to Pay Early
Piramal Enterprises Ltd., a company controlled by Indian billionaire Ajay Piramal, has offered to repay a 15 billion rupee ($208 million) debt to
Standard Chartered Plc. early after getting a waiver on a covenant, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The flagship company of the group -- which runs non-bank financiers and a drug maker -- hasn’t furnished additional security, as mandated, for the 9.5% notes maturing in January, the people said, asking not to be identified citing rules. Piramal has offered to repay the debt using money raised from a preference issue to Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, and from other sources, the people said.
Piramal Enterprises’ shares gained for a second day, paring the year-to-date
loss to 25%.
Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd. and
Piramal Realty Ltd. had their ratings cut this year with assessors citing heightened refinancing risk for property developers for the move.
Piramal Enterprises, which is in the process of raising about $770 million through a rights offer, and debentures to shore up finances, is also in discussions for a fresh bridge loan from Standard Chartered once the debt is repaid using its holdings in the
Shriram group as collateral, one of the people said.
“We assure you that the funding arrangements for repayment of the NCDs are already in place and there is absolutely no concern on the same,” the company said in the email, referring to the non-convertible debentures.