HDFC set to raise Rs 11K cr to buy health insurer

MUMBAI: HDFC has licensed a preferential issue of stocks value Rs 11,104 crore to five investors; GIC of Singapore, OMERS Administration (a Canadian pension fund), KKR, Carmignac Group, and Premji Invest. The loan massive has said that it's having a look to shop for out a medical insurance corporate in conjunction with its subsidiary HDFC Ergo General Insurance and plans to go with the flow a car to bought wired real estate projects. Most of the preferential issue finances (Rs 8,500 crore) will move in to keeping up its stake in HDFC Bank, which is floating a Rs 24,000 crore fairness issue on its own.

A committee of directors which licensed the fund raising also recommended the issue of fairness stocks beneath a Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP) basis for an quantity not exceeding Rs 1,896 crore. A QIP must be completed inside of 12 months from the date of shareholders' approval in keeping with Sebi norms.


The lion's percentage of the funding within the preferential issue (47 in keeping with cent) will come from GIC Singapore via its affiliate Waverly. The Singapore government fund will select up 3.01 crore stocks representing nearly 1.8 in keeping with cent of the expanded fairness base with an funding of Rs five,200 crore. OMERS Administration Corporation, the administrator of the 401-k plan for Ontario's municipal staff (OMERS), Canada will get 1 crore stocks representing. 6 in keeping with cent of the diluted fairness capital for Rs 1726 crore. Silverview Investments Pte Ltd. (an affiliate of worldwide funding company KKR) will invest Rs 1600 crore whilst Carmignac Group, France (represented via five group entities has chosen to take a position as regards to Rs 1578 crore. Both teams have picked up as regards to zero.five in keeping with cent of HDFC's expanded fairness through the recent issue of stocks. Premji Invest will likely be setting up as regards to Rs 1,000 crore


"The Corporation is also exploring inorganic opportunities in the health insurance sector in conjunction with its subsidiary, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited and is evaluating opportunities in the acquisition and resolution of stressed assets in the real estate sector" HDFC said in a remark. Besides this HDFC may even want capital to sponsor finances it has set as much as spend money on the fairness and mezzanine debt of affordable housing projects, improve capital necessities of HDFC Bank and different subsidiaries and capitalise on natural and inorganic enlargement alternatives within the affordable housing finance area, the remark said.
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