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Traffic moves past the logo of the Adani Group installed at a roundabout on the ring road in Ahmedabad, India, February 2, 2023. Adani Ports said Deloitte, which does not audit any of the other six listed Adani group companies, had all the necessary information and its reason to quit was "not convincing." "The spotlight is back on Adani Group stocks and this time the auditor has raised concerns and resigned. The flagship Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) dropped 5.5%, while Adani Power (ADAN.NS), Adani Energy Solutions (ADAI.NS), Adani Wilmar (ADAW.NS), Adani Green Energy (ADNA.NS) and Adani Total Gas (ADAG.NS) declined between 3% and 5%. "In the near term, the Adani group stocks will likely remain under pressure and any re-rating will happen gradually when the water settles down."
Persons: Amit Dave, Hindenburg, Gautam Adani, Prashant Tapse, Adani, Avinash Gorakshakar, Rama Venkat, Savio D'Souza Organizations: Adani, REUTERS, Deloitte, Reuters, Adani Ports, Mehta, Adani Enterprises, Adani Energy Solutions, Energy, Profitmart Securities, Associates, BDO International, Thomson Locations: Ahmedabad, India, BENGALURU, Bengaluru
The Deloitte company logo is seen at their office in Gurugram, India, June 13, 2023. The auditor's resignation has brought fresh scrutiny of the financial management at Adani Group, led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. "The Audit Committee (of Adani Ports) was of the view that the grounds advanced by Deloitte for resignation as Statutory Auditor were not convincing or sufficient to warrant such a move," it said. Adani Ports has named MSKA & Associates, an independent member firm of BDO International, as its new auditor, it said in the statement. Deloitte in May first pointed to certain transactions flagged by Hindenburg in its report and gave only a qualified opinion related to Adani Ports, indicating concerns by a company's auditor.
Persons: Anushree, Gautam Adani, Hindenburg, Aditya Kalra, Ros Russell Organizations: Deloitte, REUTERS, U.S, Adani Group, GQG Partners, Sanghi Industries, Associates, BDO International, Thomson Locations: Gurugram, India, Adani Ports, Australia, New Delhi
REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File PhotoNEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Deloitte has decided to resign as auditor of India's Adani Ports (APSE.NS) amid concerns over certain transactions flagged in a report by Hindenburg, which the company did not wish to independently look into, a source with direct knowledge said. Deloitte in May had pointed to certain transactions flagged by the U.S. short-seller in its report and gave only a qualified opinion, which indicates concerns by a company's auditor. Deloitte's resignation comes after it asked Adani Ports to conduct an independent inquiry on related party transactions flagged by Hindenburg, to which the company did not agree, the source said. Deloitte and Adani Ports did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comments. Deloitte's decision to quit as Adani Ports' auditor might come as soon as Monday, the source added.
Persons: Anushree, Hindenburg, Adani, Gautam Adani, Aditya Kalra, Sethuraman, Varun Organizations: Deloitte, REUTERS, May, U.S, Adani, Bloomberg News, Sethuraman NR, Thomson Locations: Gurugram, India, India's Adani, New Delhi, Bengaluru
U.S. private equity group Bain Capital said its recent agreement to buy Adani Capital was aimed at tapping the "underbanked" segment of India's economy. In July, the Boston-based firm agreed to acquire 90% of Adani Capital and Adani Housing, buying out all of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's family's private stake in the company. The deal will provide a crucial lending perform to India's micro, small and medium enterprises — a market that is growing rapidly, said Barnaby Lyons, a partner and global co-head of Bain Capital Special Situations. "Just the structurally underbanked nature of the economy means that there is a ... need for innovative finance platforms like Adani Capital," he told CNBC's "Street Signs Asia" on Thursday. "This specific business sits in a segment — small lending to micro SMEs, the agricultural space and affordable housing, which actually benefits from some of the best demand supply dynamics."
Persons: Gautam Adani's, Barnaby Lyons, CNBC's, Lyons Organizations: Group, Bain Capital, Adani, Bain Locations: Mumbai, India, Boston
Workers transport tins of edible oil inside a storeroom of Adani Wilmar Ltd at Mundra, 375 km (233 miles) from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, June 10, 2009. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File PhotoAug 8 (Reuters) - India's Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) is exploring selling its stake in its consumer-staple joint venture with Wilmar International (WLIL.SI), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Deliberations are at an early stage and Adani Enterprises may decide to keep its stake, the report said. Adani Enterprises and Wilmar did not respond to Reuters requests for comment, while Adani Wilmar said it would not like to comment on the report. Last week, Adani Wilmar reported loss in the first quarter, hurt by a steep decline in edible oil prices.
Persons: Wilmar, Amit Dave, Adani, Gautam Adani, Adani Wilmar, Shubhendu Deshmukh, Shounak Dasgupta, Shilpi Majumdar Organizations: REUTERS, Adani Enterprises, Wilmar, Bloomberg, Adani, Hindenburg, Thomson Locations: Mundra, Indian, Ahmedabad, India, Bengaluru
A view shows Ambuja Cement bags, to be carried to a construction site, in a load carrier in Ahmedabad, India, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File PhotoNEW DELHI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - India's Ambuja Cements (ABUJ.NS) has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in operations of Sanghi Industries (SNGI.NS), two sources with direct knowledge said, a transaction that will add heft to cement operations of billionaire Gautam Adani's firm. The deal by Ambuja is likely to be announced as soon as Wednesday, the sources said, declining to be named because the decision is not public. One of the sources said the deal was done by considering Sanghi's enterprise value at 60 billion rupees ($729 million). Sanghi Cement declined to comment.
Persons: Amit Dave, Gautam Adani's, Ambuja, Adani, Aditya Kalra, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, Sanghi Industries, Economic, Sanghi, UltraTech, ACC Ltd, Adani Group, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ahmedabad, India, Gujarat
July 23 (Reuters) - U.S.-based investment firm Bain Capital said on Sunday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 90% of Adani Capital and Adani Housing, buying out all of the Adani family's private investments in the company. Gaurav Gupta will retain the remaining 10% stake in Adani Capital and will continue to serve as its Managing Director and CEO, Bain said. Adani Capital is the non-banking financial arm of the Adani group which started its lending operations in 2017. The transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, aims to position Adani Capital as a standalone company to expand lending, Bain said. Adani group stocks have recovered by around $50 billion since the Hindenburg-triggered stock rout early this year after Gautam Adani assured investors and repaid debt.
Persons: Gaurav Gupta, Bain, Gautam Adani, Gupta, Akanksha, Hugh Lawson, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Bain Capital, Adani, Hindenburg, Bain, Thomson Locations: Gautam, Bengaluru
Speaking at the Adani Enterprises' annual general meeting, Adani said the Hindenburg short-seller report was a "deliberate and malicious attempt aimed at damaging our reputation and generating profits through a short-term drive-down of our stock prices." "While the Securities and Exchange Board of India is still to submit its report, we remain confident of our governance and disclosure standards," billionaire Adani said. The short-seller report had also forced Adani Enterprises to shelve its key $2.5 billion share sale in February. Adani Enterprises shares climbed over 4% on Tuesday, while Adani Transmission (ADAI.NS) and Adani Green Energy (ADNA.NS) rose 4.7% and 5.7%, respectively. He also added that Adani Ports (APSE.NS), in the next 12-24 months, will commission India's largest transshipment hub.
Persons: Gautam Adani, Adani, Chris Thomas, Nallur, Savio D'Souza, Nivedita Organizations: U.S, Adani Enterprises, Securities and Exchange Board, Green Energy, Thomson Locations: BENGALURU, India, Bengaluru
Signage of Adani Group at Adani Defence and Aerospace booth during the Aero India 2023 at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, India, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. India's Adani Group is confident of its governance and disclosure standards after a top court panel found no lapses at the conglomerate, its chairman said on Tuesday, while detailing the fallout of a U.S. short-seller's scathing report that jolted its stocks. The panel report "confirmed the quality of our group's disclosures and found no instance of any breach," Adani Chairman Gautam Adani said in his first comments on the findings, in a shareholder address at Adani Enterprises' annual general meeting. "While SEBI is still to submit its report, we remain confident of our governance and disclosure standards, Adani said, referring to the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Adani Enterprises shares climbed over 4% on Tuesday.
Persons: India's, Gautam Adani, Adani, SEBI, Hindenburg Organizations: Adani Defence, Aerospace, Aero, Air Force, Adani Enterprises, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Adani Group Locations: Bengaluru, India
July 11 (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is considering a bid for the bankrupt coal-fired power plants belonging to industrialist Anil Ambani, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Ambani's Reliance Power Ltd (RPOL.NS) will also likely make an offer to win back control of the firm, the report added. Last week, Adani Green Energy Ltd (ADNA.NS) approved raising 123 billion rupees ($1.49 billion), while two other Adani group companies - Adani Transmission (ADAI.NS) and Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) - had in May outlined plans to raise funds totalling $2.57 billion. Adani's bids are aimed at strengthening the company's growing portfolio of coal power projects, the report said. Adani Enterprises or Reliance Power did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
Persons: Gautam Adani, Anil Ambani, Ambani, Adani, Jose Joseph, Kashish Tandon, Sohini Goswami Organizations: Bloomberg, Vidarbha Industries Power Ltd, Ambani's Reliance Power, Green Energy Ltd, Adani Enterprises, Hindenburg Research, Reliance, Thomson Locations: Vidarbha, Nagpur, Maharashtra, Bengaluru
Adani case threatens watchdog’s rising credibility
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Shritama Bose | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
In June the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the country’s markets regulator, disciplined two media tycoons for alleged wrongdoing and strengthened disclosure norms for foreign investors. Going all-in on the Adani case would entail working with other law enforcers, such as the Directorate of Enforcement and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. Unless Buch’s team pulls out all the stops, the regulator’s toughest test under her leadership so far is a threat to its rising credibility. The markets regulator on June 12 barred Zee Entertainment Enterprises CEO Punit Goenka and Chair Emeritus Subhash Chandra from holding key managerial positions in any listed company. In a separate order dated June 22 Sebi barred Eros group Managing Director Sunil Arjan Lulla and three group entities including Eros International Media from the securities market, citing accounting irregularities.
Persons: Puri, Gautam, Punit Goenka, Subhash Chandra, Breakingviews, Sebi, Sunil Arjan Lulla, Antony Currie, Katrina Hamlin Organizations: Reuters, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Eros International, Reuters Graphics Reuters, of Revenue Intelligence, Securities, Exchange Board, India, Eros International Media, Thomson Locations: MUMBAI
India's Adani Green to raise $1.5 bln in green energy push
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
July 6 (Reuters) - India's Adani Green Energy (ADNA.NS), controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani,said on Thursday it approved raising 123 billion rupees ($1.49 billion) through qualified institutional placement. The renewables company will use the funds to diversify its green energy supply in the country, Bloomberg had reported earlier in the day, citing sources familiar with the matter. The company plans to expand its green energy capacity by about 3 gigawatts this fiscal year, spending around 140 billion rupees ($1.70 billion), its finance chief Phuntsok Wangyal had said in May. In May, two other Adani group companies - Adani Transmission (ADAI.NS) and Adani Enterprise (ADEL.NS) - outlined plans to raise up to $2.57 billion after a U.S. short-seller's critical report in January battered investor confidence. Adani Energy's shares alone have halved in value so far this year.
Persons: Gautam Adani, Phuntsok Wangyal, Hindenburg, Adani, Adani Energy's, Indranil Sarkar, Urvi, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Eileen Soreng, Savio D'Souza Organizations: Energy, Bloomberg, Adani, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru
The 500 richest people added $852 billion to their collective fortunes in the first half of this year, per Bloomberg. The billionaires' wealth was boosted on the back of a broad market rally. Now worth $237 billion, Musk is the world's richest person — ahead of Frenchman Bernard Arnault, the CEO, and co-founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Musk and Arnault have been swapping positions as the world's richest person since late 2022. Indian tycoon Gautam Adani's fortune tanked by $60.2 billion this year, making him the biggest loser in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, , Mark Zuckerberg, Musk, Twitter —, Frenchman Bernard Arnault, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Zuckerberg, Gautam Adani's, Adani Organizations: Bloomberg, SpaceX, Service, Tech, Twitter, Hindenburg Research, Nasdaq
London CNN —India’s stock market is booming as investors take a chance on one of the few bright spots in a fragile global economy. The country’s stocks are so hot that India is now home to the world’s fourth most valuable equity market, behind only the United States, China and Japan. The total value of Indian equities has hit $3.5 trillion, greater than the value of Europe’s two biggest stock markets, in the UK and France, according to data from Refinitiv. Bright prospectsThe surge in Indian equities is a reflection of the strength and potential of the country’s economy, according to economists and fund managers. “The Indian equity market is the classic example of ‘expensive for a reason’,” he said.
Persons: ” Sher Mehta, ” Mehta, Sohini Kar, India Ashish Vaishnav, Pieter Elbers, Narendra Modi, Joe Biden, Apple, Lorenzo La, , Posta, La Posta, Gautam Adani Organizations: London CNN, United Kingdom’s FTSE, CAC, Virtuoso Economics, CNN, Monetary Fund, India, London School of Economics, Airbus, , Apple, Momentum Global Investment Management Locations: India, United States, China, Japan, Russia, Europe, France, Refinitiv, Mumbai, Washington, Germany
Indian ports will test tycoons' safe harbour
  + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Pranav Kiran | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
For the public market wannabe, it tees up a tricky benchmark in a global industry with few listed giants. JSW Infrastructure is closely aligned to India’s growth story. More than half of cargo handled at Indian ports last year was coal, petroleum oil and lubricants. JSW Infrastructure grew revenue 92% in the three years to March 2022, three times as fast as its rival. JSW Infrastructure, India’s second largest commercial ports operator by cargo handling capacity, in May filed for an initial public offering in Mumbai to raise up to 28 billion rupees ($340 million).
Persons: Gautam Adani, Sajjan Jindal, Adani, JSW, , Una Galani, Katrina Hamlin Organizations: Reuters, Hindenburg Research, Deloitte, JSW, Infrastructure, Deloitte Haskins, Securities and Exchange Board of India, JM Financial, Axis Bank, State Bank of India, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Thomson Locations: BENGALURU, Mumbai, Goa, Tamil Nadu, West, JSW
India regulator proposes curbs on derivative-linked share moves
  + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
MUMBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - India’s market regulator proposed measures to contain extreme price movements in shares on which futures and options trade, including longer trading suspensions and restricting price movements. The group collectively lost more than $100 billion in market value soon after the Hindenburg report was published. If shares are flagged for additional surveillance and monitoring should there be a daily limit for price moves, the regulator said. "From the perspective of market stability, risk management and protecting the interest of investors, it is desirable to have safeguards against such extreme price movements, SEBI said. Reporting by Jayshree P Upadhyay and M. Sriram; Editing by William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Shares of companies of the coal-to-airports conglomerate, controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani, were up between 1.2% to 7% in late trade on Friday in a largely flat wider market. The group's listed companies lost more than $100 billion in market value earlier this year after U.S.-based Hindenburg Research raised several governance concerns. The court on Wednesday granted SEBI additional time until Aug. 14 to complete its investigation into possible violation of securities law and regulatory disclosures by the Adani group. Beside flagship Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS), other group companies include edible oils business Adani Wilmar (ADAW.NS), Adani Ports (APSE.NS), Adani Green Energy (ADNA.NS), Adani Transmission (ADAI.NS), Adani Total Gas (ADAG.NS), Adani Power (ADAN.NS), broadcaster NDTV (NDTV.NS) and cement units ACC Ltd (ACC.NS) and Ambuja Cements (ABUJ.NS). The panel said, citing SEBI, there was evidence of a build-up in short positions on Adani group stocks ahead of the Hindenburg report.
MUMBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - An committee constituted by India's Supreme Court to oversee investigations into the Adani group said India's markets regulator had “drawn a blank” on alleged violations by the group’s overseas entities, according to a report seen by Reuters on Friday. But the expert committee said that there was evidence of a build-up in short positions on Adani group stocks ahead of a report by the U.S based short seller Hindenburg Group, according to the report, which has not been made public. It was not possible to conclude whether there has been regulatory failure regarding price manipulations, the committee said in the report. The court formed the panel to examine the regulatory framework and allegations levelled against billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate. In January, U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research raised several governance concerns around the Adani group, alleging improper use of tax havens and stock manipulation by the ports-to-energy conglomerate.
MUMBAI, May 17 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the country's market regulator additional time till August 14 to complete its investigation into possible violation of securities law and regulatory disclosures by the Adani group. Hindenburg Research had raised several governance concerns around the Adani group, leading to a loss of more than $100 billion in the market capitalisation of companies in the group founded by billionaire Gautam Adani. Following this, the Supreme Court had asked SEBI to probe some of the allegations made and submit a report to a court-appointed panel. Adani group companies are being probed for violation of this law. The Supreme Court directed the market regulator to place on record its findings so far relating to the investigation on violation of public float by the Adani group.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in a filing, said it has approached 11 overseas regulators for information relating to whether the Adani group has violated any norms regarding its publicly available shares. India's Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from SEBI to give it an additional six months to complete its probe into the Adani group. However, the Supreme Court, in oral arguments, said that it was inclined to give a three-month extension. Oral arguments do not necessarily match the final court order, which will likely be given on Monday. Ahead of that order, SEBI, in its filing, reiterated that the Adani group's transactions highlighted by Hindenburg for violating Indian laws are highly complex and included many sub-transactions across numerous jurisdictions.
Two Adani Group firms to raise up to $2.57 billion from the market
  + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Signage of Adani Group at company's gas station in Ahmedabad, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Two Adani group companies including the Indian conglomerate's flagship firm announced plans on Saturday to raise up to $2.57 billion from the market, months after a short-seller report battered investor confidence and drove share prices down. India's Adani Transmission said its board approved a plan to raise up to 85 billion rupees ($1.0 billion) from the stock market. Adani Enterprise said in a filing to exchanges that its board had approved plans to raise up to 125 billion Indian rupees ($1.53 billion) through similar modes. A planned $2.5 billion share sale by Adani Enterprise fell through in the wake of the scathing short-seller report.
The investment firm controlled by the billionaire activist investor Carl C. Icahn has fielded questions from federal prosecutors about its management and operations, according to a securities filing made on Wednesday. On May 3, federal prosecutors in Manhattan requested documents from Mr. Icahn and his firm just one day after his publicly traded company, Icahn Enterprises, became a target of Hindenburg Research, the short-seller firm that has made its name in recent years by taking on the Indian tycoon Gautam Adani and the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. News of the inquiry was the latest setback for Mr. Icahn, who is best known for targeting publicly traded companies and their chief executives and pressuring management to make changes. Short sellers profit when stock prices fall, and shares of Icahn Enterprises have fallen nearly 40 percent since Hindenburg Research released a report last week, accusing the company of running “Ponzi-like economic structures.” On Wednesday, the stock fell about 15 percent on news of the federal inquiry.
Geopolitics is shrinking India’s risk premium
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Una Galani | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
They are lured by a country whose potential as an alternative investment destination to China increasingly outweighs the local challenges of doing business. India’s $3 trillion economy is forecast to grow by 6.5% this fiscal year, continuing to outpace the rest of the world. Executives and investors also see a business-friendly government that is likely to remain in power for the next half-decade. Morgan Stanley analysts and strategists expect India to become the world’s third-largest economy and stock market before the end of the decade. The India risk premium is rapidly disappearing.
Short sellers haven't profited significantly from Hindenburg Research's recent report against Icahn Enterprises. That's because Wall Street investors remain hesitant to place bets against the billionaire owner Carl Icahn, Bloomberg reported. Short sellers have made just $9 million in mark-to-market profit, per S3 Partners data. Hindenburg also alleged that the company is "using money taken in from new investors to pay out dividends to old investors." The short seller's report on Gautam Adani's company shaved tens of billions off of its market cap and dealt a huge blow to the billionaire's net worth.
Over nearly a half-century, Carl Icahn has shaken up Wall Street as a corporate raider and activist shareholder, making corporate titans bow down to his demands and change their business strategies. But on Tuesday, his publicly traded company, Icahn Enterprises, became a target of Hindenburg Research, the short seller firm that has made its name in recent years by taking on the Indian tycoon Gautam Adani and the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Hindenburg accused Icahn Enterprises of being overvalued. The company trades well above its net asset value, unlike similar financial vehicles run by William A. Ackman and Daniel S. Loeb. “Icahn has been using money taken in from new investors to pay out dividends to old investors,” Hindenburg wrote in a public report.
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