Reliance likely to make bid for RCom and its related companies today
Business
News:
Having asked for a 10-day extension from a Resolution Professional,
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance group is expected to make a bid for his
brother Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCom) and its
related companies on Monday.
The
companies are up for grabs as going concerns from the Anil Ambani
stable under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) process. They
include RCom, Reliance Telecom (which has the spectrum), and Reliance
Telecom Infrastructure which houses the tower and fibre assets. Rcom
also has subsidiaries which control its real estate and data centre
businesses. The bids close on Monday and it is expected that the
committee of creditors will open them on the same day for
discussions.
The
structure of how the bid will be made is not clear as, under the
regulatory rules, a bid by Reliance Jio (which is not a listed
entity) acquiring RCom (a listed entity) would require the former to
merge the latter. Yet that is clearly not acceptable to the group
which is looking at coming out with a separate IPO for Jio. An e-mail
to Jio elicited no response.
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