Piramal Realty announced a leading global private equity firm 'Warburg Pincus' will invest INR 1800 cr for a minority stake in the company
REAL ESTATE
Warburg Pincus
to invest INR 1800 cr in Piramal Realty
This will be amongst the largest FDI in
Real Estate sector in India
by Shrutee K/DNS
Mumbai, July
21, 2015: Piramal Realty, the real estate development arm
of Piramal Group, announced that an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a
leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, will
invest INR 1800 crore (US$284 million) for a minority
stake in the company. Founded in 2011, Piramal Realty is a Mumbai based developer that
has over 10 million square feet under development in prime areas of
Byculla, Thane, Worli, BKC and Mulund.
Commenting on the transaction,
Anand Piramal, Piramal Group's Executive Director, said "We are
proud to partner with one of the world's leading private equity firms to
build India’s most admired real estate company, admired not just for its
scale and profitability, but also for its impact on the lives of its customers
and the progress of our country.” The capital raised will be used to expand
Piramal Realty’s portfolio and acquire marquee land parcels in and
around Mumbai.
Niten Malhan,
Co-Head of India, Warburg Pincus stated “Warburg Pincus
invests in companies with high growth potential and believes that Piramal
Realty is best positioned to achieve leadership in one of the world's most
attractive real estate markets. Piramal Group's strengths such as its strong
values, its track record of creating long term value for stakeholders, its
trusted brand, its ability to recruit great people, its emphasis on customer
centricity and its reputation as strong deal makers are some of the reasons why
the firm chose to invest in Piramal Realty.“
Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Group added, “We are delighted to partner with Warburg Pincus for
a second time: the first was when they invested in
Piramal Healthcare in 1997, and now with Piramal Realty.
Warburg Pincus’ investment and expertise will raise the level of real estate in
India to international standards, as it has done in other industries such as
telecom, financial services and pharmaceuticals.”
Piramal Realty aspires to be the gold standard in design, quality,
safety and customer centricity in both residential and commercial real estate.
It works with some of the world's leading architectural practices such as KPF,
Fosters, SOM and Make and leading contractors such as L&T and Eversendai.
Its board includes Deepak Parekh (Chairman, HDFC), Nitin Nohria
(Dean, Harvard Business School), Robert Booth (former CEO, EMAAR) and Subbu Narayanswamy (Director,
RealEstate/Infrastructure practice, McKinsey). Piramal Realty’s developments
while being cutting edge and contemporary, will also embrace a more intuitive
definition of luxury, which celebrates nature, greenery, space, light, ventilation,
art, culture and community living.
About Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus is a leading global private equity firm
focused on growth investing. The firm has more than US$35 billion in assets
under management. The firm’s active portfolio of more than 120 companies is
highly diversified by stage, sector andgeography. Warburg Pincus is an
experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with
sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 14 private equity
funds which have invested more than US$50 billion in over 720 companies in more
than 35 countries. The firm's past and current investments in India include
Ambuja Cements, Au Financiers, BhartiAirtel, Dainik Bhaskar,
Diligent Power, Capital First, Gangavaram Port, Havells, HDFC,
Kotak Mahindra Bank, KalyanJewellers,Lemontree Hotels, Max India, Metropolis Healthcare,
Piramal Healthcare, and Sintex. The firm is headquartered in New York with
offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg,
Mauritius, Mumbai, San Francisco, São Paulo and Shanghai. For more information,
visit www.warburgpincus.com.
About the Piramal Group
Piramal Group is one of India’s leading conglomerates with interests
in pharmaceuticals, financial services, information management, glass packaging
and real estate. It is founded by Ajay Piramal and has a market value in excess
of US$5billion. Driven by its core values of knowledge, action and care, the
group’s mission is ‘doing well and doing good’. Piramal Foundation, the
philanthropic arm, has initiatives in healthcare,
education, water and women empowerment across 19 states of
India.
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