special purpose vehicles
When the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his maiden budget on July 10 this year, there was a lot of expectation in the real estate and infrastructure sector as they were hoping that the new government will take measures to give a boost to these ailing sectors. This year’s budget saw the amendments enacted in [...] Continue Reading »
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared the proposed acquisition of Larsen & Toubro (L & T) Infrastructure Development Projects’ securities by foreign venture capital investor CPP Investment Board Singaporean Holdings 1. This is a very good news for L & T and there is a wave of cheer among the top brass of L & [...] Continue Reading »
Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) can invest in a project either directly or through special-purpose vehicles, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said on Sunday. However, in most of the cases of public-private partnership projects, such investments are only allowed through SPVs. The different sponsors of an InvIT need to collectively hold at least [...] Continue Reading »
On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued “draft guidelines,” with the evident aim of perking up the infrastructure sector. The “draft guidelines” will essentially give the banks the ability to provide partial credit enhancements to bonds which have been for financing infrastructure projects by companies/Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs). According to the “draft guidelines” [...] Continue Reading »
According to the section 185 of the Companies Act 2013, a company cannot give loans to (or provide security on a loan taken by) a person in whom its director is interested. Such a director could mean a director of a lending company or its holding firm, or a partner or relative of any such [...] Continue Reading »
Banks can provide infrastructure lending to special purpose vehicles (SPV) on the basis of the guarantees or security provided by a holding company. The Corporate Affairs Ministry has clarified that for loans made by a bank to a subsidiary company, a holding company can (without any limit) give guarantee or provide security. Bankers say that [...] Continue Reading »
