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L&T To Raise $600 Mn Through QIP

By : Deeshesh Chheda | 16 July 2010
Industry : Engineering

Larsen & Toubro is planning to raise upto $600 Mn to fund its various projects including a large metro rail network and setting up power plants. The funds will be raised in a year's time through QIP.

It has also planned a capex of Rs 2300 Cr this financial year of which major will be used for expansion.

L&T may win the bid to build the Rs 12,132 Cr Hyderabad Metro project for which it will initially invest about Rs 3,000-4,000 Cr.

Transaction Reference: ET


L&T is building 11 new manufacturing factories, including forging factories and is planning an investment of Rs 5,000-7,000 Cr in power generation projects in five years.

It will invest Rs 25,000 Cr by 2015 to set up 5,000 Mw power generation capacity.

It has formed JV with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Electric for production of turbine generators and boilers at Hazira, Gujarat. It has also signed agreements with global nuclear-energy companies such as Westinghouse Electric Company, GE Hitachi and Russian company Atomstroyexport for manufacturing nuclear reactors in India.

L&T is in talks with Strategic Ventuers Fund (Mauritius) to buy 5% stake in Astra Microwave which will increase its current stake from 9.79% to around 15%.

It is also planning to set up a $250 Mn (about Rs1,130 Cr) fund for investing in infrastructure projects in India. It was planning to launch a $1bn infrastruture fund in 2007, but the plan soon ran into trouble after global credit crisis.

L&T's order book stood at more than Rs 1 trillion ($21.9 bn) as on March 31, 2010.

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16/07/10  L&T - QIP IPO / Offerings  Looking For  600.00 
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