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Valiant Partners Cuts Stake In Pipavav Defence

By : Paritosh Gajjar | 14 December 2012
Industry : Defense
Category : Capital Market

Valiant Mauritius Partners FDI Limited sold part stake in Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering by offloading 90 lakh shares or around 1.28% stake.

The Mauritius based PE firm which held 2.54 Cr shares or 3.62% stake as on September 2012 sold the shares for R95.68 per share raising over R86.11 Cr.

The shares were bought by multiple FIs which included Keynote Capitals, Abhishek Finance & Investment, Mudra Securities and Aashka Holdings.

Recently in July Neelanchal Mercantile Pvt. Ltd. bought 1.10% stake in Pipavav for R44.85 Cr along with addition by the promoter group of 0.72%. During that Small Cap World Fund had cut its stake by 0.98% from its earlier 4.89% held and currently has 2.65% stake as on September 2012.

In August, Swedish defence company Saab had signed a MoU for a strategic investment in Pipavav Defence worth around MSEK 250.

In June French defence player DCNS was planning to acquire a minority stake in Pipavav Defence for around R800 Cr after forming strategic partnership to build assets for the Indian Navy and Coast earlier and prior to that GIC was planning a stake purchase in the company.

In May LIC had put in R171 Cr by buying 2.15 Cr shares for R79.50 a piece. It now has 8.34%.

Pipavav Defence's business segments comprise of defence, offshore, marine and engineering and it has two units, one SEZ unit spread over around 95 hectares of land and another EOU spread over around 103.92 hectares of land.

Pipavav Defence on BSE



Valiant Mauritius had recently invested in Shriram Housing Finance, a subsidiary of Shriram City Union Finance in March. Shriram Housing had announced plans to raise R75 Cr from both PE investors and promoters by diluting 20-22% stake.

In the defence space, state owned Bharat Electronics had formed a JV with French defence firm Thales.

SREI Infrastructure Finance had earlier planned to launch a $150 Mn PE fund for defence and security sector last year in March and L&T had formed a JV with Europe’s Cassidian for defence electronics.

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  DEAL TRACKER FOR
DateTransactionTypeBuyerSize ($mn)
2013-02-01  Pipavav Defence - Stake Sale IPO / Offerings    412.84 
2012-12-14  Pipavav Defence and Offshore - Valiant Mauritius Partners Capital Market  Aashka Holdings
Abhishek Finance & Investment
Mudra Securities
Keynote Capital Ltd.
 
15.88 
2012-08-24  Saab - Pipavav Defence Private Equity  Saab
 
2012-07-30  Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering - Neelanchal Mercantile Capital Market  Neelanchal Mercantile Private Limited
 
8.11 
2012-07-30  Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering - Small Cap World Fund (Part Exit) Capital Market    7.02 
2012-06-22  Pipavav Defence - DCNS Private Equity  DCNS S.A (France)
 
2012-05-03  Pipavav Defence - LIC Capital Market  Life Insurance Corporation of India
 
32.18 
2011-11-22  Pipavav Defence - Fund Raising Private Equity  Strategic Investors
 
171.56 
2011-09-06  Pipavav Defence - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Private Equity  Utpal Sheth
Rekha Jhunjhunwala
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
 
17.75 
2010-10-22  Pipavav Shipyard - Trinity Capital (Stake Sale) Private Equity    36.97 
2010-10-19  Pipavav Shipyard - Citadel (Stake Sale) Private Equity    23.36 
2010-10-07  Pipavav Shipyard - Trinity Capital (Stake Sale). Private Equity    13.09 
2010-09-30  Pipavav Shipyard - Public (Exchange)(PE) Private Equity  Public (Exchange)
 
16.01 
2010-06-30  Pipavav Shipyard - Public (Exchange)(PE) Private Equity  Public (Exchange)
 
0.24 
2010-06-18  Pipavav Shipyard - Reliance Industries M&A  Reliance Industries Limited
 
372.27 
2010-04-16  Pipavav Shipyard - Outbound Acquisition M&A  Pipavav Defence And Offshore Engineering Company Limited
 
100.00 
2010-04-08  Pipavav Shipyard - Valiant Fund Private Equity  Valecha Group
Valiant Mauritius Partners Offshore
 
40.00 
2010-03-31  Pipavav Shipyard - Public (Exchange)(PE) Private Equity  Public (Exchange)
 
15.47 
2010-03-29  Punj Lloyd - Pipavav Shipyard - SKIL Infra, SKIL Shipyard M&A  SKIL Shipyard Holdings Private Limited
SKIL Infrastructure Limited
 
139.67 
2010-01-15  2i Capital-Pipavav Shipyard Capital Market    12.04 
2009-12-31  Pipavav Shipyard - Public (Exchange)(PE) Private Equity  Public (Exchange)
 
12.62 
2009-09-18  Pipavav Shipyard - IPO IPO / Offerings    102.87 
2009-09-15  Pipavav Shipyard- Anchor Investment IPO / Offerings    18.87 
2008-04-17  Pipavav Shipyard - Cadell Weaving Mill Private Equity  Cadell Weaving Mills Private Limited
 
0.13 
2008-01-31  Pipavav Shipyard - JM Fin. MF, JM Fin. Products Private Equity  JM Financial Products Limited
JM Financial Asset Management Private Limited
 
1.02 
2008-01-11  Pipavav Shipyard - Kundan Infra M&A  Kundan Infra Private Limited
 
2.12 
2008-01-10  Pipavav Shipyard - Galleon Special, Deutsche Bank Private Equity  Deutsche Bank AG
Galleon Special Opportunities Master Fund SPC Limited
 
8.14 
2008-01-09  Pipavav Shipyard - Manz Retail Pvt. M&A  Manz Retail Private Limited
 
2.04 
2007-12-24  Pipavav Shipyard - JM Infocom & Property Private Equity  JM Infocom & Property Investment Pvt ltd
 
0.10 
2007-12-24  Pipavav Shipyard - Merrill Lynch Int'l M&A  Merrill Lynch International
 
8.09 
2007-12-06  Pipavav Shipyard - Blackstone Advisors (The Asia Offshore) Private Equity  Blackstone Advisors India Private Limited
 
0.61 
2007-11-30  Pipavav Shipyard - India Fund Inc Private Equity  India Fund Inc
 
9.48 
2007-11-07  Pipavav shipyard - IL&FS Trust Company Private Equity  IL&FS Trust Company Limited
 
13.18 
2007-11-07  Pipavav Shipyard - IDBI Private Equity  IDBI Bank Limited
 
4.46 
2007-11-07  Pipavav Shipyard - SembCorp Industries Ltd. M&A  SembCorp Industries Limited
 
20.05 
2007-09-30  Pipavav Shipyard - Citadel Private Equity  Citadel Investment Group, LLC.
 
26.04 
2007-09-17  Pipavav Shipyard - Punj Lloyd Ltd. M&A  Punj Lloyd Limited
 
86.30 
2007-06-25  Pipavav Shipyard - Sneha Metals Private Equity  Sneha Metals Private Limited
 
6.13 
2007-05-28  Pipavav Shipyard - UTI(ULIP) Private Equity  UTI Mutual Fund
 
1.11 
2007-03-29  Pipavav Shipyard - Jacob Ballas Private Equity  New York Life Investment Management India Fund II
 
15.30 
2007-03-08  Pipavav Shipyard - Trikona Trinity Capital Round 1 Private Equity  Trinity Capital PLC
 
25.82 
2007-02-08  Pipavav Shipyard-2i Capital PCC Private Equity  2i Capital PCC
 
22.67 
2006-09-14  Pipavav Shipyard - Exim Bank Private Equity  Exim Bank of India
 
3.73 
2006-03-17  Grevek-Pipavav Shipyard - IL&FS Private Equity    10.79 
2005-10-13  Pipavav Shipyard - Grevek Investment Private Equity    1.00 
1999-10-26  Pipavav Shipyard - Montana Infrastructure(PE) Private Equity  Montana Infrastructure Limited
 
1.04 
 
 
  Profiles

Company

NamePromotersOfficeCompetitorWebsite
Pipavav Defence And Offshore Engineering Company Limited  SKIL Infrastructure Limited   Pipavav Port, Post Ucchaya, Via Rajula   ABG Shipyard Limited
Bharati Shipyard Limited  
www.pipavavshipyard.com
Keynote Capital Ltd.       
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