Engineering major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Monday mounted a hostile takeover bid for Bengaluru-headquartered Mindtree, with a multipronged strategy to buy around a 67 per cent controlling stake in the IT company for about Rs 10,733 crore.

As the first step, L&T entered into a deal to purchase the 20.32 per cent stake of Mindtree’s single-largest investor, V G Siddhartha, at Rs 980 per share in an all-cash transaction, which translates into Rs 3,269 crore.

Mumbai: Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro Ltd would spend up to 70 billion rupees (USD 1.02 billion) in a hostile bid to buy IT services company Mindtree Ltd, the Times of India (TOI) reported citing sources directly involved with the matter.

L&T will buy out Mindtree’s largest shareholder VG Siddhartha and companies in which he is a promoter, following which an open offer will be sent to the public shareholders of Mindtree, according to the report published on Monday.

We had downgraded L&T Infotech (LTI) post Q3FY19 results (Limited catalysts for re-rating) given client-specific issues, peak margins and near full valuation. Stock is since down ~9%, which appropriately captures our concerns. NIFTY IT index is up 4% in comparison. We also see it less likely for any stake acquisition in Mindtree, if at all, to happen from LTI’s balance sheet. As a result, we upgrade the stock to ‘Buy’, with a revised target price of rS 1,905 based on 18x FY21E EPS.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro were up 4 per cent to Rs 1,403 on the BSE on Tuesday, after the company said its power transmission & distribution business has bagged a number of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) orders in India and abroad.

At 10:43 am; L&T was the largest gainer among the frontline benchmarks, the Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex. The benchmark indices were up 1.2 per cent each. A combined 2.74 million equity shares changed hands on both the exchanges.

L&T Finance Holdings on Thursday announced early closure of its bond issue following a 4.5 times oversubscription, raising a little over Rs 2,228 crore.

The issue was opened on March 6 and was scheduled to close on March 20. The base size of the issue was Rs 500 crore, with an option to retain over-subscription up to Rs 1,000 crore.

Infrastructure giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Thursday said its construction arm has bagged "large" contracts from multiple clients in the domestic market.

The engineering and construction company, however, did not provide the exact value of the contract; but as per its project classification, the value of the contracts were in "large" category which is in the range of Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 crore.

L&T Infotech is likely to finalise acquiring Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha’s 20.41% stake in Mindtree as early as this week for a price close to `975/ share, which is higher than the price offered by KKR at about `925/share, a source aware of the matter told FE. Mindtree’s shares closed Tuesday’s session 1.59% down at `916.50 on the BSE.

Infrastructure giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Tuesday said the water and effluent treatment business of its construction arm has bagged “major” projects in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Odisha. The engineering and construction company, however, did not provide the exact value of the contract; but as per its project classification, the value of the contracts was in “major” category which is in the range of Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000 crore.

Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Friday said it will seek the assistance of an external expert to review the bribery charges relating to the construction of Cognizant’s Chennai campus.

In an announcement to NSE on Friday, L&T said that during the Audit Committee meeting held on 27th February 2019, the "management presented all details of the company's construction contracts with CTS, including particulars of development relating to the recent settlement between CTS and SEC and the ongoing proceedings before Department of Justice, USA (DOJ) In this connection,

MUMBAI: Non-banking financial company L&T Finance is planning to raise up to ₹1,500 crore through non-convertible debenture issues in three tranches.

The base size of the issue, which is opening on March 6 and closing on 20, is ₹500 crore, with an option to retain over-subscription up to ₹1,000 crore, company said Thursday.

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