Vedanta Resources Ltd.’s bond rose after the miner launched an offer for its India unit, its latest attempt aimed at simplifying a corporate structure that hinders the parent from easily accessing cash at subsidiaries.
The London-based company’s 2022 dollar note gained 1.9 cents on the dollar to about 92.4 cents, the highest since March, Bloomberg-compiled prices show. Vedanta Resources and its three units plan to buy as many as 371.75 million shares of Mumbai-based Vedanta Ltd. at 160 rupees each in a 59.48 billion rupee ($812 million) deal, according to an exchange filing Saturday.
If the entire offer is taken up by shareholders, Vedanta Group could increase its stake in the Indian unit by 10 percentage points to 65.11%.Shares in Vedanta Ltd. fell about 2% to 178.5 rupees.
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The latest offer shows the group’s continued keenness in streamlining its corporate layout. Increasing its holding in Vedanta Ltd. would allow Anil Agarwal’s debt heavy London-based holding company to access a larger piece of the dividends that the money-spinning business pays.
Vedanta Resources’s offer comes a month after it allayed investor concerns over its funding byraising $1 billion from a note sale, albeit at one of the highest yields for a dollar bond in Asia last year. Investors will closely watch the response to the open offer aftershareholders thwarted the group’s attempt at delistingVedanta Ltd. last year.
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