Fortis get shareholders' nod for selling 6.5 stake to GIC

ExpressIndia.com, 10 Jun 2010
Mumbai Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare today said its shareholders have approved selling 6.58 per cent stake in the company to Singapore-based private equity firm GIC for Rs 380 crore.
The stake sale has been carried through preferential allotment of 2.23 crore equity shares.
The company in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange said that its shareholders in an extra-ordinary general meeting held today approved the allotment of 2.23 crore equity shares of Rs 10 each at a premium of Rs 160 to Lathe Investment Pte Ltd, an affiliated investment vehicle of GIC Special Investment. Full Story