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Ericsson wins plea to push Anil Ambani’s RCom into insolvency

Bloomberg An Indian tribunal ordered billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd. be placed under insolvency proceedings, jeopardising the phone company’s proposed $3.7 billion asset sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday accepted a petition from the Indian unit of network-equipment maker Ericsson AB, which is seeking to recover 11.6 billion ...

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SoftBank eyes another $100bn for Fund 2.0

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son, the founder and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., is already thinking about his next $100 billion venture — a version 2.0 of the world’s biggest technology fund, according to people familiar with the matter. The Japanese entrepreneur has held preliminary discussions with investors about committing to a second fund as early as 2019, the people ...

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‘Look to India for returns, not China’s Belt-and-Road’

Bloomberg Some of Asia’s biggest infrastructure investors are seeing plenty of opportunities in India. In China’s mammoth Belt-and-Road initiative, however, not so much. India is a key market for Macquarie Group thanks to strong economic growth and state asset sales, said Frank Kwok, co-head of Asia Pacific at Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets. Hence its recent purchase of nine toll-roads ...

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