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India’s Birla weighs selling insurance brokerage unit

  Bloomberg Aditya Birla Capital Ltd, controlled by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla, is considering selling its insurance brokerage unit as the group seeks to restructure its financial services business, people familiar with the matter said. The publicly-traded company has held talks with potential buyers about a sale of Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers Ltd as it failed to scale up the ...

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Byju’s lenders seek quicker part-payment of $1.2b loan

  Bloomberg A group of creditors to Byju’s, India’s most valuable startup, has asked the company to immediately repay part of a $1.2 billion loan they recently bought into as they renegotiate terms of the debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The lenders have hired Houlihan Lokey Inc to advise them on amending covenants after the edtech titan ...

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GIC-backed unicorn in talks to acquire Foodpanda in Thailand

  Bloomberg Food delivery unicorn Line Man Wongnai is in talks to acquire Delivery Hero SE’s Foodpanda in Thailand as it plans for a stock-market debut in the next few years, according to people familiar with the discussions. Bangkok-based Line Man Wongnai considered a deal at around $100 million at one point, but the value is likely to have changed ...

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