Indiabulls Real Estate to raise up to Rs 500 crore via debentures

New Delhi: Indiabulls Real Estate plans to raise up to Rs 500 crore through the issue of non-convertible debentures on private placement basis.

The promoters had yesterday sold 3.3 crore shares of the company for about Rs 662.83 crore through an open market transactions.

"The company proposes to issue secured, redeemable, non- convertible debentures of face value Rs 10 lakh each aggregating Rs 500 crore, on a private placement basis...," the Mumbai-based developer said in a regulatory filing.

Its shareholders had approved this proposal through a special resolution passed at annual general meeting held in September last year.

The issue will open on June 28 and the proposed amount could be raised in one or more tranches.

The company had announced yesterday that its promoter group entity IBREL IBL Scheme Trust sold 3.3 crore shares realised about Rs 662.83 crore at an average price of about Rs 200.85 per share.

At the end of the last fiscal, IBREL IBL held 4.25 crore shares, representing 8.89 percent stake in Indiabulls realty unit. Promoters held 50.35 percent stake in the company as on March 31, 2017.

The sale proceeds would be used for meeting company's funding requirements for its ongoing businesses and general corporate purposes or any other purposes as may be approved by its board, the realty firm had said.