Mumbai, India, 13th February 2015: Suzlon Group, worlds fifth largest* wind turbine
manufacturer today announced signing of definitive agreements with Dilip Shanghvi Family and
Associates (DSA) for equity investments of Rs. 1,800 crs in Suzlon Energy Limited. Post
allotment, DSA shareholding will be 23% shares (based on current shareholding), while the
Tanti Family will hold 24% shares. Management control remains with Tanti Family by virtue of
pooling arrangement for voting.
Commenting on his family investment in Suzlon, Mr. Dilip Shanghvi said: This financial
investment is in sync with the Prime Ministers long term vision and immense potential of the
renewable energy market. While we believe Suzlon has the potential to emerge as a global
leader in the renewable energy space from India, it will take substantial and sustained effort on
part of the management team to achieve a significant operating performance improvement.
We have strong faith in the leadership of Tulsibhai to achieve this and will continue as financial
investors.
Mr. Sudhir Valia, part of DSA, said: Despite having strong fundamentals, during last couple of
years Suzlons performance was impacted by macro headwinds and liquidity constraints. We
believe that our financial investment through equity infusion and facilitating working capital will
enable the company to tap large opportunities in the renewable energy sector. We will be
making an Open Offer as per regulatory requirement.
Mr Tulsi Tanti, Chairman Suzlon Group, said: All the strategic initiatives are extremely
crucial and will pave the way for our growth. These bold steps will strengthen our capital
structure permanently, enabling significant deleveraging and liquidity to ramp up volumes
rapidly. With our market leadership, technology strength, successful project execution and best
in class service, Suzlon is best placed to capitalize on the opportunities offered by therenewable sector.
We are convinced that the support from Dilipbhai Shanghvi and Family will
help in creating a long term sustainable value for our stakeholders.
Suzlon is poised to enter FY16 with a strong liquidity position to tap the opportunity available in
India as well as key growth markets like USA, China, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and Mexico.
Amit Agarwal, CFO of Suzlon Energy Limited, commented: These initiatives will result in
sizeable debt reduction, savings on interest expense and will provide the necessary liquidity to
boost operations. Our efforts resulted in positive EBIT in this quarter in addition to positive
EBITDA for the 4th consecutive quarter. We continue to focus on execution of our order book.
Long term strategic initiatives to bolster business growth and ensuring sustainability:
The above transactions are subject to closing conditions, including corporate and other
regulatory approvals.
Advisors: Inga Capital Private Limited acted as a transaction advisor to DSA. P. H.
Bathiya & Associates are legal advisors to DSA and Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A
Shroff & Co. are legal advisors to Suzlon. The transaction was facilitated by Antique
Stock Broking Limited.