Uday Kotak made a big mistake by exiting its JV with GS
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Mr. Uday is known for his shrewdness in the industry. He will not pay top USDs for GS stakes without a plan. In my personal opinion GS was keen to get larger pie or exit (as kotak has first refusal right). It is time for GS and smiler FIIs to larger bets. Mr. Kotak did not offered him so GS exited. Now GS is free to operate in India.
In short-term, it is definitely bad for Kotak but in long run, it may be beneficial to him. By doing this he .....
1. Gets larger control over entities and because of so he is doing restructuring of KMB. He may bring strategic investor/FII in investment banking entity.
2. Gets shares from GS at x, which he will sell at multi-x. So share price has become like entropy which always increases with time.
Remember Many times, Bharti Mittal regret selling it's stake too early. When execution is correct, buying back shares make more sense.
but yes, what minority shareholder gets from all these is a big question and will remain big question in such one-man show.
Remember, Promoter always think of himself first, second to customer and third to minority shareholder. Be it INFY or RIL.
Edited by vipul - 24/Jan/2007 at 1:38pm