SREI Venture Capital is raising a $250 mn infrastructure-focused fund by April 2007. The company plans to tap the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) or the main UK market. This will be SREI’s first overseas fund-raising, with the company’s contribution at 2-5%. The new fund will focus on the entire gambit of infrastructure projects in India right from oil & gas to roads to power projects.
SREI Venture Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of SREI Infrastructure Finance, which is into financing infrastructure equipment, infrastructure projects and renewable energy projects. SREI Infrastructure manages assets worth of around Rs. 4500 crores.
This is the second time that SREI is attempting to raise a Rs. 1000 crore-plus fund after it launched the India Global Competitive Fund (IGCF) in mid-2005; so far, the fund has raised around $80 mn (Rs. 360 crores) and is in the process of raising further funds.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), DEG, Germany (a financial institution owned by the Government of Germany), FMO, the Netherlands (financial institution owned by the Government of the Netherlands) and BIO (financial institution owned by the Government of Belgium) are among the large stakeholders in the company.
Read the Business Standard article.
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