EduInfra – Emergence of a new asset class

  • EduInfra offers a promising 10 – 11% entry cap rate for annuity investors with rental escalations in the region of 3
    – 5%

  • Infrastructure classification allows for tax optimal exit through InvITs
  • Seller awareness needed – operators slowly moving towards asset light models; depth, but potential…

    Revamped Overseas Investment Regime (Part II) – Overseas Debt Investments Rationalized

    • Control threshold introduced for offshore debt – a shift of focus towards strategic growth
    • Offshore private credit and special situation funding now permitted
    • Debenture trustee’s introduced to encourage offshore funding to an Indian entity…

      Private Credit: Supreme Court holds that ownership of pledged shares remains with pledgor despite transfer to pledgee 

      • SC overrules a series of prior rulings which held that pledgee becomes the owner of pledged shares upon invocation.
      • SC holds that even though pledgee is recorded as beneficial owner upon invocation, pledgee only receives ‘special rights’ and not ‘ownership’ over pledged shares.
      • The term ‘actual sale’ means sale to a third party…

        SEBI Introduces Special Situation Funds: Opens doors for acquisition of stressed loans without ARC intermediation

        • Special Situation Funds (SSF) have been launched Category – 1 AIF for sophisticated investors
        • Offshore investors no longer have to rely on an Asset Reconstruction Company /
          Asset Reconstruction Trust framework to invest in stressed assets…