Despite the warrant conversion, the promoter group’s stake is below the 51.37% it held in the company on June 30, 2008. A close inspection of RIL’s shareholding pattern reveals considerable changes in the promoter group’s holding during the July-September quarter.
Promoters’ stake had gone down from 51.37% to 44.8% — representing a decline of 9.54 crore equity shares — between July 1 and September 30, 2008. After the warrant conversion, this has gone up to 49%.
During the September quarter, nearly 9.42 crore shares were transferred from the promoter group to various RIL subsidiaries and are now classified as public shareholding, but with non-voting shares.
Replying to questions on these transactions, an RIL spokesperson said: “Eight body corporates holding 9.42 crore treasury shares of RIL for the benefit of its shareholders, have since become subsidiaries of RIL.”
“As a result, these shares do not enjoy voting rights and cannot be classified under promoter group. The promoter group companies have not sold any RIL shares for subscribing to warrants,” the RIL spokesperson added.
The spokesperson also said that loans from RIL to these companies were converted to equity share capital. However, he said that he can’t elaborate on the events that triggered the transfer of ownership in these eight body corporates or the price at which they were transferred.
Source: Times Of India.
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