India: Edelweiss ARC, Kotak unit may buy Avantha’s $645m debt

India: Edelweiss ARC, Kotak unit may buy Avantha’s $645m debt

Nitin Jain, chief executive (global asset and wealth management) at Edelweiss. Photo: Mint

Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Co. and Kotak group company Phoenix ARC Pvt. Ltd are the top contenders to buy Rs4,300 crore of debt of Jhabua Power Ltd (JPL)—a unit of Avantha Power & Infrastructure Ltd—from a group of lenders led by Axis Bank, two people aware of the development said.

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