DLF to list 5 Units

Real estate major DLF plans to raise $5 billion over the next three years by listing five of its business units, including DLF Homes, DLF Retail, DLF Hotels, DLF Utilities and DLF Infrastructure. There are no plans to further dilute equity in group flagship DLF. The eventual strategy is to make DLF a holding company with considerable equity stakes in the listed entities in addition to being an incubator for new businesses.

In all, the company is looking at a fund infusion of $10-12 billion in its various businesses over the next three years.The $5-billion group will raise the fund through domestic IPOs in addition to Singapore listing of DLF Assets (DAL)(Related story), the company which own the office space development and management business of the group. At present, the company is awaiting regulatory approvals for this IPO.All other business units of the company are expected to be listed in Indian capital markets only.

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DLF Assets to raise $1 bn from overseas listing

Billionaire real estate tycoon K P Singh, whose flagship firm DLF recently went public with India's largest IPO, is looking to list his another closely held group company DLF Assets with a one billion dollar issue.DLF Assets is expected to file for REIT (real estate investment trust) IPO in Singapore next month, the company sources said.

DLF Assets, which has been set up for holding completed commercial assets, is owned by DLF Ltd's promoters. It is independent of DLF Ltd. DAPL was set up for bidding along with other companies in potential assets sales by DLF Ltd.

DLF Assets Pvt Ltd (DAPL) had earlier received an investment of 400 million dollars and 200 million dollars from global investing firm D E Shaw and a fund sponsored by investment banking firm Lehman Brothers respectively.

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