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The
Company
Promethean India plc is an investment
company which intends to generate returns for its shareholders by investing through
the Group in businesses that are established or operating in India in special
situations.
Investing
Strategy
The Group will invest in both private and public businesses
and across the small, mid and large-cap range of companies. The Investment Manager
will actively manage a concentrated portfolio of investments. The Group will
be a value and growth orientated investor, targeting opportunities in the areas
of domestic growth plays, international expansion opportunities and restructuring
opportunities, where there is a clear ability for the team to add value by various
methods, including by virtue of its network, operating knowledge, ability to secure
local licences, and find high quality management where required.
The directors of the company are experienced company executives who are well positioned
to supervise the investment manager in the investment decision making process
and all necessary due diligence.
The
Directors, all of whom are non-executive, are as follows:
Sir
Peter Burt (Chairman) (Age 63)
Sir Peter Burt started his career
with Hewlett Packard in California. Prior to that he was a Thouron scholar at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where he completed an MBA.
Sir Peter Burt spent most of his career with Bank of Scotland where he became
Chief General Manager and Chairman of the Management Board in 1988, later becoming
Group CEO. Following the merger with Halifax he became Deputy Chairman in 2001
of HBOS plc. He retired from HBOS plc in January 2003. He was formerly a
non-executive director of Shell Transport and Trading plc, of Royal Dutch Shell
plc and is the former non-executive chairman of ITV plc. He is also a non-executive
director and chairman of Promethean plc, a former adviser to Apax Partners, and
also a director of several other companies.
Frank
Hancock (Age 45)
Frank Hancock has had around 20 years experience
as an emerging markets investment banker in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe,
and for the past 11 years, in India. Frank currently heads corporate finance for
ABN AMRO in India where he is responsible for the M&A advisory and equity
capital markets activities of the bank in that country. During his 7 years
at ABN AMRO, Frank has worked on numerous transactions in the public and private
sectors in India. These have included leading the team that advised the government
of India on the US$3 bn restructuring of New Delhi and Mumbai airports, numerous
other M&A transactions, and many capital markets deals, including the US$500m
convertible issue of Housing Development Finance Corporation in July 2005 (the
largest ever such issue out of India at that time). Prior to joining ABN
AMRO, Frank worked for 11 years with S.G. Warburg, first of all in its Overseas
Advisory department, where he worked on large privatisations and debt restructurings
in Poland, Nigeria, Bulgaria, and other emerging markets, and latterly in India,
where he ran Warburg's corporate finance business. Before joining S.G. Warburg,
Frank worked for 2 years in the Export and Project Finance Department of Morgan
Grenfell. Frank has MAs in Classics from Christ Church, Oxford, and Arabic
Studies from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
Elizabeth
Tansell (Age 45)
Elizabeth Tansell is a chartered accountant and
has 20 years' experience in the fund administration sector. She joined Rawlinson
& Hunter, an international firm of Chartered Accountants in 1990 and in 1995
became a partner responsible for the firms fund administration business. In 1999,
Elizabeth was appointed managing director, a role which she continued in until
2004 when assets under administration had grown to approximately US$2.5 billion.
In November 2004, together with Keith Corkill she established Chamberlain Fund
Services Limited an independent third party fund administrator based in the Isle
of Man. Elizabeth is a director of a number of offshore funds investing in a variety
of investment instruments and geographical locations.
James
N. Hauslein (Age 48)
Mr. Hauslein is currently Managing Director
of Hauslein & Company, Inc., a private equity firm and was previously Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut International, Inc. From 1987 to 2001
Mr. Hauslein was a principal shareholder and from 1991-2001 served as Chairman
of the Board of Sunglass Hut. Sunglass Hut was acquired by an investment group
including Mr. Hauslein in 1987, and grew from $23 million in sales in fiscal 1986
to $680 million in fiscal 2000. The Luxottica Group (NYSE: LUX) acquired Sunglass
Hut (NASDAQ: RAYS) in April 2001 for over $680 million in cash. As part of his
private equity investment Mr. Hauslein served on the Board of Directors of Crunch
Fitness (a chain of 18 fitness clubs in 5 states which was acquired by Bally’s
Total Fitness (NYSE) in December 2001), and currently serves on the Board of Closer
Healthcare, Inc, Interstate Connections, Inc, and Freedom Acquisition Holdings,
Inc. (AMEX: FRH.U) a $528 million general purpose SPAC. Mr. Hauslein was
previously a partner of the private equity firm of Kidd, Kamm & Company, Inc.
Mr. Hauslein received his MBA in 1984, with Distinction, from Cornell University’s
Johnson Graduate School of Management, and he received a Bachelor of Science Degree,
in Chemical Engineering, from Cornell University in May 1981. Mr. Hauslein also
serveds on a number of other boards.
Nick
Agarwal (Age 39)
Nick Agarwal has had around 15 years’ experience
as an investment banker and investment manager in the United States, Europe and
Eastern Europe. Nick currently works at Magnetar Capital, a multi-billion dollar
multi-strategy hedge fund, where he originates and executes privately structured
credit and equity investments. Prior to joining Magnetar Capital, Nick worked
most recently as an investment banker at Banc of America Securities and J.P. Morgan
Securities, where he completed numerous leveraged finance, equity capital market
and merger and acquisition advisory transactions for private equity firms. Nick
has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a
BA in Economics from Amherst College.
Board of Directors’ Responsibilities
The Directors
have overall responsibility for the Company’s activities. The Directors
are responsible, inter alia, for monitoring the performance of and for
appointing, supervising, directing, and, if necessary, replacing the Company’s
service providers. The Directors recognise the importance of sound corporate
governance and the value of the Combined Code, and they will take appropriate
measures to ensure that the Company complies with the Combined Code to the extent
considered appropriate for a company of its size and nature of business.
Country
of Incorporation
Isle of Man (the
rights of shareholders may therefore be different from the rights of shareholders
in a UK incorporated company).
Main
country of Operation
India
Click
here
for Promethean India's current constitutional documents.
Click
here
for the latest report and accounts.
Number
of Ordinary Shares in Issue: 50,000,000
| Significant Shareholders | |
| Promethean Investments (General
Partner) Limited | 19.99% |
| Vidacus Nominees Limited | 16.09% |
| Allsec Nominees Limited | 15.00% |
| EGI – Private Equity II,
L.L.C. | 15.00% |
| Bank Leumi ( Switzerland ) | 6.00% |
| NCB Broking Nominees | 4.00% |
| | |
| Shares not in public hands | 0.00% |
Click
here
for Promethean India's recent admission document.
List
of advisors:
Nominated
Adviser Seymour Pierce Limited 20
Old Bailey London EC4M 7EN | Legal
Advisers to the Company (as to Indian law) AZB &
Partners F-40, N.D.S.E Part – 1 New Delhi 110 049 India
|
Company
Secretary and Registered Office Elizabeth Tansell 3rd Floor,
Exchange House 54-62 Athol Street Douglas Isle of Man IM1 1JD | Investment
Adviser Promethean India Advisors Private Limited 22, Site IV,
Sahibabad 201010 Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh India |
Auditors
Grant Thornton 19/21 Circular Road Douglas Isle of Man IM99 2BE | Legal
Advisers to the Company (as to English and US law) Lovells
Atlantic House Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2FG |
Legal
Advisers to the Company (as to Mauritian law) Moorari
Gujadhur Madun Gujadhur Chambers First Floor, Fon Sing Building Pope
Hennessy Street Port Louis Mauritius | Manager
Promethean 2 Limited 3rd Floor, Exchange House 54-62 Athol Street
Douglas Isle of Man IM1 1JD |
Legal
Adviser to the Nominated Adviser, Broker and the
Placing Agent Wedlake Bell 52 Bedford Row London
WC1R 4LR | Investment
Manager Promethean Investments LLP 23A Conduit Street London
W1S 2XS |
Legal
Advisers to the Company (as to Isle of Man law) Cains
Advocates Limited 15-19 Athol Street Douglas Isle of Man IM1 1LB
| Placing
Agent and Broker Fairfax I.S. PLC 46 Berkeley Square Mayfair
London W1J 5AT |