Piramal pushes ₹650 cr in hospitality segment

Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (PCHFL)
Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (PCHFL), recently announced an investment of ₹650 crore in Gurgaon-based hotel building player SAMHI Hotels. PCHFL, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Piramal Enterprises, said the structured financing will allow SAMHI to refinance existing lenders across three assets including the Courtyard and Fairfield by Marriott in Bengaluru, the Sheraton in Hyderabad, and Hyatt Regency in Pune. In the recent past, PCHFL had invested ₹600 crore in Gurgaon-based Vatika Group for their Westin Gurgaon and the Westin Sohna properties, and ₹600 crore in Advantage Raheja Group for their JW Marriott, Bengaluru and Crowne Plaza, Pune properties. The partnership is for three hotels where it is refinancing the existing loans. The refinancing will free up a lot of cash for 2018, 2019 and 2020, said founder of SAMHI, Ashish Jakhanwala, adding that the company has interesting opportunities emerging for acquisition in the hospitality space and this will improve its internal accruals which will help pursue the growth opportunities.

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