Anil Agarwal is inching closer to taking his Indian unit private as a sweetened offer to buy back 17.5% of the shares in Vedanta Ltd. drew in bids from more than half the holders.
Minority investors offered about 58% of the 651 million shares Vedanta Resources Ltd. is seeking to buy back, exchange data showed at 3:30 p.m. in Mumbai on Wednesday, the last day of the open offer. Vedanta Resources, which owns a little more than half of the Mumbai-listed company, is seeking to buy the shares from investors to take its holding closer to the 90% it requires before it can delist the stock.
Agarwal is looking to take full control of the company by buying back shares after investors thwarted an attempt to delist Vedanta last year. He sweetened the offer price by about 47% last month to entice more public shareholders to sell their stock.
