{"id":324377,"date":"2020-01-28T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=324377"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:12:02","slug":"merchant-bankers-decline-to-help-cil-with-due-diligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/merchant-bankers-decline-to-help-cil-with-due-diligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchant bankers decline to help CIL with due diligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Coal IndiaNSE -1.94 %\u2019s foreign acquisitions plan has hit a roadblock with all top merchant bankers refusing to offer consultancy or carry out due-diligence of assets shortlisted by the firm.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely to delay the company\u2019s foreign ventures since it will now have to look for second rung bankers ready to offer services to the coal sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoal is increasingly being considered a dirty fuel that adds to greenhouse effects and global warming,\u201d a Coal India executive said. \u201cIt prompted large financial groups to exit the sector following heavy pressure from environment groups. This is likely to inordinately delay foreign ventures since it will now have to search for second rung regional bankers who would be ready to offer consultancy despite global pressure&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Coal IndiaNSE -1.94 %\u2019s foreign acquisitions plan has hit a roadblock with all top merchant bankers refusing to offer consultancy or carry out due-diligence of assets shortlisted by the firm. This is likely to delay the company\u2019s foreign ventures since it will now have to look for second rung bankers ready to offer services to the coal sector. \u201cCoal is increasingly being considered a dirty fuel that adds to greenhouse effects and global warming,\u201d a Coal India executive said. \u201cIt prompted large financial groups to exit the sector following heavy pressure from environment groups. This is likely to inordinately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}