Integration plan for Fidelity MF in place: L&T's Deosthalee

“We have prepared a detailed integration plan. It has been jointly prepared by Fidelity and L&T Finance, so we already have a plan in place. Large part of the existing team will be available to us. As far as equity fund management team is concerned, they have a worldwide equity business and therefore they would like to retain that. However, it is available to us so long as the integration process is completed to their satisfaction as well as to our satisfaction that is very important,” he told CNBC-TV18 in an interview.

Refusing to comment on the transaction timeline, Deosthalee said, it will all depend on the regulatory approvals etc. "We will try to do it at the earliest. It is in the interest of both the organisation to complete the transaction. That doesn’t mean that the integration will be completed by that time that will depend on satisfaction of both the parties."