The Delaware court also directed the Byju’s founder to provide a full accounting of the missing $533 million moved through multiple entities.
In November 2021, the company raised $1.2 billion Term Loan B through its US financing vehicle, Byju’s Alpha. The money was intended to fuel large international acquisitions and rapid scaling. By mid-2023, lenders alleged major breaches of the credit agreement.
TLPL owns around 25.7 percent stake in AESL, which is now going for a rights issue after the Supreme Court on November 3, 2025, gave a go-ahead, rejecting the petition filed by Glas Trust
UpGrad’s bid is focused on higher-education assets such as Great Learning — not the K12 business, sources told Moneycontrol; the move comes as the company is also in talks to acquire Unacademy as part of a wider consolidation strategy
The tribunal held that Aakash’s Board is entitled to raise capital to meet its business requirements and cannot be prevented from doing so merely because one of its shareholders is undergoing Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP).
GLAS Trust, which owns over 90 per cent of the voting rights in the Committee of Creditors of Byju’s, had earlier filed an application before the appellate tribunal against the previous NCLT order, where the NCLAT had declined to pass a stay order.
The appellate tribunal set aside the insolvency proceedings against Byju's on August 2, 2024 after approving dues settlement with the BCCI, which had entered into a Team Sponsor Agreement with the cricket body in 2019
A third US subsidiary, educational gaming firm Osmo, is also up for sale but is yet to find a buyer
GLAS Trust, which is representing Byju's US-based creditor, has the authority to represent merely 17.38 per cent of the voting rights of the consortium of term loan providers, he submitted.
Byju’s cloud service suspension affects app functionality, blocks access to paid content, and limits full website availability across platforms
'If we were sitting on $533 million, this would not be the situation, right? We would have been fighting in the courts. We would have thrown money at lawyers,' Byju's co-founder Divya Gokulnath said.
Once India’s most valued startup, BYJU’S has faced a dramatic fall from its peak valuation of $22 billion in 2022, brought down by mounting debt, regulatory scrutiny, and failed global expansion plans.
With cash burn down, Munjal said that Unacademy is steering clear of acquisition-led growth – calling it a failed strategy in edtech – to focus instead on core business profitability, product innovation, and disciplined execution
A two-member Chennai bench of the NCLAT upheld the directions passed by the NCLT
Eruditus is the largest operational edtech company in India by way of revenue. Its revenue is 1.9-times larger than Noida-based PhysicsWallah (PW), and nearly twice as much as Ronnie Screwvala-led UpGrad.
Once a favorite among global investors and valued at $22 billion in 2022, Byju's is now embroiled in a legal dispute with lenders over $1 billion in unpaid debts in both the US and India courts.
Byju’s lenders, including Glas Trust, also objected, stating that Aakash remains a crucial asset for the troubled edtech firm and that any change to its shareholding could affect their interests.
Founder Jagdish Chand Chaudhary, a minority shareholder in the Byju’s subsidiary, has joined other minority shareholders, including the Glas Trust, to contest changes to the Articles of Association
Judge John T Dorsey of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware found that the defendants engaged in a deliberate effort to misappropriate funds meant to repay Byju’s lenders.
Raveendran also alleged that he, along with several of his employees, has received a document with “conclusive evidence” of criminal collusion between EY India, US-based lender GLAS Trust, and the interim resolution professional (IRP)
The latest development also paves the way for Byju’s to push through the AoA amendments that were previously blocked by an NCLT stay following minority shareholder's (Singapore Topco) plea.
Byju's suspended Director Riju Raveendran had sought to keep his Rs 158 crore settlement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) outside the purview of its Committee of Creditors (CoC), in a bid to evade insolvency
The tribunal also canceled the reconstitution of the Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Byju’s, which had been carried out by the Interim Resolution Professional on August 31, 2024. In this reconstitution, Srivastava had excluded Glas Trust and Aditya Birla Finance.
The tribunal has asked the Committee of Creditors, which now includes ousted creditors Glas Trust and Aditya Birla Finance, to take a call on appointing a new RP
When debt holders tried to recover over half a billion dollars from Byju’s US accounts, they came up empty after it was whisked out of their reach through a Miami hedge fund, records show.