Rahul Guha, who currently serves as CEO of subsidiary Thyrocare and President of Operations at API, will take over from Siddharth Shah, the last remaining co-founder of the company, who will now assume the role of Vice Chairman.
The founder group cumulatively holds under 2 percent in API Holdings. Each of the five co-founders held between 0.20 percent to 0.30 percent stake in the company, data showed.
The online pharmacy was last valued at $5.6 billion in 2021, followed by nearly 90 percent decrease in its valuation amidst debt repayment related challenges.
The Manipal Group's family office had made a binding offer to invest up to Rs 1,300 crore in the online pharmacy
The Manipal Group family office may also secure a board seat at API Holdings and become its single largest shareholder.
US-based Neuberger Berman has reduced the fair values of API Holdings and Pine Labs by 21.6 percent and 39 percent, respectively, to $4.39 billion and $3.14 billion, the investor's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed.
The valuation of India’s largest online pharmacy PharmEasy has dropped to almost half its October 2021 $5.4 billion pre-IPO tag at $2.5-2.75 billion.
The rights issue is expected to open for a period of 30 days, starting from on or around the first week of September, API Holdings said.
The stock is trading at around Rs 76-78 and is valued at Rs 47,565 crore ($6.35 billion), which analysts feel is still expensive. In October, the firm was reportedly valued at $5.4 billion
Thyrocare is trailing peers Dr. Lal PathLabs and Metropolis Healthcare in non-COVID business recovery
These companies that got the nod were API Holdings Ltd, CMR Green Technologies Ltd and Wellness Forever Medicare Ltd.
Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Piramal Enterprises Limited, has forged a strategic partnership with API Holdings through its digital platform Retailio, a release said on Thursday.
PharmEasy parent API Holdings seeks to raise Rs 6,250 crore via fresh equity issuance.
API Holdings IPO Issue size is likely to be between Rs 6,000 crore and Rs 6,500 crore
Thyrocare has a lean cost structure. But compared to its major diagnostic peers, Thyrocare has lower on-ground (b2c) presence
The induction of Aditya Puri on the board and acquisition of Medlife is in the run up to the company's IPO. The former head of HDFC bank has been in demand in the corporate world, and will join the board of PNB Housing Finance as an investor nominee, while Strides Group’s Stelis Biopharma announced his appointment as a chairman of the board.
In its filing with the CCI, API Holding said it will use this financing to deepen its distribution network across India and build innovative technology-first products for affordable access to healthcare across India.
Medlife and its promoters will get a 19.59 percent stake in PharmEasy's parent company API Holdings for about $230 million, while PharmEasy holds the remaining 80 percent stake.