Reliance sells unit to former associate company, in test of Sebi's related party transaction rules
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Reliance Industries Ltd’s recent sale of a second-level step-down subsidiary to a little-known company may test the limits of regulation on related-party transactions even while technically keeping to the rules, said legal and governance experts.On 13 April, Reliance Retail Ltd sold its subsidiary, Reliance Projects & Property Management Services Ltd (RPPMSL), to Jaipur Enclave Pvt. Ltd for ₹ ₹274 crore, according to a stock exchange filing.The sale consideration is small compared to the scale of the sold unit.
RPPMSL, set up in 2019, reported ₹379 crore in profit on ₹9,323 crore revenue in the year ended March 2025, according to the company’s financials. Purchaser Jaipur Enclave had zero revenues and a loss of ₹1.92 lakh the same fiscal with cash and cash equivalents of ₹4.41 lakh.
After the transaction, RPPMSL ceased to be a subsidiary of Reliance.Privately held Reliance Retail is owned by Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, which, in turn, is owned by Reliance Industries, the country’s largest and most valuable firm, with a market cap of ₹18.8 trillion.This was not a related-party transaction, according to Reliance’s disclosures, because the buyer was not part of the company's promoter group.However, Reliance’s stock exchange disclosure did not mention the rationale for the sale of a profitable unit to a company with zero revenues in FY25. Secondly, the prior association of the buyer company with Reliance, shared corporate infrastructure, and the presence of some Reliance employees on Jaipur Enclave’s board test the related party transactions (RPT) rules of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, said experts.Reliance Industries did not respond to queries on whether the transaction was
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