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July 28 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• Q1 CONSOL NET PROFIT 1.65 BILLION RUPEES

• Q1 CONSOL REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 14.98 BILLION RUPEES

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By Hudson Lockett

HONG KONG, July 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Leave it to an online bazaar to sell a creative financial swap. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba 9988.HK just raised $1.5 billion with a zero-coupon bond that can be exchanged for shares in its healthcare subsidiary if the unit’s stock price rises 35% from its pre-announcement close. Other Asian conglomerates will be keen to get in on the market.

Alibaba Health Information Technology 0241.HK, a $9.5 billion digital platform selling pharmaceuticals and medication tracking, has not paid off for investors. Its total return over the past five years has been negative 76%. Despite the terrible performance, its $260 billion parent company found a way to wring some value out of the business.

It’s a clever twist on a popular hedge fund plaything. Convertible bonds, where a company’s borrowing transforms into equity, have been booming worldwide. In Hong Kong, this year’s issuance of some $12 billion exceeds the 2024 tally by 70%, per Dealogic. Some of it includes exchangeable debt like Alibaba’s.

The twist is canny. Alibaba’s investment-grade credit rating provides some downside protection. At the same time, Alibaba Health’s shares, whose price has swung wildly from up 80% at one point this year to less than 30% now, dangle tempting upside from any fresh rally.

As a deal denominated in Hong Kong dollars, it’s also a timely beneficiary of the city's rock-bottom interest rates. The upshot is cheap funding for Alibaba’s artificial intelligence initiatives. Boss Eddie Wu recently unveiled new investments in Thailand, Mexico and South Korea as the company seeks to spend at least $53 billion on machine learning and cloud computing infrastructure by 2028.

Alibaba also structured the bond, due in seven years, so it has the power to keep control of the healthcare division. If the price reaches the designated threshold, the payout can be in shares, cash or a mix to ensure the parent’s stake stays well above 50%.

Hedge funds often seek out volatility and option value for their portfolios, implying that the continent’s other corporate labyrinths could make similar use of exchangeable bonds. IndianOil IOS.NS-Adani Gas ADAG.NS is already lining one up, according to Bloomberg. Alibaba tech rival Tencent 0700.HK seems like another potential candidate. Just as with e-commerce, there’s always something curiously tempting in the financial marketplace.

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Alibaba raised HK$12 billion ($1.5 billion) on July 4 from the sale of a zero-coupon exchangeable bond due 2032, which can be swapped for shares in listed subsidiary Alibaba Health Information Technology if its stock price rises 35%.

The deal caps more than $6 billion of exchangeable deals in Asia during the first half of 2025 and comes amid a surge of equity-linked debt issuance in Hong Kong of more than $12 billion this year, per Dealogic.

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June 25 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• ADANI TOTAL GAS LIMITED AND JIO-BP PARTNER TO ENHANCE QUALITY FUEL OFFERINGS

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• BOTH PARTNERS TO OFFER EACH OTHER'S FUELS ACROSS SELECT OUTLETS

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June 23 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• NSE: TO EXCLUDE F&O CONTRACTS ON 8 SECURITIES INCLUDING ADANI TOTAL GAS, JINDAL STAINLESS FROM AUG 29 ON EXPIRY OF EXISTING CONTRACTS

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June 3 (Reuters) - Shares of India's Adani Group firms fell between 1% and 2.5% on Tuesday, a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. prosecutors were probing whether Adani entities had imported Iranian LPG into India through their Mundra port.

An Adani spokesperson called the report "baseless and mischievous" in a statement, adding: "We are not aware of any investigation by U.S. authorities on this subject."

Shares in the group's flagship firm Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS opened 2.2% lower, while Adani Ports APSE.NS fell 2.5%. Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS, Adani Power ADAN.NS, Adani Green ADNA.NS and Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS were down between 1% and 2%.

India's benchmark Nifty 50 index .NSEI was down 0.4%, with Adani Enterprises and Adani Ports the top percentage losers.

The WSJ said it had found tankers travelling between the Gulf and billionaire Gautam Adani's Mundra port in western India exhibiting traits that experts say are common for ships evading sanctions.

Reuters could not independently verify the report and the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn did not respond to requests for comment.

Adani Ports has been the top gainer among Adani Group stocks so far this year, up 16%, while Adani Total has been the top loser, down 11%.

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May 5 (Reuters) - Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani met officials from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to seek dismissal of criminal charges in an overseas bribery probe, with a resolution possible in a month, Bloomberg News reported.

In November, U.S. authorities indicted Adani and his nephew, Sagar Adani, alleging they paid bribes to secure power supply contracts, and misled U.S. investors during fund raises there.

The U.S. financial regulator summoned the duo, alleging they misled investors on compliance during a $750 million Adani Green ADNA.NS bond sale in the United States.

The billionaire's aides are trying to make the case that his prosecution does not align with Trump's priorities and should be reconsidered, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The discussions began earlier this year and have picked up in recent weeks, with a resolution possible within a month if the momentum continues, the report said.

Adani Green, in a statement on Monday, reiterated it was not part of any proceedings, but it did not directly comment on the report about the meetings. It had recently said its review of the indictment found no non-compliance or irregularities.

The Justice Department and White House declined comment to Bloomberg on the report and did not respond to Reuters for comment outside business hours.

Adani Enterprises, the group's flagship firm, also did not respond to a request for comment. The group has previously denied any wrongdoing.

Shares of Adani Group's nine Indian listed companies rose between 1.7% and 10.5% on Monday, amid a 0.6% increase in the broader market.

The indictment has erased about $13 billion in market value from Adani Group's nine listed firms.

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April 28 (Reuters) - India's Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS, reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit on Monday, as a fall in allocated supply from the government led to higher gas purchase costs.

The company, a joint venture of Adani Group and French oil major TotalEnergies SE TTEF.PA, said its consolidated net profit fell about 8% to 1.55 billion rupees ($18.23 million) in the three months ended March 31.

The Indian government had cut cheaper gas supplies to city gas distributors like Adani Total Gas, citing lower output by producers in the country.

The allocation improved in January, the company had mentioned in its December earnings report. However, that remained lower on a year-on-year basis.

Adani Total Gas' natural gas costs rose 28%, leading to a 21% surge in its total expenses to 12.64 billion rupees.

However, demand for compressed natural gas (CNG) - which is Adani Total's biggest segment - remained higher due to the government's push to make cleaner-burning energy more accessible and cut vehicular pollution.

Its CNG volumes, which account for more-than-half of its total sales, grew 18% in the latest quarter, boosted by the addition of 42 new stations, across the country, on a standalone basis. The company currently operates 647 CNG stations.

Sales volume in its other vertical, piped natural gas (PNG), rose 5% to 87 million standard cubic meters of gas per day.

Its overall revenue from operations increased to 14.53 billion rupees from 12.58 billion rupees a year ago.

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NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - India's Adani Total has yet to conduct feasibility studies to double the capacity of its LNG terminal in Dhamra, Chief Executive Surjeet Singh Lamba told Reuters on Thursday, a year after the joint venture announced it was in the early stages of planning a possible expansion.

Lamba said the 5 million tons per annum (mtpa) LNG terminal on India's east coast, in which French energy giant TotalEnergies SE TTEF.PA has a 50% stake alongside the Adani Group, operated at an average utilisation rate of 25% in 2024.

Utilisation has since risen to about 50%, the CEO said. Usage has been low because the terminal has been unable to attract new customers after locking state-run firms Indian Oil Corp IOC.NS, and GAIL (India) Ltd GAIL.NS into 20-year take-or-pay contracts in 2023.

Lamba said the expansion was contingent on demand, and when asked about the potential for growth in LNG demand, he pointed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's target to more than double the share of natural gas to 15% of India's energy mix by 2030.

"It depends upon the requirement of the users, as in, when we get some business potential," he said.

"Once feasibilty (study) is done, only then we will be able to comment on that (expansion)," Lamba told Reuters on the sidelines of the India Energy Week.

He did not comment on any financing plans.

TotalEnergies said last year it would pause investing in the Adani Group after U.S. prosecutors accused officials from the conglomerate, including its billionaire Chairman Gautam Adani, of corruption.

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Jan 27 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• ADANI TOTAL GAS Q3 CONSOL NET PROFIT 1.42 BILLION RUPEES

• ADANI TOTAL GAS Q3 CONSOL REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 14.01 BILLION RUPEES

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Jan 9 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• ADANI TOTAL GAS LTD - ALLOCATION OF APM GAS HAS BEEN REVISED UPWARDS BY 20%

• ADANI TOTAL GAS LTD - APM GAS ALLOCATION REVISED UPWARDS BY 20% EFFECTIVE JAN 16, 2025

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Dec 9 (Reuters) - Indian conglomerate Adani Group will invest over 7.5 trillion rupees ($88.53 billion) in various sectors like renewable energy and cement in the northern state of Rajasthan, Karan Adani, managing director of Adani Ports APSE.NSm, said on Monday at an investment summit.

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Dec 3 (Reuters) - Several entities linked to the Adani Group have approached the India markets regulator to seek a settlement in a case that accuses them of violating public shareholding regulations through improper practices at four of the conglomerate's listed companies, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday.

Adani Group did not immediately respond to Reuters inquiry, seeking comments.

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NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Both houses of Indian parliament were suspended on Monday after disruptions by opposition groups demanding a discussion on bribery allegations against the Adani Group and communal tensions in a northern town.

Parliament was similarly adjourned for all of last week as opposition parties, led by the main opposition Congress, demanded a discussion on the indictment of Adani chair Gautam Adani by U.S. authorities.

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NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The lower house of India's parliament was suspended temporarily on Friday for a fourth day in a row this week following disruptions as opposition lawmakers sought a discussion on the allegations against Adani Group.

U.S. authorities last week accused Group Chairman Gautam Adani and seven others from the company of being part of a $265 million scheme to bribe Indian officials, and of misleading U.S. investors while raising funds there.

The ports-to-power conglomerate has termed the allegations "baseless" and said it would seek "all possible legal recourse".

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Nov 28 (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani oversees a sprawling conglomerate with activities spanning construction of airports to supply of electricity and the sale of cooking oil.

U.S. authorities have accused Adani, his nephew and executive director Sagar Adani and managing director of Adani Green, Vneet S. Jaain, of being part of a scheme to pay bribes of $265 million to secure Indian power supply contracts, and misleading U.S. investors during fund raises there.

The group has called the allegations baseless.

Here are key details of the Adani Group's businesses:

** Energy: It mines thermal coal and produces power through its utilities firm Adani Power ADAN.NS, which is transmitted via Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS.

The renewable energy arm of the ports-to-power conglomerate is Adani Green Energy ADNA.NS, which is at the center of the U.S. indictment. It focuses on solar, wind and hybrid power generation and has a presence in a dozen Indian states.

Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS, which distributes piped natural gas, is run in a partnership with TotalEnergies TTEF.PA.

** Airports: Since entering the space in 2019, the group runs airports in cities from Mumbai, the commercial capital, to the tourist city of Jaipur and southern Thiruvananthapuram, through its flagship firm, Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS.

The flagship also has a presence in roadways, real estate and infrastructure.

** Edible oils and food: The group's joint venture with Singapore's Wilmar International WLIL.SI makes edible oils and packaged food items such as fragrant basmati rice, wheat flour and sugar under the Adani Wilmar ADAW.NS banner.

** Port operations: Adani Ports APSE.NS, India's top private operator by volume, manages 13 domestic ports, including the country's busiest private port, Mundra in the western state of Gujarat.

Outside India, Adani Ports owns a stake of 70% in Israel's port of Haifa and 51% in Sri Lanka's Colombo port.

** Cement: The group entered the industry in 2022, inking its biggest-ever deal in the space by acquiring Holcim AG's HOLN.S stake in Ambuja Cements ABUJ.NS and ACC ACC.NS. It has been on an acquisition spree since in its bid to topple India's top cement maker, UltraTech Cement ULTC.NS.

** Media: Adani entered India's media industry by acquiring a majority stake in Quintillion Business Media, a financial news digital media platform, in 2022. Afterwards, it strengthened its hold in the space by striking deals with news broadcaster NDTV NDTV.NS in 2022 and news agency IANS in 2023.

It also builds and runs data centres nationwide.

** Defence and aerospace: One of the few private players in a state-dominated weapons sector, the group supplies domestically made weapons to Indian forces. In 2018, it signed a supply deal with Israel's Elbit Systems.

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Nov 27 (Reuters) - Some nations and investors have either scrapped deals or halted investments in the Adani Group, after the United States indicted its billionaire chairman Gautam Adani for alleged bribery and fraud to win contracts for a group company, Adani Green Energy.

Adani Group has denied all the accusations as "baseless", but its 10 listed entities have lost about $33 billion in market value since the indictment, with Adani Green the hardest hit, losing about $9.7 billion in market value.

Here are key details of the conglomerate's stalled deals and other fallout:

** Ratings agency Moody's cut the outlook on the ratings of seven Adani entities to 'negative' from 'stable,' citing the U.S. indictment of Chairman Gautam Adani and others could weaken the group's access to funding and increase its capital costs.

Meanwhile, Fitch earlier put some Adani Group bonds on watch for a possible downgrade, also citing the U.S. indictment.

** India's Andhra Pradesh state is likely to suspend a power purchase deal linked to Adani Group due to the U.S. indictment, two state government sources told Reuters. The southern state will also ask the federal government and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), which awards power supply contracts to companies like Adani, to investigate the charges.

** French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA will not make any more investments in the Adani Group. Total has a 20% stake in Adani Green Energy ADNA.NS, putting its financial exposure in Adani firms at between $4 billion and $5 billion, Bernstein Research estimates.

** The U.S. International Development Finance Corp is reviewing the impact of the indictment against Gautam Adani on the agency's plan to lend $550 million for a port development project in Sri Lanka partly owned by Adani Group. Last November, the agency said it would provide financing for the port terminal project in the key city of Colombo.

** Sri Lanka is studying the accusations against Adani Group and will consider all aspects of its projects in the island nation. The government is taking the concerns seriously but has made no final decision yet.

** Kenya has canceled a procurement process of more than $2 billion that was expected to give control of its main airport to the Adani Group. The deal was to add a second runway at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport and upgrade the passenger terminal. Kenya also scrapped a separate 30-year, $736-million public-private partnership, signed by Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS with its energy ministry in October.

** Bangladesh has set up a committee to investigate its power generation contracts signed during the tenure of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, one of them with Adani Power ADAN.NS.

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Nov 26 (Reuters) - Some nations and investors have either scrapped deals or halted investments in the Adani Group, after the United States indicted its billionaire chairman Gautam Adani for alleged bribery and fraud to win contracts for a group company, Adani Green Energy.

Adani Group has denied all the accusations as "baseless", but its 10 listed entities have lost about $33 billion in market value since the indictment, with Adani Green the hardest hit, losing about $9.7 billion in market value.

Here are key details of the conglomerate's stalled deals:

** French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA will not make any more investments in the Adani Group, saying that it was not informed of the U.S. bribery charges against Gautam Adani.

Total has a 20% stake in Adani Green Energy ADNA.NS, putting its financial exposure in Adani firms at between $4 billion and $5 billion, Bernstein Research estimates.

Shares of Adani Green Energy plunged more than 11% after TotalEnergies' statement, while those of Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS, in which Total holds 37.4%, closed down 1.4%.

** The U.S. International Development Finance Corp is reviewing the impact of the indictment against Gautam Adani on the agency's plan to lend $550 million for a port development project in Sri Lanka partly owned by Adani Group.

Last November, the agency said it would provide financing for the port terminal project in the key city of Colombo.

** Sri Lanka is studying the accusations against Adani Group and will consider all aspects of its projects in the island nation. The government is taking the concerns seriously but has made no final decision yet.

** Kenya has canceled a procurement process of more than $2 billion that was expected to give control of its main airport to the Adani Group. The deal was to add a second runway at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport and upgrade the passenger terminal in exchange for a 30-year lease.

Kenya also scrapped a separate 30-year, $736-million public-private partnership, signed by Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS with its energy ministry in October.

** Bangladesh has set up a committee to investigate its power generation contracts signed during the tenure of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, one of them with Adani Power ADAN.NS. The committee has urged the interim government to hire a global legal firm to ensure thorough and transparent vetting of the deals.

** India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh state is weighing the possibility of canceling a power supply contract linked to the Adani Group, a top official told Reuters, after the U.S. bribery indictments.

The indictment report said bribes of more than $265 million were paid to Indian government officials to obtain solar power-supply contracts in several states, with Andhra Pradesh receiving most of the money, about $228 million.

(Reporting by Kashish Tandon in Bengaluru; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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BENGALURU, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been indicted by U.S. prosecutors for his alleged role in a $265 million scheme to bribe Indian officials, sending shockwaves across his eponymous ports-to-soybeans business conglomerate.

Here is what you need to know about the U.S. indictment.

THE MAJOR U.S. INDICTMENT

Gautam Adani, one of world's richest people, faces his biggest challenge after being charged with seven others for alleged bribery related to power supply deals from energy projects in India, with U.S. authorities calling it "The Corrupt Solar Project".

Adani Group, which runs several key infrastructure projects across the globe, says the allegations are baseless and has vowed to seek "all possible legal recourse".

The group's CFO has said the indictment is linked to one Adani Green Energy contract that makes up some 10% of the unit's business.

There is also a growing spotlight on Sagar Adani, a millennial scion of the company who kept track of hundreds of millions of dollars of alleged bribes to Indian officials, in notes the prosecutors described as "bribe notes".

The alleged bribes caught the attention of U.S. authorities when Adani's companies were raising funds from U.S.-based investors in transactions starting in 2021.

DISCLOSURE ISSUES, STOCK ROUT AND FALLOUT

The scandal has also raised concerns about market and public disclosure lapses by Adani Group, with prosecutors alleging the company issued false statements earlier this year related to its knowledge of the U.S. investigation.

The U.S. indictment has kept Adani Group's debt and equity under pressure. Its dollar bond prices have fallen to almost a one-year low.

The indictment appears to now have ramifications across the globe, including news that some bankers are considering pausing fresh lending to the group.

Kenya has ordered the cancellation of Adani infrastructure deals worth over $2.5 billion and a U.S. development agency is 'assessing ramifications' on a Sri Lanka Adani port project it had agreed to finance. In Bangladesh, a government panel has sought legal help for its investigation of power deals including one with Adani.

Back in India, opposition parties have demanded a probe into allegations of wrongdoing and said they would raise the issue in parliament.

WHAT NEXT FOR ADANI, LEGAL OPTIONS

A key question is what is next for Gautam Adani? He is charged with foreign bribery, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy.

Adani has not been arrested and his whereabouts are unknown, though he is believed to be in India.

A trial could still be a long way off, even if Adani is extradited or surrenders in the U.S.

If convicted, Adani could face decades in prison as well as monetary penalties, though any sentence would ultimately be up to the judge overseeing the case.

For now, Adani has to answer U.S. SEC allegations within 21 days, a court directive states.

(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Kalra, Sonali Paul and Toby Chopra)

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MUMBAI/BENGALURU, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Indian banks' loan exposure to the embattled Adani Group seems "manageable" and any credit risk in the aftermath of its billionaire founder-chairman's indictment in the United States looks "contained," JPMorgan said on Friday.

U.S. prosecutors have charged Gautam Adani, one of the world's richest people, and seven other people with paying $265 million in bribes to Indian government officials for contracts, including to develop the country's largest solar power plant.

Adani Group has said the accusations are "baseless" and that it will seek "all possible legal recourse".

Shares of Indian state-owned banks fell 2.7% on Thursday over worries about the extent of their exposure to the ports-to-power conglomerate that spans about 10 listed companies in all.

However, JPMorgan analysts said Indian banks' exposure to the group was around 0.3% of outstanding loans as of March and that the loans were backed by asset cover.

"We don't see major credit risk as the underlying companies are not implicated," the Wall Street brokerage said in a note.

Moreover, Indian banks' exposure to Adani Green ADNA.NS, which is at the centre of the allegations, is "materially lower" at just six basis points of banking system credit as of September, JPMorgan said.

"We do not see any systemic risk to Indian financials from a potential credit event in Adani Green, given the low exposure, asset cover, improving operating performance of the broader Adani Group and the capital and standard asset buffers at banks," the investment bank said.

While credit risk to banks may be contained, sources told Reuters that global and local banks may now limit fresh funding.

Four local bankers that Reuters spoke to said they would take a wait-and-watch approach and that any fresh funds would likely be at higher interest rates due to the increased risks.

"Loan pricing is expected to go up, but we will wait and watch for at least 3-4 months before we initiate any fresh funding request," said an official at a private lender that has exposure to the Adani group.

The lender's internal assessment shows the Adani group has the ability to repay loans and their cash flows remain strong, the banker said, asking not to be identified as he is not authorised to speak with the media.

Shares of Indian state-owned banks rebounded on Friday.

(Reporting by Siddhi Nayak and Bharath Rajeswaran; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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By Kashish Tandon and Hritam Mukherjee

Nov 21 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, founder of a conglomerate named after him, and seven others in an alleged bribery and fraud scheme related to a renewable energy project in India.

The authorities said Adani and the other defendants agreed to pay about $265 million in bribes to Indian officials to obtain contracts. The Adani Group denied the charges as baseless and that it would seek "all possible legal recourse".

Here are key details of the people charged by the U.S. authorities:

** Gautam Adani, 62, is Asia's wealthiest person after countryman Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $57.8 billion, according to Forbes. He set up the Adani Group in 1988, beginning with commodities trading.

He and his nephew Sagar are accused of orchestrating the scheme to secure a solar energy project in India and misleading the company's investors during a $750 million bond offering, which raised about $175 million from U.S. investors.

** Sagar Adani is credited with building the solar and wind portfolio of Adani Green Energy ADNA.NS and currently oversees its "organization building as well as all strategic and financial matters", according to its website. He is an executive director of Adani Green.

** Vneet Jaain has been the managing director of Adani Green Energy since 2020. Before that, he headed other Adani group firms such as Adani Power ADAN.NS and Adani Infrastructure, according to his LinkedIn profile.

** Ranjit Gupta, between 2019 and 2022, was the chief executive officer of energy firm Azure Power Global, whose stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange until November 2023.

U.S. authorities allege that Gupta conspired with Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani and Vneet Jaain to pay bribes to Indian government officials for Adani Green and Azure Power to secure a solar energy project in India.

Azure Power told Reuters in an emailed statement that it was "aware of the actions" announced by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission against its former employees.

"We have been cooperating with those agencies in relation to those and other matters and we will continue to do so," the firm said.

Gupta, currently CEO of energy firm Ocior Energy, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ocior Energy did not immediately respond to a separate Reuters request for comment.

** Cyril Cabanes, who U.S. court documents said was a citizen of Australia and France who resided in Singapore, was the managing director of infrastructure overseeing Asia Pacific and Middle East regions at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a Canadian investment firm, between 2016 and 2023.

The indictment document said that an unnamed unit of CDPQ is the top stakeholder of Azure Power.

Cabanes, his then-CDPQ colleagues Saurabh Agarwal and Deepak Malhotra, and Rupesh Agarwal are accused of joining the conspiracy between 2021 and 2022.

Cabanes did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

** Saurabh Agarwal worked with a company associated CDPQ from May 2017 until July 2023, when he reported to Cabanes.

CDPQ on Thursday said it was aware of the charges against its former employees. "Those employees were all terminated in 2023 and CDPQ is cooperating with the U.S. authorities," it said.

Reuters could not immediately reach Agarwal for comment.

** Deepak Malhotra was Director of infrastructure, South Asia, at CDPQ when he joined the board of Azure Power in 2019. He resigned from the board in 2023, along with Cabanes.

Reuters could not immediately reach Malhotra for comment.

** Rupesh Agarwal is currently a co-chair at Indian industry lobby group FICCI Renewable Energy CEO Council. From July 2022 to August 2022, the period mentioned in the indictment document, he was the Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer at Azure.

Reuters could not immediately reach Agarwal for comment.

(Reporting by Kashish Tandon, Hritam Mukherjee and Sethuraman NR in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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Nov 15 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• INTIMATED BY NODAL AGENCY FOR FURTHER REDUCTION IN ALLOCATION OF APM GAS BY 13%

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Oct 24 (Reuters) - Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS:

• ADANI TOTAL GAS Q2 CONSOL NET PROFIT 1.86 BILLION RUPEES

• ADANI TOTAL GAS Q2 CONSOL REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 13.18 BILLION RUPEES

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** Shares of Adani Total Gas Ltd ADAG.NS up 5.6% at 833 rupees

** The city gas distributor said it secured $375 mln financing from global lenders to expand network

** ADAG trims YTD losses to 16%, while rivals including Gujarat Gas GGAS.NS and Mahanagar Gas MGAS.NS are up between 28% and 58% this year

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Adds context on Indian market in paragraphs 5-6, clarifies context in paragraphs 7-8

By America Hernandez

PARIS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - TotalEnergies will form a joint venture with India's Adani Green Energy Ltd in a deal which will see the French oil giant contribute an equity investment of $444 million, it said on Tuesday.

The two companies had formed a joint venture in September 2023 worth $300 million which gave Total "direct access to ownership of assets" contributed by Adani Green — namely 1.05 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar farms in India, where the bulk of energy requirements are still met by coal.

The new agreement, into which Total pays more money, will see each side hold 50% of another portfolio of 1.15 GW of solar electricity installations, both operational and under construction, Adani Green said in a statement.

The electricity will be sold on the wholesale market and through power purchase agreements signed with the federal government agency, Solar Energy Corporation of India, which TotalEnergies said in a statement would allow it to capitalise on the liberalisation of India's power market.

TotalEnergies has described India as a key market to develop both its natural gas and renewable energy businesses.

Searing heatwaves and an uptick in economic activity have resulted in India's electricity generation growing at an average of about 8% annually following the pandemic year of 2020/21, outpacing power demand growth in every major global economy.

Total pressed pause on further involvement with Adani early last year, after allegations of improper dealings and use of tax havens published by U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research wiped about $150 billion in value off the shares of parent Adani Group.

But TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne has defended his company's investments with Adani — it also has a 37.4% stake in Adani Total Gas and a 19.75% share of Adani Green Energy — saying they were still worth more after the share price drop than when Total first bought in.

The French major, which makes most of its money producing and selling oil and gas, hopes to have 45 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.

Shares of Adani Green closed 5.9% higher on Monday.

(Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Mark Porter, Sharon Singleton and David Evans)

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Updates with latest allegations from Hindenburg, regulator's response

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - An 18-month battle between Hindenburg Research and India's Adani Group has taken a fresh turn with the U.S. based short-seller alleging over the weekend that the chief of the country's market regulator has a conflict of interest in the matter.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been investigating the group after Hindenburg Research's report in January last year set off an over $150 billion selloff in the conglomerate's stocks despite the company's denials of wrongdoing. The stocks have since recovered partially.

Here are some facts about billionaire Gautam Adani, his group and Hindenburg's allegations.

WHO ARE ADANI AND HINDENBURG?

Gautam Adani built his empire after starting out as a commodities trader. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is from the same state as Adani, Gujarat, and their relationship has long come under scrutiny by Modi's opponents.

Before Hindenburg's report, Adani, a school drop-out, rose to become Asia's richest person, with businesses across ports, power generation, airports, mining, renewables, media and cement.

Hindenburg Research was founded in 2017 by Nathan Anderson. It is a forensic financial research firm which analyses equity, credit and derivatives. It has a track-record of finding corporate wrongdoings and placing bets against the companies.

WHAT DID HINDENBURG AND ADANI SAY?

Hindenburg disclosed last year it held short positions in Adani companies through U.S.-traded bonds and non-India-traded derivatives. It released a report that alleged Adani improperly used tax havens and flagged concerns about high debt levels at the company.

The Adani group called the report baseless and termed the allegations "unsubstantiated speculations".

WHAT HAPPENED AT ADANI AFTER HINDENBURG REPORT?

Hindenburg's report sparked a $150 billion meltdown in shares of Adani's publicly listed companies last year. Although the shares are still roughly $35 billion down from levels before the Hindenburg report, they have staged a smart recovery.

That's partially because the ports-to-power conglomerate welcomed investors like Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding IHC.AD and investment firm GQG to shore up confidence by diluting some of the family's tight shareholding.

In July, Adani Energy Solutions became the first group company to return to the equity capital market, raising $1 billion. The group's flagship Adani Enterprises is also considering raising funds, Reuters reported earlier this month.

WHAT IS HINDENBURG's LATEST ALLEGATION?

In a report published on Saturday, Hindenburg alleged that Madhabi Puri Buch, the chaiperson of SEBI, and her husband previously held investments in offshore funds also used by the Adani Group.

It says the Bermuda-based Global Opportunities Fund, which the Financial Times said was used by entities connected to Adani Group to trade in the shares of group companies, had sub-funds. Citing whistleblower documents, Hindenburg alleges Buch and her husband invested in one of these sub-funds in 2015 and exited in 2018.

Hindenburg is trying to link this investment to what it argues is the slow pace of action against the Adani Group and offshore funds used by it.

"We find it unsurprising that SEBI was reluctant to follow a trail that may have led to its own chairperson," the short-seller said in its report.

Adani Group's 10 listed firms lost a combined $11 billion in market capitalisation on Monday compared to Friday's close.

HOW DID BUCH AND SEBI RESPOND?

In two separate statements issued, Buch said the investments were made in a personal capacity before she took over as chief of SEBI and that all necessary disclosures had been made.

The fund in which Buch invested, IPE-Plus Fund 1, issued a separate statement saying it had not invested in any shares of the Adani Group.

A formal statement from the spokesperson of the regulator reiterated Buch's position and asked investors to remain calm and exercise due diligence before reacting to reports such as that by Hindenburg.

Updating on the status of the investigation into the Adani Group, the regulator said that it had concluded its probe into 23 out of 24 matters. Six Adani Group companies have disclosed to stock exchanges that they have received show cause notices from the regulator. A show cause notice signals an intention by to take disciplinary action if satisfactory explanations are not provided.

A show cause notice has also been issued to Hindenburg for violating Indian rules, which was made public by the short-seller in July.

(Writing by Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Ira Dugal; Editing by Aditya Kalra and Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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** Shares of Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS climb ~2% at 904 rupees

** City gas distributor's Q1 profit grows 14.4% Y/Y; rev from ops increases ~9% Y/Y

** ADAG was up 1.1% before results

** Trading volume 1.2x the 30-day moving average

** Stock, however, down 7.6% YTD, while rivals Indraprastha Gas IGAS.NS and Mahanagar Gas MGAS.NS up 30% and ~52%, respectively

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Recasts throughout with CFO comments on regulatory notices

By Sumit Khanna and Chris Thomas

AHMEDABAD, India, June 25 - The finance chief of the Adani Group conglomerate on Tuesday deemed some of the Indian market regulator notices received by group firms citing alleged regulatory lapses as "trivial" in nature.

Led by billionaire Gautam Adani, the group has faced regulatory challenges in India since a report by short seller Hindenburg Research in January 2023. It accused group firms of improper use of tax havens and stock manipulation which sparked a $150 billion meltdown in the market value of group firms.

The Adani Group denied any wrongdoing.

Then last month, flagship firm Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS and other group companies disclosed they had received notices from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) about alleged violations including non-compliance with certain provisions for listed companies.

"Some (notices) are trivial," Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh told a media briefing in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.

He referred to one such query he himself received relating to his share trading history in relation to the time that GQG Partners invested in the group last year.

"I don't even have a demat account. They were very surprised to find out that I don't have a demat account," he said, referring to a trading account.

"So that ends there. So they were these kinds of procedural things. They have to do something, they couldn't find anything."

GQG and SEBI did not respond to Reuters' requests for immediate comment.

Adani since the Hindenburg report has attracted investment from investors including GQG and Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding IHC.AD.

Group companies said the notices they received were related to disclosure rules and related party transactions, but they have not provided detail regarding the alleged violations or the parties involved.

Adani Enterprises said the notices had no "material consequential effect" for relevant financial statements and there was "no material non-compliance of applicable laws and regulations".

INFRASTRUCTURE
Also on Tuesday, Singh said the group would increase spending in fiscal year 2025 by 85%, to 1.3 trillion rupees ($15.6 billion), as it prepares to capitalise on an expected boom in infrastructure development.

Adani Green Energy, the renewable energy arm of the group, will spend 340 billion rupees to add 6 gigawatts of capacity, Singh told reporters.

Adani is also aiming to nearly double its cement making capacity to 140 million tons (MT) capacity by 2028 from 79 MT, he said.

On Monday, the owner of Adani Group told investors it is "well positioned" to capitalise on opportunities in India's booming infrastructure sector.

(Additional reporting by Nandan Mandayam, Aditya Kalra; editing by Jason Neely)

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By Sethuraman N R

BENGALURU, June 3 (Reuters) - Shares of three Adani Group companies hit record highs Monday amid a broad-based rally in the infrastructure-focussed Indian conglomerate after exit polls predicted a third straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

The 10-company conglomerate, led by billionaire Gautam Adani, has invested billions of dollars in mining, ports, trading, electricity and gas among other sectors to benefit from the Modi government's emphasis on infrastructure development.

On the day, shares of Adani Ports APSE.NS jumped as much as 12.8% to a record high, while Adani Power ADAN.NS surged nearly 18% and Ambuja Cements ABUJ.NS rose about 7% to also hit all-time highs.

Shares of Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS, the group's flagship firm advanced nearly 10%, while renewable energy company Adani Green ADNA.NS climbed by 14% to their highest since January 2023.

"If the current government is going to continue for a third term, the growth in infrastructure will be a big focus. Many Adani Group companies are heavily into infrastructure and hence, we are seeing action in these stocks," said Prashanth Tapse, Senior VP (Research), Mehta Equities.

Adani Ports and Adani Enterprises were among the top 10 gainers on the benchmark Nifty 50 .NSEI index, which also rallied to a record high as the exit polls ensured political continuity.

The index has nearly doubled since 2019, when Modi was elected for a second term. The Adani Group stocks have, however, sky-rocketed between 300% and 4,500% in that period. The broader infrastructure .NIFTYINFR and energy .NIFTYENR indexes have just over doubled in value.

Citi analysts said they expect stocks exposed to the infrastructure and logistics sector, including Adani Ports, to do well in the medium term.

Among other Adani group companies, there were 5% to 9% gains in Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS, Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS and consumer goods company Adani Wilmar ADAW.NS, as well as news broadcaster NDTV NTDV.NS cement maker ACC ACC.NS.

(Reporting by Sethuraman NR in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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May 30 (Reuters) - Adani Total Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between India's Adani Group and France's TotalEnergies TTEF.PA, is considering building more plants in India to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) to meet the growing demand for the cleaner fuel, the company's top boss said on Thursday.

The company has a plan to double the capacity of its 5 million metric tonnes-per-year Dhamra LNG terminal in Eastern India, CEO Satinder Pal Singh said, adding that the terminal is operating at about 52% capacity.

He expects Dhamra LNG plant to operate at full capacity by 2026 or 2027.

(Reporting by Nidhi Verma, writing by Varun Hebbalalu)

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By VarunVyas Hebbalalu

BENGALURU, May 24 (Reuters) - Shares of Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS on Friday bounced back to levels last seen in January 2023, before a report by U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research triggered a sell-off in billionaire Gautam Adani's ports-to-power conglomerate.

Shares of the Adani group's flagship company rose as much as 2.1% to 3,457.85 rupees. The stock had closed at 3,442 rupees on Jan. 24, 2023, the session before Hindenburg in a report accused the group of stock manipulation and improper use of tax havens.

The group, which refuted the allegations, suffered a loss of as much as $150 billion in combined market value, as the short-seller's report roiled investor confidence and resulted in intense regulatory scrutiny.

Adani Enterprises' stock plunged about 70% to a two-year low within just seven days after the report.

Although the market value of the main stocks, including Ambuja Cement ABUJ.NS, ACC ACC.NS, and NDTV NDTV.NS are still down about $22.35 billion from pre-Hindenburg levels, the shares have staged a smart recovery.

That's partially due to investments from Abu Dhabi-based International Holding IHC.AD and U.S. boutique investment firm GQG Partners GQG.AX, which helped Adani shore up confidence by diluting some of the family's tight shareholding.

Moreover, surges that followed a court-appointed panel saying in May that India's markets watchdog "drew a blank" and India's top court saying no further scrutiny was needed in January, also bolstered support for Adani Enterprises' stock.

Friday's climb follows the previous session's 8% rise after reports that the Adani group flagship could be included in the S&P BSE Sensex index .BSESN.

It is on track to have risen in nine out of ten straight sessions, if the day's gains hold.

Adani Enterprises is the fourth of the seven group companies to have returned to pre-Hindenburg levels.

Adani Ports APSE.NS, Adani Total Gas ADAG.NS, and Adani Power ADAN.NS have already surpassed levels seen before the report.

However, Adani Energy Solutions ADAI.NS, Adani Wilmar ADAW.NS and Adani Green Energy ADNA.NS are still below their pre-Hindenburg close.

Adani Enterprises, which along with Adani Ports is part of India's benchmark Nifty 50 .NSEI index, was last up 0.5%.

(Reporting by Varun Hebbalalu in Bengaluru; Editing by Eileen Soreng)

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