Everstone IV (IFC-45049)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • India
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Active
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
May 31, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
EVERSTONE FUND IV
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
  • Finance
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Equity
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 60.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 950.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ IFC website

Updated in EWS Jun 10, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Apr 16, 2021

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

 According to the bank documents, " the proposed project is an investment in Everstone Capital Partners IV Pte. Ltd., a Singapore limited partnership and/or one or more parallel or alternative investment vehicles which will invest in equity and equity-linked instruments of companies that have significant operations in India and opportunistically in South East Asia."

The Fund is expected to be focused on healthcare and pharmaceuticals (including service, delivery, diagnostics) and tech services (data analytics, tech integration, SaaS etc.). Other potential sectors of exposure include financial services (retail, MSME, asset finance, insurance) and consumer (consumption and durables). 

Expected Impact of the Fund is as follows:

(i) Providing access to private equity capital to unlisted mid-cap companies, including in underserved regions.

(ii) Provide capital and operational and financial value add to increase investee growth rates.

(iii) Increased Gender Equality through Manager’s policies at the Fund and investee level.                                                 

People Affected By This Project
People Affected By This Project refers to the communities of people likely to be affected positively or negatively by a project.

IFC's role and additionality consists of: (i) own account equity and; (ii) non-commercial risk mitigation

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

 ECP IV has a target fund size of US$950 million. IFC proposes an equity investment of up to US$50 million not to exceed 20% of total committed capital and a co-investment envelope of up to US$10 million.                                                  

Financial Intermediary
A financial intermediary is a bank or financial institution that receives funds from a development bank. A financial intermediary then lends these funds to their clients (private actors) in the form of loans, bonds, guarantees and equity shares. Financial intermediaries include insurance, pension and equity funds. The direct financial relationship is between the development bank and the financial intermediary.
Private Actor Relationship
A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

ECP IV is the successor fund to Everstone Capital Partners III (“Fund III”), a vintage 2016 fund with US$731 million in total commitment, Everstone Capital Partners II (“Fund II”), a 2010 vintage fund with US$580 million in capital commitments and to Indivision India Partners (“Fund I”), US$425 million 2006 vintage fund.                                                 

Private Actors Description
A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

The Fund will be managed by Everstone Capital Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore, as its investment manager (the “Manager”). The Everstone group was co-founded and is co-led by Sameer Sain and Atul Kapur since 2006       


Contact Information
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Everstone Capital Asia Pte. Ltd
Mr Sanjay Gujral
Chief Business Officer
+6592348230
sgujral@everstonecapital.com
#08-01, Singapore 238463
www.everstonecapital.com

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