India's antitrust watchdog approves DLF's $1 billion deal with Singapore's GIC

Reuters  |  MUMBAI 

(Reuters) - India's antitrust regulator has approved Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC's bid to acquire a stake in a firm owned by for 89 billion rupees ($1.38 billion), the country's biggest real estate developer said in a statement late Saturday.

As part of the deal, Reco Diamond Pvt Ltd, an affiliate of GIC, will own a 33.34 percent stake in DLF's property rental company, Cyber City Developers.

had announced in 2015 that three shareholders in Cyber City Developers would look to sell their stake to reduce conflicts of interest. The three shareholders were also among the founders of

($1 = 64.5500 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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First Published: Sun, November 05 2017. 15:39 IST