{"id":792094,"date":"2023-03-29T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/03\/29\/zeel-indusind-bank-settle-dispute-paving-way-for-sony-zee-merger\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:30:58","slug":"zeel-indusind-bank-settle-dispute-paving-way-for-sony-zee-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/03\/29\/zeel-indusind-bank-settle-dispute-paving-way-for-sony-zee-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"ZEEL, IndusInd Bank settle dispute paving way for Sony-Zee merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zee Entertainment on Wednesday informed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that it has settled the dispute over dues with the private lender IndusInd Bank. It said that as a result, the bank&#8217;s plea objecting to the merger of ZEEL and Sony has been withdrawn. <\/p>\n<p>On February 22, the Mumbai bench of the NCLT had admitted the bank&#8217;s insolvency plea against ZEEL. The problem originates from a default of Rs 89 crore by Siti Networks, a division of the Zee Group, which was asserted by the IndusInd Bank and for which ZEEL served as a guarantee. The bank then filed an insolvency petition against Siti Networks. <\/p>\n<p>In its order, NCLT allowed IndusInd Bank to admit the company under Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP). It also appointed Sanjeev Kumar Jalan as the interim resolution professional.<br \/>\nSony and Zee had signed a merger deal in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Punit Goenka, CEO of ZEEL, had appealed the NCLT&#8217;s decision to allow IndusInd Bank to file for insolvency proceedings against Zee.<br \/>\nLast month, NCLAT had halted the insolvency proceedings against the company.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers of ZEEL told NCLAT that the Sony deal has received all the necessary approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zee Entertainment on Wednesday informed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that it has settled the dispute over dues with the private lender IndusInd Bank. It said that as a result, the bank&#8217;s plea objecting to the merger of ZEEL and Sony has been withdrawn. On February 22, the Mumbai bench of the NCLT had admitted the bank&#8217;s insolvency plea against ZEEL. The problem originates from a default of Rs 89 crore by Siti Networks, a division of the Zee Group, which was asserted by the IndusInd Bank and for which ZEEL served as a guarantee. The bank then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}