Tikona co-founder sues Airtel post acquisition of its 4G business
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Tiwari has slapped a legal notice against both Airtel and Tikona for not providing details of how the proceeds will be split among shareholders. He said that the deal should be put on hold until his entitlements and interests were protected.
Tiwari holds just over 1% in the Mumbai-based Internet services provider.
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The deal would be closed in the coming four to six weeks, after which Airtel’s high-speed 4G services will be rolled out on the newly acquired spectrum.
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Tikona was founded in 2008 by former Reliance Communications executives Rajesh Tiwari and Prakash Bajpai, and is backed by investors like Goldman Sachs, Oak Capital, IFC and Everstone Capital. Tiwari, even after having left the company in 2009, holds a direct 1% stake while also being a shareholder of Tikona Trust, which owns a stake in the company as well.
As per his conversation with ET, he took the legal action since he was not provided any information about the split of the share proceeds from the deal.
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