Global investment firm KKR & Co will invest an additional 20.69 billion rupees ($249.19 million) in Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s rapidly expanding retail unit that rivals global competitors including Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc in the world’s most populous nation.
KKR’s follow-on investment will take its total equity stake to 1.42% in in Ambani’s Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd on a fully-diluted basis, the Mumbai-based firm said in an exchange filing Monday. In 2020, KKR had invested 55.50 billion rupees in the retail unit.