S.J.S. Enterprises Limited (NSEI:SJS) entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 90.1% stake in Walter Pack Automotive Products India Private Limited from Walter Pack Sociedad Limitada. and Roy Mathew for INR 2.4 billion on April 27, 2023. S.J.S. will acquire entire 85% stake from Walter Pack Sociedad Limitada, 5.1% stake from Indian promoter and founder, Roy Mathew who will continue to own 9.9% stake. As part of transaction, 3,15,442 shares will be acquired. After completion of transaction, Walter Pack Automotive will become subsidiary of S.J.S. Enterprises. Roy Mathew will lead the WPI business and will be reporting to K. A. Joseph and Sanjay Thapar. The transaction is expected to complete in 5-6 weeks. S.J.S. Enterprises generates strong cash flows, for FY23 it was INR 609.5 million and has built a comfortable consolidated cash & cash equivalents position of around INR 1,648.2 million, which will be utilised for funding the Walter Pack India acquisition. Walter Pack Automotive achieved interim revenues of over INR 1,200 million for FY23. S.J.S. Enterprises expects the acquisition to be significantly EPS accretive in current year itself.

Reeba Chacko, Vishak Abraham, Sharada Ramachandra, Arun Prabhu of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as legal advisor and legal due diligence provider and PwC acted as tax advisor for S.J.S. Enterprises.