Shravan Gupta Explained

Shravan Gupta
Nationality:Indian
Alma Mater:Shri Ram College of Commerce
Occupation:MD & Chairman of MGF Group
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Spouse:Shilpa Gupta[1]
Children:2

Shravan Gupta (born 1973) is an Indian businessman, serving as the chairman of MGF Group.[2] [3] He was previously a director at Emaar MGF Land.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Early and personal life

Gupta has done his bachelor's degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He is married to Shilpa Gupta[1] and has two daughters with her.[8]

Career

After doing his B.Com from a college in Delhi, Shravan joined his family business,[8] namely Motor & General Finance Ltd. (MGF), a vehicle-finance/lending company which had been founded in 1930. He served as a Non-executive director of Motor & General Finance until 30 March 2007. In 1997, MGF diversified into real estate, when Shravan founded MGF Developments. The company created over 5 million square feet of mainly retail space (but also some commercial and residential space), building five shopping malls, including three in Gurgaon which are clustered together within a range of one Km (The Metropolitan, The Metropolis and The Megacity Mall), and one each in Delhi (City Square Mall) and Jaipur (MGF Metropolitan Mall).[9]

Joint Venture with Emaar

In 2006, Shravan's MGF Developments entered into a joint venture with Emaar Properties PJSC Dubai to invest in the Indian realty space.[9] The joint venture company, Emaar MGF, has invested about Rs.8,500 crore in the Indian real estate market, of which about Rs. 7000 crore (INR 70 billion/USD 1 billion) was brought in by Emaar, which represents the largest Foreign direct investment in India in the real estate sector.[10] Emaar and MGF announced that they were parting ways and that the joint venture would be divided vertically.[11] Two months later, Shravan resigned from his position as Executive Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Emaar MGF.[12] [13]

Other Sources

The NCLT later allowed the withdrawal of insolvency proceedings against Shravan Gupta’s real estate firm, after the company reached to a settlement with the homebuyers who had dragged the company to NCLT.[14]

Notes and References

  1. News: Subramanian . N Sundaresha . Emaar MGF's Gupta family set to benefit from Dun Smart City . . 28 December 2015.
  2. News: Pandora Papers: MGF's Shravan Gupta owned BVI firm, JV with Emaar got $2 million. en . Shyamlal . Yadav . The Indian Express . 8 October 2021 . 2022-12-22.
  3. News: Emaar accuses MGF and Shravan Gupta of fraudulent and illegal transfers of land parcels. MoneyControl.
  4. News: Shravan Gupta appears in CBI court . . 24 August 2012.
  5. News: Nair . Shraddha . Gupta brothers of MGF Group split . . 17 August 2010.
  6. Web site: www.ETRealty.com. Emaar MGF MD Shravan Gupta steps down - ET RealEstate. 2020-12-03. ETRealty.com. en.
  7. News: ED seizes Rs 102.8-mn assets from Emaar MGF MD Shravan Gupta under FEMA . . 15 December 2018.
  8. News: Young Turks Season 2 Episode 22 Part 1 Spearheading The Retail & property development (MGF) . . 29 July 2013.
  9. News: MGF poised for the next phase of growth . . 12 February 2019.
  10. News: Emaar-MGF brings large FDI to India . . 17 December 2005.
  11. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/construction/dubai-based-emaar-to-separate-from-indian-partner-mgf-ending-decade-old-joint-venture/articleshow/51805849.cms?from=mdr Emaar to end decade-long JV with MGF.
  12. News: Emaar MGF MD Shravan Gupta steps down . . 10 June 2016.
  13. News: Reaching for the sky in Dubai . The Times of India (New Delhi edition) . 25 June 2007.
  14. News: Haidar. Faizan. NCLT allows withdrawal of insolvency proceedings against MGF Developments. The Economic Times. 2021-12-20.