Expansion of Team

22 May 2006 07:00

Trinity Capital PLC22 May 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trinity Capital PLC Expansion of Indian Management Team Trinity Capital PLC ("Trinity"), the Indian property fund established to investin real estate and real estate related entities across India, is pleased toannounce that Trikona Advisors ("Trikona"), the manager of the fund hasappointed Srinivasa Murty, Suresh Naik, and Aditya Bhargava with immediateeffect. Welcoming the appointments, Aashish Kalra, Managing Director of Trikona, said:"Since the IPO in April, we have made excellent progress in developing andexpanding our pipeline of investment opportunities. The arrival of Srini, Sureshand Aditya is therefore well timed as we seek to move these projects to the nextstage. "Their appointment also reflects Trikona's growing status as one of the largerreal estate funds in India with one of the most experienced management teams. Welook forward to utilising the considerable experience of Srini, Suresh andAditya in helping to realise our objective of becoming the investment fund ofchoice for the Indian real estate sector." Srinivasa Murty, who joins Trikona as a Senior Adviser, is based in Mumbai andhas extensive experience of the Indian institutional real estate sector. Priorto joining Trikona, Mr Murty worked for Hindustan Lever (Unilever India) wherehe was responsible for building and heading the Group's real estate strategy andproperty development division, which had an asset portfolio valued at over $200million. Suresh Naik joins Trikona as a Vice President. Previously, Mr Naik worked forING Vysya Bank, the ING Group entity in India. During his time at ING Vysya, MrNaik was head of the bank's Property Management Division. Prior to that Sureshwas a part of the founding team at Hindustan Lever's Real Estate Division withMr Murty, where he gained extensive experience of managing large landtransactions, development projects and formulating, managing and executing jointventure arrangements with reputed Indian real estate players, including Tatasand Hiranandanis. Aditya Bhargava also joins Trikona as a Vice President from YES Bank, wherehe had oversight for Investment Banking activities in Northern India. He led thebank's first IPO as a book running lead manager, and the bank's first privateequity transaction. Additionally, Mr Bhargava has worked on a range oftransactions including private equity investment in the real estate/tourismsector. He was previously with Delphi Corporation in Troy, Michigan where heworked on the first proposed industrial REIT public offering. Mr Bhargava hasfurther assisted companies with their expansion plans, including negotiatingland acquisitions with local regulatory authorities in India. Michael Cassidy, Chairman of Trinity, commented: "We have made good progresssince April and the additions of Srinivasa, Suresh and Aditya to our teamfurther underlines the strengths of Trikona. Our investment strategy remains ontrack and we look forward to announcing a series of transactions in due course." Trinity listed on the AIM market on 21 April 2006 and raised £250 million by wayof an offer to institutional investors. It is intended that the funds raised,together with local partner equity, will be used to create a geared propertyportfolio of over £1 billion. ENDS Enquiries: Trikona Capital Aashish Kalra +91 11 2620 7240 Cardew Group Tim Robertson +44 20 7930 0777 Sofia Rehman Catherine Maitland Fortex Harjiv Singh +1 212 209 3863 Sundeep Khanna + 91 11 51324969 Numis Iain McDonald +44 20 7776 1567 Notes: • For further information and regular updates regarding the Fund'sactivities, please log on and sign up for news alerts at www.trinityplc.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange