Reliance Industries – which is attempting to buy LyondellBasell – is offering $10-12bn, according to this report from Reuters quoting two sources with direct knowledge of the deal.
This would be one of the biggest-ever acquisitions by an Indian company. In 2007, Tata Steel bought Corus for $13bn.
Reliance raised $660m through a share sale in September.
It has $4bn in cash, $8bn in treasury stock that can be sold and if it doubles its current net debt-to-equity of 0.35x it can borrow another $10bn, the Reuters report adds – quoting a recent Macquarie research note.