The bankruptcy court admitted an insolvency case against Asian Hotels (West), which operates the Hyatt Regency hotel near the Mumbai airport, on a petition filed by JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC).
The Delhi bench of the National Company Law Tribunal admitted the company on September 16 and appointed Sapan Mohan Garg as an interim resolution professional Yes Bank, the sole banker to the hotel, sold its entire ₹282 crore debt to JM Financial ARC at an uncontested Swiss auction held on June 20, said a person aware of the transaction. Asian Hotels (West) has a subsidiary, Aria Hotels and Consultancy Services, which runs the JW Marriott Hotel at Aerocity in New Delhi.
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In June 2021, Asian Hotels (West) stated that it shut down the Hyatt Regency in Mumbai because Yes Bank, which maintains an account, blocked it and held back all funds. The private bank blocked the account after the company defaulted on payments. Subsequently, last November, Yes Bank took possession of the Hyatt Regency hotel building.
On September 13, 2021, SR Batliboi & Co LLP, the statutory auditors of Asian Hotels (West), resigned stating that the firm failed to receive relevant information despite multiple communications. They were appointed in 2017 for a term of five years.
Asian Hotels was incorporated as Chillwinds Hotels on January 8, 2007. Subsequently, it entered a scheme of arrangement which resulted in demerging of the Asian Hotels group into three listed companies – Asian Hotels (North), Asian Hotels (East) and Asian Hotels (West).
