MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

10.05.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

CLININVENT RESEARCH PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Formerly Known As :

CLININVENT RESEARCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

Block – BN, Plot – 7, Sector – V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex, P. S. Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata – 700091, West Bengal

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2006

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

02.07.2003

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

21-96510

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U24232WB2003PTC096510

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

CALC03709G

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company.

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject offers clinical research services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical industries.

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ca

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

Limited with full security

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 46000

 

 

Status :

Moderate

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Slow

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is an established company having moderate track. Company’s profitability is under severe pressure. It has some accumulated losses. Payments are reported as slow and delayed.

 

The company can be considered normal for small business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions, with slight caution initially.

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

Block – BN, Plot – 7, Sector – V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex, P. S. Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata – 700091, West Bengal, India

E-Mail :

racocal@vsnl.net

Website :

http://www.clininvent.com

 

 

Head Office :

A-302, Everest Chambers, Next to Star TV office, Marol Naka, Andheri-Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400059, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-28511860 / 28595101

Fax No.:

91-22-28515482

E-Mail :

arunbhatt@clininvent.com

 

 

Corporate Office :

9 B, Wood Street, 3rd Floor, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal, India

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Rakesh Chandulal Pandya

Designation :

Director

Address :

21 Townsend Road, PO and PS-Bhawanipore, Kolkata – 700025, West Bengal, India 

Date of Birth/Age :

15.07.1967

Date of Appointment :

02.07.2003

 

 

Name :

Ms. Swapan Bhattacharya

Designation :

Director

Address :

26 Lee Road, 10th Floor, Kolkata – 700020, West Bengal, India

Date of Birth/Age :

02.01.1957

Date of Appointment :

29.01.2004

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

 

No. of Shares

Rakesh Chandulal Pandya

 

10

Merlin Resources Private Limited

 

4990

Chembiotek Research India Private Limited

 

4990

Swapan Bhattacharya

 

10

 

 

 

Category

 

Percentage of Holding

Foreign holdings [Foreign institutional investors, Foreign Companies, Foreign Financial Institutions, Non-resident Indian or Overseas corporate bodies or others]

 

99.81 %

Bodies corporate

 

0.18 %

Directors or relatives of directors

 

0.01 %

Total

 

100.00 %

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Subject offers clinical research services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical industries.

 

 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Bankers :

Indusind Bank Limited

24, Park Street, Kolkata

 

 

Facilities :

--

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Satisfactory

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Rajneesh Agarwal and Company

Chartered Accountants 

Address :

34 A, Metcalfe Street, 4th Floor, Suite – 4C, Kolkata – 700013, West Bengal, India

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

6000000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 60.000 Millions

 

 

 

 

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

5502720

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 55.027 Millions

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

 

0.100

0.100

2] Share Application Money

 

54.663

32.011

3] Reserves & Surplus

 

0.000

0.000

4] (Accumulated Losses)

 

[43.056]

[21.600]

NETWORTH

 

11.707

10.511

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

 

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

11.707

10.511

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

 

7.953

9.998

Capital work-in-progress

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

 

0.000

0.000

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

 

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

0.000

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

 

4.177

1.766

 

Cash & Bank Balances

 

2.345

1.645

 

Other Current Assets

 

0.000

0.000

 

Loans & Advances

 

5.520

4.210

Total Current Assets

 

12.042

7.621

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

8.288

7.136

 

Provisions

 

 

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

8.288

7.136

Net Current Assets

 

3.754

0.485

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

 

0.000

0.028

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

11.707

10.511

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

 

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

 

0.71

0.68

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

 

1.45

1.07

 

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

AS PER WEBSITE

 

Mission

To provide excellent clinical support services to pharmaceutical inventions by balancing the needs of quality, time and cost.

 

Vision

Credible

A quality service provider, firm on commitments.

 

Capable

A global service provider offering, full clinical services, covering all major therapeutic areas.

 

Compatible

A flexible organisation, which will complement the sponsor's processes and systems.

 

ClinInvent Partners: They are best alone, but better together.

 

The power of partnerships can never be underplayed. It makes us, mould us and helps us grow. Their alliance with their group companies is much the same. They share resources and infrastructure, work in cooperation and help each other in accomplishing their individual organisational goals.


The Chatterjee Group Life Sciences (TCGLS) is an integrated drug discovery research and development services entity with capabilities encompassing major segments of the pharmaceutical sciences domain. The business activities of TCGLS focus on leveraging the scientific knowledge available in India to serve the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, through cooperation and strategic partnerships in interdisciplinary research endeavours. TCGLS provides its clients with a wide array of comprehensive drug discovery and development services. To capitalise on the increasing opportunities presented by the industry changes, TCGLS has organised its business into four specialised operating units. Through this project-focussed organisational structure, the group brings the power of experienced leadership and management expertise closer to the end customers.

Chembiotek is an integrated contract research services organisation with expertise in library synthesis, offering services in the area of chemistry, biology and computational sciences.


Silicogene offers a wide range of software solutions in the areas of pattern recognition, management of multivariate datasets used in chemistry, and provides informatics products/services across the drug discovery domain.

TCGA is a public-private partnership in collaboration with CSIR and DST, Government of India, offering services in the domains of genomics and proteomics research.

 

Other Chatterjee Group Company

Lab Vantage is a leading provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) that serves multiple industries in a variety of testing and research environments.

 

ClinInvent Services: Synchronised to their sponsor's objectives.

The Clinical Trial Management team is the lifeblood and the primary focus area for ClinInvent. With team members having extensive experience in managing multi-centric global clinical trial projects, in a number of therapeutic areas, the driving force for this team is their sponsors.

 

Their Clinical Trial Management team maintains a professional and friendly atmosphere with a great deal of emphasis on teamwork and mutual support. The team consists of dedicated, qualified and experienced managers and Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) with excellent scientific/medical background, possessing a thorough understanding of local clinical trial regulations and ICH GCP guidelines.


They commit their selves unreservedly to the success of each sponsor program, with an unshakable dedication to quality service, integrity and innovation. Every effort is made from the outset to ensure an implicit understanding of the sponsor's goals as well as the specific requirements of the project concerned. The projects are managed with as much attention to delivery dates as to deliverables. This is made possible because each and every member of their team strives to maintain high quality standards through systems reviews, ensuring clean and accurate documentation, prompt follow-up and proactive reporting.

 

The scope of activities for the Clinical Trial Management team covers:

 

Ø       Total project management

Ø       Site feasibility

Ø       Investigator selection

Ø       Regulatory and Ethics committee submission

Ø       Site contract and budget negotiations

Ø       Management of Clinical Trial Supplies & Investigational products

Ø       Investigators meeting

Ø       Site initiation visits

Ø       Monitoring

Ø       Site close out visits

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

ClinInvent partners with Afferenz

 

News Bureau Mumbai

 

Afferenz, a strategic business unit of Megasoft, which addresses the data and information management needs of lifesciences companies, announced a strategic partnership with ClinInvent Research.

 

They will jointly address the market needs for clinical trial data management services and biostatistics. Afferenz's portfolio of software based clinical trials solutions together with the data management practices of ClinInvent Research promises to bring in a comprehensive offering to customers in the area of data management services.

"With the increasing growth of outsourced clinical trials from overseas into India, this partnership will eliminate the customers' problems of co-ordinating with multiple entities from a distance," said Kallol Biswas, Vice-President, Afferenz. "ClinInvent's knowledge and experience in clinical trials data management services together with our integrated clinical trials solution, Acceliant will offer a complete solution from a single point to our customers, especially those in the US where we have a large footprint," he adds. Afferenz's Acceliant eClinical Suite is a comprehensive solution that offers users real-time efficiency, ease of use in trial design, flexibility, regulatory compliance, and the unique ability to integrate multi-modal electronic data capture (EDC), data management, trial management, online image analysis and document management with traditional paper-based processes.

 

ClinInvent, a part of TCG Lifesciences, is a full fledged contract research organisation, which provides comprehensive clinical services in clinical trial management, data management, bio-statistics, medical writing, pharmacovigilance, quality assurance and GCP training. "ClinInvent's data management expertise is enhanced by the addition of Acceliant. And the strategic partnership with Afferenz provides us with an opportunity to move fast into global EDC arena," said Dr Arun Bhatt, President, ClinInvent.

 

ClinInvent inks deal with MDS Pharma 5/4/2005 3:17:16 PM IST

 

ClinInvent Research, a Mumbai-based Contract Research Oorganization (CRO), has entered into a tie-up with MDS Pharma Services, a leading North American CRO, to be a preferred partner for the Indian subcontinent.

The tie-up gives ClinInvent an international presence which will enable it to secure more global projects. For MDS it ensures a presence in the fast growing Indian market to offer drug development services to support the domestic and international biopharmaceutical industry.

 

ClinInvent Research is part of the New York-based The Chatterjee Group. Headquartered in Mumbai it is a leading CRO providing full clinical trial and data management services.

 

Dr Arun Bhatt, President, ClinInvent Research, said, "ClinInvent sees this as a significant development and we hope to bring our extensive knowledge of India's medical research community, biopharmaceutical industry, and regulatory environment to the global biopharmaceutical industry. It will also assist in establishing India as an important location for multinational pharmaceutical companies to include in their multi-centre, global trials."

 

Reacting to the tie-up, Dr Greg Voinov, GM, MDS Pharma Services Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia Pacific said, "MDS is committed to expanding into emerging markets such as India in support of the biopharmaceutical industry's development goals. It will also allow MDS to offer faster patient recruitment solutions across a wide spectrum of therapeutic areas."

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.40.91

UK Pound

1

Rs.81.46

Euro

1

Rs.55.42

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

3

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

3

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

2

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

5

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

-

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

3

--LEVERAGE

1~10

3

--RESERVES

1~10

2

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

2

--MARGINS

-5~5

-

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

NO

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

23

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average/normal.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

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