MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

12.11.2007

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SYMANTEC SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Formerly Known As :

VERITAS SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

Symphony Survey No. 210, A/1, Opposite Vrindavan Society Range Hills Pune – 411020, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2007

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

12.09.1995

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

11-92611

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U72200MH1995PTC092611

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

PNEV04026B

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AAACV6015F

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Liability Company.

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject is engaged in Providing of Research and Development Services and Technical Support Services.

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

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

Satisfactory

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 10000000

 

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is an established and reputed software development company having fine track. Trade relations are fair. Financial position is good. Payments are usually correct and as per commitment.

 

The company can be considered good for any normal business dealings.

 

It can be regarded as a promising business partner in a medium to long-run. 

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

Symphony Survey No. 210, A/1, Opposite Vrindavan Society Range Hills Pune – 411020, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-20-25520180 / 25538136 / 25536404

Fax No.:

91-20-25536404 / 25520190

E-Mail :

info@veritas.com

shekhar_dhore@symantec.com

vijender_sahu@symantec.com

tanu_arora@symantec.com

Website :

http://www.symantec.com

 

 

Administrative Office :

Mayfair Towers, Bombay Pune Road, Shivaji Nagar, Wakdewadi, Pune - 411 005, Maharashtra.

Tel. No.:

91-20-25530203

 

 

Software Development Center :

Unit No. 217, "Bonanza", Sahar Plaza Complex, M. V. Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400 059.

Tel. No.:

 91-22-28303025 / 28 / 37 / 26950227 / 30

Fax No.:

91-22-28303043

 

 

Overseas Office :

Located at :

 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Middle East, Peoples Republic of China, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland. France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, U. K., Washington, Wisconsin, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand

 

 

Branches :

Aundh Road, Bhau Patil Marg, Pune-411020, Maharashtra, India

Tel No :- 91-20-25822485/24055600

Fax No :- 91-20-25822485/24055595

 

Bund Garden Road, Next to Ruby Hall, Pune-411001, Maharashtra, India

Tel No : 91-20-24066999/26050100

Fax No : 91-20-24066985/86/26050090/91

 

RMZ Icon Project, S/No 3/8, Baner Road, Pune – 411008, India

Tel No.: 91-22-25538136

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Sharad Sharma

Designation :

Director

Address :

52, Shalimar Apartments, 3 D’Souza Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Date of Birth/Age :

04.04.1964

Date of Appointment :

30.03.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mark Bregman

Designation :

Director

Address :

720, Bair Island Road, Apartment 101 Redwood City, CA-94063, USA

Date of Appointment :

30.03.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Jay Jones

Designation :

Director

Address :

2734, Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, CA-94705, USA

Date of Appointment :

20.02.1998

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anand Madhukar Gadgil

Designation :

Director

Address :

Royash Apartments, Flat No. 6, Anand Krupa Society, Paud Road, Pune-411038

Date of Appointment :

16.04.1997

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anil Srinivasa Chakravarthy

Designation :

Additional Director

Address :

1522 Flamingo Way, Sunnyvale, California – 094087, US

Date of Birth/Age :

08.12.1967

Date of Appointment :

25.04.2006

 

 

Name :

Mr. Stephen Markowski

Designation :

Director

Address :

191, Vista Del Monte Los Gatos, California

 

 

Name :

Mr. Arthur Courville

Designation :

Director

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

Names of Shareholders

 

No. of Shares

Veritas Software Global Corporation

 

8599980

Veritas Operating Corporation

 

15276550

Total

 

23876530

 

 

 

Equity Share Breakup

 

 

Category

 

Percentage of Holding

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

 

100.00

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Subject is engaged in Providing of Research and Development Services and Technical Support Services.

 

 

Products :

v      Software Development & Services

v      Research & Development

v      Technical Support Service

 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

No. of Employees :

About 750

 

 

Bankers :

v      IDBI Bank limited, IDBI House, Dyaneshwar Paduka Chowk, F.C. Road, Pune –     411004Bank of India, Pune, Maharashtra 

 

v      State Bank of India, Pune, Maharashtra

 

v      ABN Amro Bank, Pune, Maharashtra 

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Good

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Bharat S Raut and Company

Chartered Accountants

Address :

KPMG House, Kamala Mills Compound, 448 Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai-400013, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-24913030/3131/24988368

Fax No.:

91-22-24913132

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

v      Veritas Software Global Corporation

v      Veritas Software Solutions Private Limited

 

 

Parent Company :

VERITAS Software Corporation

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

83,000,000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- Each

Rs. 830.000 Millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

23,876,530

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- Each

Rs. 238.765 Millions

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

238.765

238.765

238.765

2] Share Application Money

588.916

588.916

0.282

3] Reserves & Surplus

1758.243

1192.729

927.609

4] (Accumulated Losses)

0.000

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

2585.924

2020.410

1166.656

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

0.000

0.000

0.000

2] Unsecured Loans

0.000

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

0.000

0.000

0.000

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

78.277

92.432

22.221

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

2664.201

2112.842

1188.877

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

1568.001

1544.814

1081.423

Capital work-in-progress

73.986

39.963

8.901

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

10.110

10.110

10.110

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

0.000

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

0.000

0.000

1.154

 

Sundry Debtors

949.987

685.346

110.831

 

Cash & Bank Balances

235.320

227.799

161.015

 

Other Current Assets

1.342

0.785

0.257

 

Loans & Advances

361.584

379.902

284.778

Total Current Assets

1548.233

1293.832

558.035

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

452.637

589.312

372.811

 

Provisions

83.492

186.565

96.787

Total Current Liabilities

536.129

775.877

469.598

Net Current Assets

1012.104

517.955

88.437

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

0.000

0.000

0.006

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

2664.201

2112.842

1188.877

 

PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

PARTICULARS

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

Sales Turnover

4329.145

2957.567

1866.856

Total Income

4329.145

2957.567

1866.856

 

 

 

 

Profit/(Loss) Before Tax

742.885

433.049

178.212

Provision for Taxation

177.371

167.929

40.491

Profit/(Loss) After Tax

565.514

265.120

137.721

 

 

 

 

Earnings in Foreign Currency :

 

 

 

Total Earnings

4114.692

2894.291

1843.309

 

 

 

 

Imports :

 

 

 

Total Imports

678.702

973.546

--

 

 

 

 

Expenditures :

 

 

 

 

Depreciation & Amortization

0.000

701.928

456.611

 

Other Expenditure

3586.260

1822.591

1232.034

Total Expenditure

3586.260

2524.519

1688.645

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2007

31.03.2006

31.03.2005

PAT / Total Income

(%)

13.06

8.96

7.38

 

 

 

 

 

Net Profit Margin

(PBT/Sales)

(%)

17.16

14.64

9.55

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

(%)

23.84

15.26

10.87

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

0.29

0.21

0.15

 

 

 

 

 

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

0.21

0.38

0.40

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

2.89

1.67

1.19

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

 

Formerly known as Veritas Software India Private Limited and changed into present name Symantec Software India Private Limited w.e.f. October 24, 2007

 

Business

 

To carry on business of software development services, selling of Software packages and research and development activities as regards software development and computer systems and to carry on business as computer programmers, data processors, system analyst and to provide services for establishing Management Information Systems. 

 

Name of the company

VERITAS SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Presented By

MR. A. G. GADGIL, COMPANY SECRETARY

1) Date and description of instrument creating the change

Agreement of Hypothecation of goods and assets dated 28.01.2000

2) Amount secured by the charge/amount owing on the securities of charge

Rs. 15.000 Millions

3) Short particular of the property charged. If the property acquired is subject to charge, date of the acquired of the property should be given

Present and future goods, book debts and all other movable assets, title documents of the goods, receivable including receivable under any scheme, drawbacks.

4) Gist of the terms and conditions and extent and operation of the charge.

Margin of Security 10 %, Charge as per FEDAI Routes

5) Name and Address and description of the person entitled to the charge.

IDBI Bank limited

IDBI House, Dyaneshwar Paduka Chowk,

F.C. Road, Pune – 411004

6) Date  and brief description of instrument modifying the charge

Supplemental agreement of Hypothecation of goods and assets for increase in overall limits dated 15.06.2005

7) Particulars of modifications specifying the terms and conditions or the extent of operations of the charge in which modification is made and the details of the modification.

Original charge created on 28.01.2000 is further modified by supplemental agreement dated 15.06.2005 increasing the limit from Rs. 15.000 Millions to Rs. 70.000 Millions.

Other terms and conditions remains the same. 

 

Name of the company

VERITAS SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Presented By

MR. A. G. GADGIL, COMPANY SECRETARY

1) Date and description of instrument creating the change

Agreement of Hypothecation of goods and assets dated 28.01.2000

2) Amount secured by the charge/amount owing on the securities of charge

Rs. 15.000 Millions

3) Short particular of the property charged. If the property acquired is subject to charge, date of the acquired of the property should be given

Present and future goods, book debts and all other movable assets, title documents of the goods, receivable including receivable under any scheme, drawbacks.

4) Gist of the terms and conditions and extent and operation of the charge.

Margin of Security 10 %, Charge as per FEDAI Routes

5) Name and Address and description of the person entitled to the charge.

IDBI Bank limited

IDBI House, Dyaneshwar Paduka Chowk,

F.C. Road, Pune – 411004

6) Date  and brief description of instrument modifying the charge

NA

7) Particulars of modifications specifying the terms and conditions or the extent of operations of the charge in which modification is made and the details of the modification.

NA

 

AS PER WEBSITE

 

About Symantec:

Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.

Symantec employs over 15,500 employees worldwide, with research and development facilities located in over 12 countries including India.

Symantec Pune:
The Symantec Pune centre comprises of over 1500 world class professionals actively engaged in

Symantec in India has established a Strong brand as Employer of Choice based on its W2C2 model that focuses on:

Subject is a wholly owned subsidiary of Veritas Software, USA With state of the art development facilities, informal working environment, excellent compensation packages and challenging assignments make it one of the most attractive destinations for dedicated professionals.

 

VERITAS Software USA

 

Founded in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Company has grown to over 4,500 employees residing in 17 countries worldwide. Included in its rapid growth are the significant acquisitions of the Network and Storage Management Group of Seagate Software on May 28, 1999 and Open Vision Technologies in April 1997. Revenues exceeded $210 million in FY98 and, for the second consecutive year, the Company ranked as one of Forbes' 200 Best Small Companies in America with an overall ranking of 12, including the second-highest ranking market value (Forbes, November 22, 1998). Over the past decade, VERITAS Software has become the largest and fastest-growing storage-management software company and became part of the Nasdaq-100 Index in January 1999. With a $3.37 billion market capitalization (Feb 6, 1999), VERITAS Software has been on the "Hot Growth Companies" list at BusinessWeek magazine for four consecutive years, debuting in 1996 at 59 and steadily acending to position 30 in 1999; and was featured as the second most dynamic software company in the Forbes

 

ASAP "Dynamic 100" list (Forbes ASAP, April 5, 1999).

 

VERITAS Software is the de-facto standard for application storage management, with over 60 of the world's leading servers and operating systems integrating its software. To ensure integrated, out-of-the-box application storage management solutions, VERITAS Software is a premier strategic partner with all major industry drivers. The Company's OEM customers and strategic alliances include industry pacesetters from the device level to high-end UNIX vendors. VERITAS Software provides continuous availability of business-critical information for companies of all sizes from some of the world's best-known blue-chip corporations to business managers to IT professionals. VERITAS Software provides these customers with enterprise-class application storage management software solutions that they can rely on and appeases their desire to work with a company that not only cares about them, but also exhibits integrity - VERITAS translates to "Truth."

 

Parent Company

 

+                  VERITAS Software Corporation

 

1600, Plymouth Street, Mountain View, California, USA.

It was founded in 1989 to develop and market high availability products.  In April, 1997, it merged with OpenVision Technologies, expanding its own backup and hierarchical storage management solutions with OpenVision’s operating system-level data management and clustering products in a strategy designed to provide end-to-end storage management solutions for enterprise customers.

 

In May, 1999, it further extended its end-to-strategy with the acquisition of the network and Storage Management Group of Seagate Software.  That merger enabled the company to quickly diversify from its core UNIX solutions into the Windows NT and NetWare spaces. Integration of the companies' product lines has enabled the company to offer enterprises the ability to use a common product across multiple operating platforms for ease of administration and economies of scale.

 

It has been listed on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol VRTS since 1993. It was added to the Nasdaq-100 Index in January 1999 and to the S&P 500 Index in March 2000. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Mountain View, California.

 

Subject is the leading provider of storage management software for data protection, application availability and disaster recovery.  Over 86% of the Fortune 500 companies rely on its storage management solutions which offers proven interoperability across diverse applications, servers, storage hardware and appliances.  With more than 5700 employees in 31 countries and annualised revenues of $ 1.5 billion in 2001, it ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world.

Subject is widely recognized as one of the fastest growing companies with industry-leading products. As a testament to this leadership, its products continue to gain awards and recognition throughout the world.

 

VERITAS Software Venture Capital Group

 

Created in February 2000 with an initial allocation of $100 million, the VERITAS Software Venture Capital Group focuses on early to mid-stage companies that have the potential to be leaders in a segment of the data availability market.

 

VERITAS Software Foundation

 

In an effort to promote philanthropy and to give back to local communities, the company has established the VERITAS Software Foundation, a private, non-profit organization.

 

Its’ product range includes :

 

Storage Management

 

It leads the market in providing highly interoperable, storage management solutions that can work seamlessly across the entire infrastructure.0

 

Data Protection

 

It is the market leader in providing data-protection solutions to ensure the data is protected against any type of failure.

 
High Availability

 

It is the market leader in providing high availability solutions to protect against planned and unplanned downtime.

 
Disaster Recovery

 

It delivers end-to-end disaster recovery solutions to ensure the data is protected and available, even in the most difficult situations.

 

 

 


 

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.39.33

UK Pound

1

Rs.81.70

Euro

1

Rs.57.67

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

5

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

6

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

6

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

8

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

5

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

5

--LEVERAGE

1~10

5

--RESERVES

1~10

7

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

6

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

YES

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

53

 

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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