Asia’s Wealthiest Man Is Preparing To Transfer His Financial Legacy

Reliance Industries, India's largest company, is undergoing a generational shift. Concerns over a rekindled family feud cast a cloud on succession arrangements.We explain the details below.
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Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate. He is the current chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable corporation in terms of market capitalization. He is the richest person in Asia and the 13th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $87.2 billion as of May 2023.

Mukesh Ambani understood how to take use of his privileges. He grew the family firm he took over from his father into one of the world’s greatest enterprises, becoming Asia’s richest man. In the interim, Gautam Adani surpassed him, but following suspicions of fraud and the fall of his conglomerate Adani’s shares, Ambani is back in first place. However, the 66-year-old Reliance Industries chairman sees his career coming to an end. He is getting ready to transfer over India’s most valuable publicly traded corporation to his children.

At the group’s annual general meeting last week, Ambani took an important step towards the imminent transition of power: his 31-year-old twins Isha and Akash, as well as his 28-year-old son Anant, will each earn a seat on Reliance’s board.

Akash Ambani, Anant Ambani, Isha Ambani, Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani in one of the rare family pictures from 2017. Source: Getty Images.

 

He wants to be a mentor to his children “so that they can consistently carry Reliance to greater heights,” said Ambani, who envisions himself as CEO for the next five years. With the gradual shift, he’s presumably also trying to prevent family strife, something he’s seen firsthand.

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Idea of “Collective leadership”

Ambani originally left unclear how his children’s positions in the Reliance company transformation would be split. The trio’s “collective leadership” was mentioned by him. According to observers in India, this is an attempt to avoid problems within the family, which owns slightly more than half of Reliance. After all, Ambani is well aware of the risks associated with family feuds. After his father, Dhirubhai Ambani, died in 2002, he fought for years with his brother, Anil Ambani, over corporate authority.

 

Mukesh Ambami and his business Ventures

The 63-year-old Ambani, whose fortune is believed to be worth more than $56 billion, is well-regarded in India’s financial markets. Reliance was a fixture in Indian industry before he entered the mobile phone and e-commerce businesses. Off the subcontinent’s coast, the firm produces oil and gas. Reliance runs the world’s largest oil refinery in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state.With over 10,000 stores, Reliance Retail is India’s largest retailer. The company also owns many news networks, Bollywood film production firms, and the Indian Football League ISL. Ambani has already garnered significant backing in 2020 for his concept of a platform that provides Indians with a wide range of internet services from a single source. The first was Facebook, which paid 5.7 billion dollars for the social network and a roughly 10% share in the Jio platform.

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