TY - JOUR AB - Subject area Corporate finance, strategic financial management, financial innovation and financial engineering.Study level/applicability The case is suitable for graduate level management students.Case overview In early April 2011, Mr Ramakrishnan, the CFO of Tata Power Ltd and members of his team were busy re-evaluating fundraising options for financing Tata Power's capital expenditure requirements, for refinancing of debt, for working capital related to current projects and for liquidity to support potential acquisition bids. The team had the task of evaluating different innovative funding options as the challenge was to strike a fine balance between maintaining the owners' equity without dilution of control and avoiding any adverse impact on credit rating that could increase the cost of capital; these constraints reduced flexibility for fund raising. Keeping in mind the global market scenario and estimating the investor appetite were factors critical to the structuring of a funding instrument.Expected learning outcomes The case will help students to be comfortable in thinking about evaluating markets, financial instruments and weigh rating considerations and regulatory constraints for taking capital structure decisions.Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. VL - 3 IS - 3 SN - 2045-0621 DO - 10.1108/EEMCS-04-2013-0029 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-04-2013-0029 AU - Joshipura Mayank AU - Sivaraman Vasant AU - Nawani Sameer M. PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/01/01 TI - Tata Power Ltd: innovation in financing growth T2 - Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1 EP - 10 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -