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Inside Gautam Adani’s $200 Billion Succession Plan

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast: the Indian billionaire unveils one of the world’s most ambitious wealth transfers, even as controversies continue to swirl around his company.

Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, at the company's headquarters in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Saturday, May 25, 2024.Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

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By Naomi Ng, Yang Yang, K Oanh Ha, Jessica Beck, and Alexander Sugiura

August 4, 2024 at 11:33 PM UTC

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August 5, 2024 at 2:01 AM UTC

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Gautam Adani, the controversial Indian billionaire, gathered his two sons and two nephews for a family lunch one day and asked them a bombshell question: Did they want to carve up the Adani Group’s sprawling businesses between themselves and part ways? Or did they want to stick together? He gave them three months to decide.