The sub-₹100 crore acquisition market, sized
A steady, court-run market for whole companies — 150 plans under ₹1 crore, counted live from the archive.
The loudest IBC headlines belong to the whales — but the volume lives at the small end. As of today, 1,117 resolutions on the record closed with a plan value to creditors of ₹100 crore or less, 137 of them inside the last twelve months. This is not an occasional event; it is a steady, court-run market for whole companies at price points accessible to individuals, family offices and small funds.
Recovery in the bracket is respectable against the statutory floor: across sub-₹100 Cr resolutions where both figures are published, plans returned 112.4% of liquidation value in aggregate — creditors did better accepting these plans than shutting the companies down. And the acquisitions are not paper exits: 879 of these companies are MCA-active today, still filing, still operating under their new owners.
For context, the whole resolved universe stands at 1,531 cases with a median creditor haircut of 77.3% — the price of distress is real. Smaller deals are common too: 150 approved plans on the record provided under ₹1 crore to creditors, counted live. A buyer’s full outlay (CIRP costs, working capital, any fresh equity) comes on top of that. The pipeline for the next ones — newly admitted companies and open Expression of Interest (EoI) windows — refreshes weekly.