India’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) is set to take an equity stake of at least 15 percent in Jet Airways India Ltd. as lenders to the carrier plan to convert part of their loans into equity, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Under a new rescue deal in the works, the nation’s biggest full-service airline’s founder Chairman Naresh Goyal’s stake will fall below 20 percent from the current 51 percent, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is not public. Etihad Airways PJSC, the current equity partner with 24 percent stake, is expected to infuse additional funds to take its total holding to more than 40 percent, they said.