Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Gets Sebi Nod for IPO
New Delhi: State-run Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) has received approval of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to raise funds through an initial public offering (IPO).
The steel maker had filed its draft papers with the capital market regulator for the proposed public offer in September.
Sebi issued its final 'observations' on the draft red-herring prospectus (DRHP) documents on December 22, according to the latest update by Sebi.
Issuance of 'observations' on offer documents by Sebi is considered as a clearance to the issuer to go ahead with the share issues through routes like IPOs, FPOs and rights issue.
Under the proposed IPO, the government would offload 48,89,84,620 shares through an offer for sale, of which 35 per cent will be reserved for retail investors and 50 per cent for qualified institutional buyers.
A discount of up to five per cent on the offer price shall be offered to retail investors.
As per the DRHP filed with Sebi, the government will sell 10 per cent of its stake in the company and the entire proceeds through the issue would go the exchequer.
The IPO of state-owned steel maker RINL is scheduled to hit the markets in the current fiscal year (2014-15), and the Cabinet has already given its approval for the stake sale.
The issue will be managed by UBS Securities India Pvt Ltd and Deutsche Equities (India) Pvt Ltd.
Last week, officials had said that as RINL was still assessing damage caused by recent Hudhud cyclone to its plant at Visakhapatnam, the government has decided to defer IPO.
"The new timeline for the IPO of RINL would be drawn up after the company ascertains the damage," an official had said.
The 10 per cent government stake sale through IPO is now likely to take place sometime in the next financial year, the official added.
Cyclone Hudhud hit Andhra Pradesh on October 12, forcing RINL to stop production at its lone facility at Visakhapatnam due to failure of power supply.
According to estimates, its impact on the state-run steel maker's profitability was about Rs 350 crore.
