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ICICI Prudential Life Insurance IPO oversubscribed over 10 times on final day

This is the first IPO from a life insurance company in India and one of the largest shares sales of its type in the past six years

Salil Panchal
Published: Sep 21, 2016 07:37:04 PM IST
Updated: Sep 21, 2016 08:00:04 PM IST
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance IPO oversubscribed over 10 times on final day
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The Rs 6,057 crore ICICI Prudential Life Insurance initial public offering (IPO) was lapped up by investors on the last day of its offering on Wednesday. This is the first public offering from a life insurance company in India and one of the largest shares sales of its type in the past six years.
 
Data from the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange showed that the issue was oversubscribed 10.46 times, on Friday evening. Bids were placed for 138.45 crore equity shares, against an issue size of 13.23 crore equity shares.

Retail investors had so far bid for 7.3 crore shares or 1.3 times the quota set out of 5.7 crore shares. The Non-institutional investors’ portion of shares over subscribed nearly 12 times while the qualified institutional buyers (QIB) portion was subscribed over 28 times.

The issue is an offer for sale from ICICI Bank and Prudential Corporation Holdings Ltd. ICICI Bank plans to divest 12.63 percent in the life insurance arm. On March 31 this year, ICICI bank held a 67.6 percent stake in the life insurance arm while Prudential Corp held a near 26 percent stake.

ICICI Prudential had filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Board of India in July and got clearance from the regulator in early September.

The listing of insurance firms will ensure greater transparency of their functioning. The global book running lead managers to the offer were DSP Merrill Lynch and ICICI Securities.

The book running lead managers were CLSA India, Deutsche Equities India, Edelweiss Financial Services, HSBC Securities & Capital Markets (India), IIFL Holdings, JM Financial Institutional Securities, SBI Capital Markets and UBS Securities India.

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