SBI Life
Insurance IPO to open on September 20, 2017
SBI Life Insurance, a
subsidiary of the country’s largest lender SBI, will hit the capital market on
2017, September 20 to raise up to Rs. 8,400 crore.
The initial share sale
offer will open on September 20, 2017 and close on September 22, 2017 SBI said
in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges.
This would be the second
listing of a life insurer after ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, which went
public last year.
According to sources,
SBI Life Insurance has fixed a price range of Rs. 685 to Rs. 700 for the IPO.
At the upper end of the
price band, the company is expected to raise Rs. 8,400 crore.
SBI Life’s public issue
involves its promoters offloading up to 12 crore shares of face value of Rs. 10
each through the offer of sale route, as per the draft offer documents.
State Bank of India
(SBI) will dilute up to 8 crore shares while BNP Paribas Cardif SA will offload
up to 4 crore.
SBI Life Insurance is a
joint venture between India’s largest lender SBI and BNP Paribas Cardif
(BNPPC) the insurance holding company of
France.
SBI holds 70.10 per cent
in SBI Life and BNPPC 26 per cent. Minority shareholders Value Life Pte, an
affiliate of KKR Asian Fund and MacRitchie Investments Pte, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, hold 1.95% each.
Explaining the rationale
behind the IPO, SBI Life had said the company wants to achieve the benefits of
listing equity shares on the stock exchanges.
“The listing of equity
shares will enhance the ‘SBI Life’ brand name and provide liquidity to the
existing shareholders.
The listing will also
provide a public market for equity shares in India,” the company had said.
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