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Rs 45,000 crore IPOs set to fuel India Inc’s capex plans, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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The huge fundraise by companies and start-ups through initial public offerings is set to drive the capex engine of India Inc. With abundant liquidity and a rise in stock market fortunes, companies are rushing to raise money via the primary route.

At the forefront of the fundraising are start-ups, which are flocking the stock markets with astronomical valuations, though many such as Zomato are yet to turn a profit. Investors are eager to buy into these IPOs, banking on growth opportunities that digital reach has afforded to these nascent companies.

The startups being listed are joining the broader India Inc, which is on cusp of a burgeoning investment capex cycle as several indicators show.

While a chunk of the IPO money is going as returns to early investors who had bet on the potential of these companies, such as Ant Financial and Softbank offloading stakes through offer for sale in the Paytm IPO, huge capital is being available for further growth initiatives.

IPO rush

At least 30 companies are looking to collectively raise over Rs 45,000 crore through IPOs during October-November. Of the total fundraising, a large chunk would be garnered by technology-driven companies, including FinTechs.

The firms that are expected to raise funds through their IPOs during October-November include Policybazaar (Rs 5,710 crore), Emcure Pharmaceuticals (Rs 4,500 crore) Nykaa (Rs 4,000 crore), CMS Info Systems (Rs 2,000 crore), MobiKwik Systems (Rs 1,900 crore). In addition, Northern Arc Capital (Rs 1,800 crore), Ixigo (Rs 1,600 crore), Sapphire Foods (Rs 1,500 crore), Fincare Small Finance Bank (Rs 1,330 crore), Sterlite Power (Rs 1,250 crore) RateGain Travel Technologies (Rs 1,200 crore) and Supriya Lifescience (Rs 1,200 crore) may float their IPOs during the period under review.~

Fund deployment

While Nykaa has said that it will use the IPO proceeds to set up new retail stores, fund capital spending and repay debts, PolicyBazaar plans to use Rs 1,600 crore of the proceeds to enhance visibility and awareness of its brands including Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, Rs 375 crore will be used for new opportunities to expand growth initiatives to increase its consumer base including offline presence, Rs 600 crore for funding strategic investments and acquisitions and Rs 375 crore for expanding its presence outside India. Keventer Agro will use the proceeds of Rs 155 crore will be used to repay debt and Rs 110.76 crore will be used for funding capital expenditure requirements. Start-up fundraising

The funds raised by Indian unlisted startups have crossed the $10 billion mark spread across 347 deals, according to PwC India. This was twice the amount of funding received in Q3CY20 and was up about 41% over the second-quarter figure.

The increase in funding activity was noted across all sectors, both by value and volume.

Fintech, Edtech and SaaS were the top three hot investment sectors in CY21, together accounting for about 47 per cent of the total funding activity. The fintech sector saw a four-fold increase in funds raised in the first three-quarters of CY21, over the first three-quarters of CY20. Six fintech companies reached unicorn status.

Editors View is a weekly column written by Amol Dethe, Editor, ETCFO. Click here to read his previous columns.



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ESAF SFB, Paytm, Sapphire Foods among 7 firms to get Sebi’s nod for IPO, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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New Delhi: As many as seven companies, including ESAF Small Finance Bank, Sapphire Foods India and Anand Rathi Wealth, have received capital markets regulator Sebi’s nod to raise funds through initial public offerings (IPOs). In addition, PB Fintech, which operates an online insurance platform Policybazaar and credit comparison portal Paisabazaar, Paytm’s parent firm One97 Communications, life sciences company Tarsons Products and HP Adhesives too received Sebi’s clearance to float their IPOs.

These companies, which filed their draft papers with Sebi between July and August, obtained the regulator’s observations during October 18-22, an update with Sebi showed on Monday.

In Sebi’s parlance, the issuance of observation is equivalent to the regulator’s approval.

ESAF Small Finance Bank’s Rs 997.78-crore public issue comprises a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 800 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 197.78 crore by existing shareholders, according to draft red herring prospectus (DRHP).

Under the offer for sale, the promoter will be selling shares worth Rs 150 crore, PNB MetLife would offload shares to the tune of Rs 21.33 crore, Bajaj Allianz Life will offer shares of Rs 17.46 crore, PI Ventures will sell Rs 8.73 crore worth shares and John Chakola will offer shares worth Rs 26 lakh.

The IPO of Sapphire Foods India Ltd, which operates KFC and Pizza Hut outlets, will be entirely an offer of sale (OFS) of 17,569,941 equity shares by promoters and existing shareholders.

As a part of the OFS, QSR Management Trust will sell 8.50 lakh shares, Sapphire Foods Mauritius Ltd will offload 55.69 lakh shares, WWD Ruby Ltd will divest 48.46 lakh shares and Amethyst will offer 39.62 lakh shares.

In addition, AAJV Investment Trust will sell 80,169 shares, Edelweiss Crossover Opportunities Fund will offload 16.15 lakh shares and Edelweiss Crossover Opportunities Fund-Series II will divest 6.46 lakh shares.

The initial share-sale of Anand Rathi Wealth Ltd, part of Mumbai-based financial services group Anand Rathi, is completely an offer for sale of 1.2 crore equity shares by promoters and existing shareholders.

Those offering shares in the offer for sale are — Anand Rathi Financial Services Limited, Anand Rathi, Pradeep Gupta, Amit Rathi, Priti Gupta, Supriya Rathi, Rawal Family Trust, Jugal Mantri and Feroze Azeez.

According to the draft papers, Paytm plans to raise Rs 8,300 crore through fresh issue of equity shares and another Rs 8,300 crore through the offer-for-sale route.

Paytm founder, managing director and chief executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Alibaba group firms will dilute some of their stake in the proposed offer-for-sale.

In addition, investors selling stake include Antfin (Netherlands) Holding BV, Alibaba.Com Singapore E-Commerce Private Ltd, Elevation Capital V FII Holdings Ltd, Elevation Capital V Ltd, SAIF III Mauritius Company Ltd, SAIF Partners India IV Ltd, SVF Panther (Cayman) Ltd and BH International Holdings.

The Rs 6,017.50 crore IPO of PB Fintech comprises a fresh issue of Rs 3,750 crore worth of equity shares and an offer for sale of Rs 2,267.50 crore by existing shareholders.

As part of the OFS, SVF Python II (Cayman) will sell shares worth Rs 1,875 crore, Yashish Dahiya will offer shares worth Rs 250 crore and some other selling shareholders will also divest shares.

Tarsons Products’ IPO comprises fresh issuance of equity shares worth Rs 150 crore and an offer for sale of 1.32 crore equity shares by promoters and an investor.

As a part of the OFS, promoters — Sanjive Sehgal will offload up to 3.9 lakh equity shares and Rohan Sehgal will sell up to 3.1 lakh equity shares — and investor Clear Vision Investment Holdings Pte Ltd will divest up to 1.25 crore equity shares.

HP Adhesives’ initial share-sale consists of fresh issuance of 41.40 lakh equity shares and an offer of sale of 4,57,200 equity shares by promoter Anjana Haresh Motwani.

The company manufactures a wide range of consumer adhesives and sealants products such as PVC, solvent cement, synthetic rubber adhesive, PVA adhesives, silicone sealant, acrylic sealant, gasket shellac, other sealants and PVC pipe lubricant.

The shares of these companies will be listed on the BSE and NSE.



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Policybazaar plans IPO to raise up to Rs 6,500 crore, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Mumbai: PB Fintech, the parent entity of SoftBank-backed online insurance aggregator Policybazaar has approved a resolution to raise up to Rs 6,500 crore, or $870 million, via an initial public offering (IPO), making it the fifth Indian startup this year to initiate proceedings to hit the public markets.

The Policybazaar IPO is expected to be a mix of a fresh issue of shares and an offer for sale (OFS), wherein existing investors can sell their stakes directly through exchanges, according to the regulatory filings.

According to sources, the company is likely to file a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) soon as it eyes going public by December this year.

The online insurance aggregator — like Paytm and Zomato — is also expected to raise a pre-IPO round, which could include a secondary transaction for existing investors to dilute their stakes.

The Gurugram-based firm’s board approved the initial share sale at an extraordinary general meeting that was held on July 5, the regulatory filings showed. The startup has also passed a special resolution to rename as PB Fintech Ltd., converting from private limited to public entity.

A Policybazaar spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to ET’s queries. News website Entrackr was first to report the Policybazaar IPO resolution.

Policybazaar recorded a loss of Rs 218 crore in FY20 against Rs 213 crore in the previous fiscal. The financial results for FY21 are not out yet. The firm recently acquired an insurance broking licence from The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), which is an upgrade from its status as a web aggregator.

The new licence will allow Policybazaar to set up its physical network while also expanding product and service offerings significantly, which include claims assistance and point-of-sale network.

Yashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal, and Avaneesh Nirjar founded Policybazaar in June 2008. The company’s list of investors includes Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund, private equity firm True North, Premji Invest, Tiger Global and Temasek, among others.



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IPO boom prompts ICICI Bank to hire more investment bankers, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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By Baiju Kalesh

India’s second largest private lender ICICI Bank Ltd. is making its biggest hiring push in investment banking and institutional equities in four years, as it anticipates a rise in companies going public.

The Mumbai-based firm plans to add five mid-to-senior level hires in each of the two units, which currently have 130 bankers in total, according to Ajay Saraf, head of investment banking and institutional equities at ICICI Securities Ltd. The new roles will be concentrated in sectors such as technology and health care, he said.

“We have not hired these kinds of numbers since 2017,” Saraf said in a phone interview last week. “We see investor interest disproportionately higher for these sectors in the next 12 months.”

India is joining the global share sale frenzy thanks to ample liquidity in the market with foreign investors and even retail buyers looking for new ideas to invest in. The booming local tech scene, which earlier in April minted six unicorns in a single week, is also expanding the initial public offering pipeline for bankers.

So far in 2021, nearly $3 billion has been raised through IPOs in India, the best start to the year since 2018, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It could even surpass 2020’s $4.6 billion haul as companies such as Zomato Pvt., Policybazaar and Nykaa E-Retail Pvt. are set to go public in Mumbai as as soon as this year, Bloomberg News has reported.

ICICI Securities ranks first for equity offerings in India so far in 2021, according to the Bloomberg league table, a leap from 2020 when it finished 10th.

Saraf expects there to be more deals to go around as high-quality firms come to market in the next three to six months.

“The deal activity on the primary market will be stronger than 2021,” he said. “The number of transactions will be widespread but the rise in volume will depend on the issuers’ decisions on the size.”

The banker doesn’t see those listings taking the form of special purpose acquisition companies. Investors have flooded into SPACs, vehicles that raise money from public listings in order to merge with private companies, and Indian targets are not immune to the frenzy. The country’s biggest renewable power producer ReNew Power agreed to merge with a U.S. SPAC in February, giving it an $8 billion enterprise value, and some bankers in India predict more blank-check firm deals to come.

Saraf is skeptical of a sharp rise in SPAC activity in the country. “What you need for a SPAC is the size, and path to profitability,” he said. “Not many companies pass that muster in India.”



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