Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Issue Composition:
Deciding the issue composition - Primary and/or Offer for Sale
IPO dilution to be achieved through either by:
Fixing Issue Size in Amount (Variable Dilution), OR
Fixing Number of shares to be issued (Fixed Dilution)
Investor Bucket Sizes
Allocation in the net offer to public category: 50% or 75% to QIBs as the case maybe
60% of the QIB portion (i.e. 30% OR 45% of issue size) can be allocated to anchor investors.
Option to include reservation for anchor investor on a discretionary basis
For the first 250 crore Min 5 and max upto 15 Rs 5 crore
Every incremental Rs 250 crore Max upto 10
Mutual Fund Reservations
• ◼ Issuer
• special Resolution has been passed by the Shareholders
• the issuer is in compliance with the conditions for continuous listing
• the issuer has obtained the Permanent Account Number of the proposed allottees before making in-
principle application with stock exchanges
• allotment shall be (a) fully paid-up & (b) to be in dematerialized mode only
• None of its promoters or directors are fugitive economic offender
• There should be any outstanding dues to SEBI, stock exchanges and depositories.
Allottee
• ◼ all the equity shares, if any, held by the proposed allottee in the issuer are in dematerialized form prior to
making in-principle application with stock exchanges;
• ultimate beneficial owner to be disclosed in notice to shareholders
• subscription money to come from allottee’s own account even in case of conversion of loan (i.e. loan is
received from allottee’s bank account)
• allottee (except for MFs, SCBs ) should not have sold or transferred any equity shares of the issuer during
the 90 trading days preceding the relevant date [incase of promoter, no sale individually as well as by any
member of the Promoter Group, except pursuant to (a) an inter-se exempt under SEBI Takeover
Regulations & (b) on account of invocation of pledge by SCB//systemically important NBFC/MFs/
• In case Promoter /Promoter group has failed to exercise warrants allotted earlier then no preferential
allotment for one year from
• • the date of expiry of the tenure of the warrants due to non-exercise of the option to convert
• • the date of cancellation of the warrants, as the case may be
Regulations for Preferential Issue shall not apply in
these cases
• ◼ Conversion of a loan or an option attached to convertible debt instruments, if such option of conversion have been approved by the
shareholders before issuance of debt instruments or raising such loan;
• Scheme approved by a High Court or approved by a tribunal or the Central Government
• Pricing provisions shall apply to the issuance of shares under schemes in case of allotment of shares only to a select group of shareholders or
shareholders of unlisted companies pursuant to such schemes
• QIP in accordance with SEBI ICDR Regulations
• Rehabilitation scheme approved by the BIFR under the SICA or the resolution plan approved under IBC, whichever is applicable. The
lock-in provisions, shall however, be applicable
• In case of preferential issuance to any financial institution pursuant to Recovery of Debts due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act,
1993 (51 of 1993), pricing and lock-in shall not apply
• Preferential issue to lenders (i.e. scheduled commercial banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks) and All India Financial Institutions
pursuant to conversion of their debt, as part of a debt restructuring implemented in accordance with the guidelines specified by the RBI,
subject to the following
• Guidelines for determining the conversion price have been specified by RBI in accordance with which the conversion price shall be
determined and which shall be in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013
• Conversion price shall be certified by 2 independent valuers
• Lock-in for a period of one year from the date of their allotment. Lenders can for the purpose of transferring the control, transfer the
specified securities before completion of the lock-in period, subject to continuation of the lock-in for the remaining period, with the
transferee;
• Lock-in of equity shares allotted pursuant to conversion of convertible securities issued on preferential basis shall be reduced to the extent the
convertible securities have already been locked-in;
Pros Cons
✓Discretionary allocation enabling the Floor Price is driven by SEBI formula. SEBI
Company to bring in quality long only formula gives weightage
investors to a) 90 trading days VWAP pricing or b) 10
✓The shares issued are not subject trading days VWAP
to lock-in, however should be Lock-in: Shares issued in the preferential
traded only on the stock market issue are subject to lock-in and existing
shareholding of the allottees is also subject
✓Relative to Rights issue and preferential lock-in (18 months for Promoters and 6
issue helps in broadening of investor months for other shareholders).
base resulting in better price discovery Not an equitable manner of participation
✓Price risk is least as compared to Rights since public are not
Issue, Preferential Issue and FPO offered a chance to participate
Investors are to be identified upfront
Qualified Institutional Placement-Regulatory
Framework
Pros Cons
Eligible Securities Equity
NCD & Warrants
Convertible securities other than warrants
• Allotment only to Qualified Institutional Buyers as defined in the SEBI ICDR rules.
• Promoter / Promoter Group / any person related to promoter of the Issuer cannot participate in the QIP
even if categorised as a QIB.
• Allotment
• Minimum 10% to be allotted to Mutual Funds
• Promoter QIBs / QIBs already holding rights under an existing ShareholdingAgreement / veto rights /
right to appoint nominee director to be excluded, except in the capacity of a lender
• No single allottee to be allotted more than 50% of the issue size
QIBs belonging to the same group or those under same control deemed
to be a single allottee
Qualified Institutional Buyer
Mutual funds
Venture capital fund
Alternative investment fund
Foreign venture capital investor registered with SEBI
FPI other than individuals, corporate bodies and family offices
Public financial institution
Scheduled commercial bank
Multilateral and bilateral development financial institution
State industrial development corporation
Provident fund with minimum corpus of INR 25 crores
Pension fund with minimum corpus of INR 25 crores
National Investment Fund set up by resolution no. F. No. 2/3/2005-DDII dated November 23, 2005 of the Government of India
Insurance companies registered with the IRDA or Department of Posts, India
Insurance funds set up and managed by army, navy or air force
Systemically important non-banking financial companies (i.e. NBFCs whose asset size is 500 crores or more as per audited balance
sheet
Other considerations
• Placement Document
• ⮲ Private, provided to select investors through numbered copies
• ⮲ Should contain all material information including as specified in the SEBI ICDR Regulations and rules made under
Companies Act, 2013 ⮲ To be placed on the website of the concerned stock exchange(s) and of the Issuer Company
• ◼ Merchant Banker
• ⮲ Process To be managed by a Merchant Banker registered with SEBI
• ⮲ To submit due diligence certificate to stock exchanges
• ◼ Issuer
• ⮲ Certificateto be submitted to stock exchanges stating that placement is being made as per SEBI ICDR
Regulations, and all requirements are being complied with
• ⮲ To submit documents / undertakings for in-principle and final approval for listing, to the relevant stock exchanges
• ◼ Financials
•⮲ Last 3 years Audited Consolidated Financials and latest quarter limited reviewed financials disclosed to the stock
exchanges ⮲ No restatement of accounts is required
• ◼ Impact of Companies Act 2013
• ⮲ Additional disclosures as required under PAS-4 of Companies Act 2013, to be disclosed in the Offer Document
• Rights Issue
Pros of Rights Issue
• ✓ Provides equitable opportunity to all shareholders to participate in the issue and ensures rightful
distribution of wealth
• ✓ Unlike a preferential issue or QIP, Rights issue provides high flexibility on pricing to help build
investor interest
• ✓ The shares issued are not subject to lock-in
• ✓ Provides opportunity to Promoters to increase the stake at very attractive pricing
• In case of under subscription- Promoters can subscribe to unsubscribed portion at attractive right price
without the obligation of triggering open offer
• In case of over subscription- Promoters can still creep in by 5% voting rights annually post completion
of Rights Issue
Cons of Rights Issue
• Promoter & Promoter Group to mandatorily subscribe to their rights entitlement and shall not renounce
their rights
• No further issue of specified securities during the period between date of filing the letter of offer with
SEBI and listing of specified securities unless complete prior disclosure regarding the same
• Upfront disclosures for end use of funds to be made and shall be subject to monitoring, limiting flexibility
• Price risk for ~7 days
• No discretion in terms of allocation of shares
• Further Public Issue
Pros of Further Public Issue
•Free pricing
•✓ Option to select Anchor Investors enables to attract marquee names
•✓ The shares issued are not subject to lock-in, except for Anchor Investors
•✓ Relative to Rights issue, QIP and preferential issue helps in broadening of investor base resulting in
better price discovery
• ✓ Price risk is least as compared to Rights Issue and Preferential Issue
Cons of further Public Offer
• 🗶 No further issue of specified securities during the period between date of filing the letter of offer with
SEBI and listing of specified securities unless complete prior disclosure regarding the same
• 🗶 Upfront disclosures for end use of funds to be made and shall be subject to monitoring, limiting
flexibility
• 🗶 Full blown disclosure document to be created along with restated financials can be time consuming
• 🗶 Intense marketing efforts
• 🗶 Expensive as compared to other modes
Offer for Sale
•
Eligible Sellers for an OFS
• ◼ All promoter/ promoter group entities who are required to increase public shareholding to meet the
minimum public shareholding (“MPS”) requirements
• ◼ The Companies with market capitalization of Rs. 1,000 crores and above, with the threshold of market
capitalization computed as the average daily market capitalization of six months period prior to the month in
which the OFS opens.
• ◼ Any non-promoter shareholder of eligible companies may also offer shares through the OFS
mechanism.
• Irrespective of cooling off period mentioned above, the promoter or promoter group of
companies whose shares are either liquid or illiquid can offer their shares only through OFS or
QIP with a gap of 2 weeks between successive offers
• If the original OFS is made for compliance with MPS norms, the promoter(s) or promoter group
entities are allowed to offer the unsubscribed portion of the OFS only for the purpose of MPS
compliance in the open market with a gap of 2 weeks from the closure of OFS upto 2%