ICICI Lombard to debut on bourses on September 27

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company is set to debut on the bourses on September 27. It has set final issue price at Rs 661 per share, the higher end of price band.

Analysts don't expect strong listing gains as the initial share sale offer that ended last week was oversubscribed 3 times. In addition, equity markets have been subdued from last week, they said.

The reserved portion of qualified institutional investors has oversubscribed 8.17 times while the retail category showed a subscription of 1.22 times and non-institutional investors 0.82 times.

The Rs 5,700-crore public issue, which was opened during September 15-19, had a price band at Rs 651-661 per share.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance is a joint venture between ICICI Bank and Canadian NRI Prem Watsa-promoted Fairfax Financial Holdings.

The initial public offering of up to 8,62,47,187 equity shares comprised of an offer for sale of up to 3,17,61,478 shares by ICICI Bank and up to 5,44,85,709 shares by FAL Corporation (a nominee of Fairfax), constituting 19 percent of post-offer paid-up equity share capital.

Post issue, the holding of ICICI Bank and FAL, the selling shareholders, reduced to 55.92 percent from 62.92 percent and to 9.91 percent from 21.91 percent, respectively.

This was the second public offer from the ICICI Bank group. Its life insurance subsidiary ICICI Prudential had raised Rs 6,000 crore through an IPO in September 2016.

The book running lead managers to the issue are CLSA India Private, Edelweiss Financial Services and JM Financial Institutional Securities.