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Blackstone-backed SH Kelkar’s IPO oversubscribed 83% on day 2

By TEAM VCC

  • 29 Oct 2015
Blackstone-backed SH Kelkar’s IPO oversubscribed 83% on day 2
Credit: Courtesy: SH Kelkar

The initial public offering (IPO) of S.H. Kelkar & Co. Pvt Ltd, a Mumbai-based maker of fragrances and flavours, was oversubscribed 83 per cent on the second day of its issue led by non-retail investors, data available with the stock exchanges showed.

The portion reserved for non-institutional investors was fully covered at the end of day one but barely nudged up on the second day. Qualified institutional buyers led the show on Thursday, bidding for 4.6 times the portion reserved for them. Retail investors' quota was subscribed less than half.

The company opened its IPO in a price band of Rs 173-180 a share. The issue closes on October 30.

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S.H. Kelkar & Co had raised Rs 152.45 crore ($23.4 million) from a clutch of anchor investors on the eve of the public issue. It allotted shares at the upper end of the price band to various domestic mutual funds as well as foreign institutional investors including T Rowe Price and Smallcap World Fund.

Earlier, the company had made minor changes to its IPO to raise a tad more than initially planned. The firm is now looking to raise Rs 210 crore against Rs 200 crore as proposed earlier. While its private equity investor Blackstone has maintained the terms of its shares offered for sale, the promoter Vaze family will now sell 3.3 million shares against the previous plan to offload 2.3 million shares.

For Blackstone, the world's largest alternative assets manager, this would mark the first liquidity event in India through an IPO. Two years ago, it had explored a similar part-exit through a proposed public issue of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd but later opted for a secondary deal where Bain Capital bought it out.

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JM Financial and Kotak Mahindra Capital are the bankers to the issue.

Click here for more details on the company and the IPO.

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