Two Indian companies, including the country’s largest private lender ICICI Bank, have raised over four billion dollars last week from the US market. ICICI Bank, in the biggest offering by an Indian company, raised $ 4.3 billion in a global follow-on issue, half of which was in the form of American Depository Shares.
Pricings
The ADS issue of $ 2.14 billion, including a green shoe option of $ 0.32 billion, was priced at $ 49.25 each, translating into a price of about Rs 1,002.5 per equity share and representing a premium of about 6.6 per cent over the domestic issue price. Each ADS represents two equity shares of the Bank.
Trading of the additional ADS began on Monday at the New York Stock Exchange. On Monday, ICICI Bank ADS closed at $ 48.45 down 2.40 per cent at the NYSE. Earlier, Vedanta group’s Sterlite Industries, a non-ferrous metal and mining firm, raised $ 1.75 billion through an initial public offering on the NYSE.
Each ADS represents one equity share of the firm and the were priced at $ 13.44 each. On its first day of trading the Sterlite Industries ADS price rose over nine per cent to $ 14.70 on volume of 28.5 million ADSs. Combining ICICI Bank’s $ 2.46 billion offer and $ 1.75 billion of Sterlite Industries India Ltd, the two firms have mopped up over $ four billion from the US market.