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LIC to file draft IPO papers with SEBI next month

By Dolly Chhabda      05 October, 2021 02:58 PM      0 Comments
LIC to file draft IPO papers with SEBI next month

Country's largest insurer, LIC likely to file draft papers with Sebi by November for the largest IPO in country's history, a finance ministry official has said.

“We target to bring the IPO within this fiscal and we have set strict timelines. The DRHP would be filed by November," the official stated.

Last month, the government appointed 10 merchant bankers, including Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Pvt Ltd, Citigroup Global Markets India Pvt Ltd and Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India) Pvt Ltd to manage the mega initial public offering of country's largest insurer LIC.

Other selected bankers include SBI Capital Market Ltd, JM Financial Ltd, Axis Capital Ltd, BofA Securities, J P Morgan India Pvt Ltd, ICICI Securities Ltd, and Kotak Mahindra Capital Co Ltd.

By January, merchant bankers will hold global and domestic road shows for investors, once the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) is filed, the official said.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has been appointed as legal advisor for the IPO.

The government is aiming to list the insurance behemoth within the current financial year ending March.

The official said:

"The ministry is in the process of estimating the embedded value of the life insurer and once that is done the ministerial panel on disinvestment will decide on the government stake that will be divested through IPO."

The government has appointed actuarial firm Milliman Advisors LLP India to compute the embedded value of LIC ahead of the initial public offering.

The government is also mulling allowing foreign investors to pick up stakes in country's largest insurer LIC. As per Sebi rules, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) are permitted to buy shares in a public offer. However, since the LIC Act has no provision for foreign investments, there is a need to align the proposed LIC IPO with Sebi norms regarding foreign investor participation.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had in July cleared the initial public offering proposal of Life Insurance Corp of India.

The listing of LIC will be crucial for the government in meeting its disinvestment target of ₹1.75 lakh crore for 2021-22 (April-March).

So far this fiscal year, ₹9,110 crore has been mopped up through minority stake sales in PSU and sale of SUUTI stake in Axis Bank. 



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