Companies that made their debut on the bourses in the last financial year raised over â¹1,300 crore by way of pre-IPO placements.
This is three times the amount collected through this route in the last fiscal and the highest mop-up since FY17, the year from which data is available. The amount is 1.93 per cent of the funds mobilised through IPOs in FY24.
The previous highest mop-up from such placements was in FY21 when companies raised â¹931 crore, making up 2.95 per cent of the total amount raised through IPOs that year, data from primedatabase.com, a primary market tracker showed.
Companies that garnered the most by way of such placements in FY24 include Rashi Peripherals (â¹150 crore), SBFC Finance (â¹150 crore), Jupiter Life Line Hospitals (â¹123 crore) and Yatharth Hospital & Trauma Care Services (â¹120 crore).
Pre-IPO investing refers to buying shares in a company before the issue actually opens and is typically done after the draft prospectus is filed and before the issue opens for subscription.
âCompanies are able to get a pricing benchmark for their issues through a pre-IPO placements and also potentially get some marquee investors on board. Investors are assured of a certain allocation at a certain price, which may or may not be the case if they invest through the anchor or qualified institutional buyer book,â said Pranav Haldea, Managing Director, PRIME Database Group.
According to Haldea, pre-IPO placements could be particularly useful for smaller IPOs as getting marquee investors can add credibility to the issuance. Mid and small-cap companies dominated the IPO scene last year. The average deal size reduced significantly to â¹815 crore in FY24 compared to â¹1,409 crore and â¹2,105 crore in the previous two years.
The decision to do a pre-IPO is taken by the company in consultation with the investment bankers. Such placements are particularly targeted at wealthy investors and family offices.
IPO allotment
From April 1, 2022 the market regulator changed its rules for IPO allotment for wealthy investors. One-third of the shares under the NII category are allotted to HNIs with an application size of â¹2-10 lakh. The remaining is for applications of over â¹10 lakh.
âHNI allotments are now done through draw of lots. Earlier, if you put in a bid of â¹100 crore and the issue was subscribed 100 times you got an allocation of â¹1 crore.
New rules
Under the new rules, there is no guarantee that an HNI will get a higher allotment just by putting in higher bids for well-subscribed issuances. This is one reason why wealthy investors now prefer investing through pre-IPO funds,â said Munish Aggarwal, Managing Director and Head – Equity Capital Markets, Equirus.
Pre-IPO investors must compulsorily hold the shares for six months from the time of the IPO. Anchor investors are subject to a lock in of 30 days post which can sell half their holdings and the rest after 90 days.
Pre-IPO shares can be allotted at any price while anchor allotment happens within the IPO price band.
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