14/09/2017
SBI Life Insurance, a subsidiary of the country's largest lender SBI, will hit the capital market on 20 September to raise up to Rs 8,400 crore. The initial share sale offer will open on 20 September and will remain open until 22 September, State Bank of India said in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges. This would be the second listing of a life insurer after ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, which went public last year. SBI Life IPO is the largest public offer in last seven years.
IPO details
The price band for the public offer has been fixed between Rs 685 to Rs 700 per share of face value Rs 10 each, company said in an exchange filing. At the upper end of the price band, the company will raise Rs 8,400 crore. Investors can bid for the IPO with a minimum of 21 shares. SBI Life’s public issue involves its promoters offloading up to 12 crore shares of face value of Rs 10 each through the offer of sale route. will dilute up to 8 crore shares while BNP Paribas Cardif SA will offload up to 4 crore. The book running lead managers to the offer are JM Financial Institutional Securities, Axis Capital, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets India, Deutsche Equities India, ICICI Securities, Kotak Capital Company and SBI Capital Markets.