Market experts said disruptions caused by the pandemic - to businesses as well as the filing process - and the sharp decline in valuations were the reasons behind fewer new companies wanting to tap the capital markets.
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The company plans to raise Rs 5,000 crore by selling its shares to public.
The regulator is also expected to update its board about two high-profile corporate cases -- one involving refund of investors' money by Sahara group and the other about Reliance Industries' appeal against its decision on settlement of cases through consent mechanism.
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BSE, which recently concluded its Rs 1,243-crore initial public offering, will list on rival National Stock Exchange on Friday.
Barbeque Nation IPO: The promoters hold 60.24 per cent stake, CX Partners owns 33.79 per cent and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's investment firm Alchemy Capital holds 2.05 per cent in the company.
Allotment could be low, and expected listing-day gains can quickly morph into losses if sentiment takes a turn for the worse
Earlier, the regulator only mandated disclosures and issued observations. It was on an investor to read the disclosures carefully and take an informed decision.
A chunk of divestment till now has come from follow-on offerings in the Centre's two ETFs, Bharat-22 and CPSE. Now, there will be initial public offerings of Mazagon Docks, rail companies RVNL and IRFC and MSTC.
The panel would be chaired by T V Mohandas Pai, formerly a senior executive at IT giant Infosys and currently Chairman of Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd, Sebi has said.
It is also considering to mop-up Rs 50 crore through a pre-IPO placement.
Investors including units of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have agreed to buy 28.3 million shares of Bharti Infratel at Rs 230 apiece.
Seeking to raise $5 billion, social networking giant Facebook has filed for its long awaited initial public offering.
Billionaire money manager George Soros reported a nearly 2 percent stake in Manchester United Plc on Monday, in one of the first revelations of investors in the British soccer club's controversial initial public offering earlier this month.
Vanishing companies are those firms, which cease to file their statements of return or where, after raising capital, whereabouts of their registered office or directors are not known.
InterGlobe's IPO is India's biggest since the listing of around $750 million by Bharti Infratel Ltd in December 2012.
The NSE held 25 to 100 per cent stakes in these entities through its subsidiary NSE Investments as of September.
'We have filed our draft red herring prospectus for a floating IPO for a net offer size of 86.6 million shares.'
Since 11 months, Sebi has not been able to make these companies deposit the required money in an escrow account.
Goenka is hoping Spencer's will break even by the second quarter of 2013-14.
Given the sharp rally in stock prices since September, coupled with robust foreign inflows, share-sale activity by companies is likely to gather pace in the next few weeks.
A total of 10 companies collectively managed to garner Rs 6,059 crore (Rs 60.59 billion) through their IPOs during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, shows an analysis of data available with the stock exchanges.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government has no business to be in business and his administration is committed to privatising all PSUs barring the bare minimum in four strategic sectors. "It is government's duty to support enterprises and businesses. But it is not essential that it should own and run enterprises," he said. Modi also said the Centre's policy is to either monetise or modernise public sector enterprises, with the intent that the government has "no business to be in business".
A lot of work is needed to be done on the part of the insurance sector behemoth, and the government, before it is ready for its market debut.
Pawan Hans, Dredging Corp on list to meet target of Rs 800 bn for 2018-19
On the day of Facebook's market debut, trading glitches by the Nasdaq postponed the start of trading in the company by 30 minutes.
Garners a little over 300,000 retail applications Bharti IPO subscribed 15 per cent on Day One.
Ashishkumar Chauhan says that the exchange is seeking a valuation of about $1 billion.
Bharti Infratel plans to raise Rs 4,500 cr through its IPO.
Currently, Sebi regulations require the bidding period to be completed in a minimum of three working days and a maximum of 10, including the extension given pursuant to a revision in price band by the issuer.
When the initial public offer of Jindal Power was announced in 2009, it was seen by investors as a golden opportunity to own a quality stock.
Company needs to fulfil them even if they were made inadvertently.
In its guidelines for submission of initial public offer applications through a nationwide network of brokers, physically or electronically, market regulator Sebi has made provisions for payment of a commission to such brokers by the IPO-bound companies.
The move signals a strong demand from investors.
The Department of Disinvestment has sought comments on a draft note proposing share sales to public.
The IPO is an offer for sale of 38 million shares by SBI, BOB, LIC, PNB and T Rowe Price. Barring T Rowe and PNB, the others are selling stake to comply with Sebi norms.
Recently listed companies scored 54, compared to 58 for the BSE100 firms and 61 for entities in the Sensex pack. The report noted that issues remain in IPO companies in which there seems to be a need to institutionalise governance practices.
The IPO will be sometime in the first half of next year.
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