The initial public offering of Afcons Infrastructure, the flagship infrastructure, engineering, and construction company of the Shapoorji Pallonji group, will hit the capital market today for public subscription. The ₹5,430-crore IPO consists of a mix of fresh issues of up to ₹1,250 crore and an offer of sale of up to ₹4,180 crore by the Promoter. The price band has been determined at ₹440 – ₹463 a share.

Investors can bid for a minimum of 32 equity shares and in multiples of 32 equity shares thereafter. 

The offer is being made through the book-building process, wherein not more than 50 per cent of the net offer will be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to qualified institutional buyers, not less than 15 per cent for non-institutional bidders, and not less than 35 per cent for allocation to retail individual bidders. It has a reserved portion for employees. A discount of ₹44 per equity share is offered to eligible employees bidding in the employee reservation portion.

Afcons Infrastructure has raised Rs 1621 crore from anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering that opens for public subscription today. The company said it allocated 35,021,597 equity shares at Rs 463 per share on Thursday to anchor investors. 

Foreign and domestic institutions who participated in the anchor were GIC, HDFC MF, ICICI Pru AMC, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Group, Nomura AM, Nippon MF, Fullerton, Enam Holdings, Birla MF, Mirae MF, Quant MF, Invesco MF, Eastbridge, Amundi, Invesco HK, Loomis & Sayles, HDFC Life, 360 One AIF, Manulife, Mirae Global, WhiteOak (MF), WhiteOak, BNP Baroda MF, LIC MF, BCI, Jupiter AM, NS Partners, ICICI Pru Life, Abakkus, Oaktree, Think Investment, Helios MF, Mahindra, Trust MF, Edelweiss Life, Carnelian, Allspring, Birla Offshore, MK Ventures, Jain Global, Jane Street, PIMCO, SBI General Insurance, Nuvama Crossover fund, GAM Investment UK, Neuberger, Taurus MF, ITI MF, Nippon Life, Verition, Zeta Global Funds (OEIC) PCC - Zeta Series B Fund PC.

Out of the total allocation, 11,710,136 equity shares were allocated to 15 domestic mutual funds through a total of 31 schemes amounting to Rs 542.2 crore contributing 33.44 per cent of the total anchor book size.

The proceeds from its fresh issuance will be used to the extent of Rs 80 crore for capital expenditure towards the purchase of construction equipment, Rs 320 crore for funding long-term working capital requirements, Rs 600 crore for prepayment or scheduled repayment of a portion of certain outstanding borrowings and acceptances availed by the company, and general corporate purposes.

Afcons operates across five major infrastructure business verticals: Marine and Industrial, encompassing projects such as ports, harbours, dry docks, LNG tanks, and material handling systems; Surface transport, including highways, interchanges, mining infrastructure, and railways; Urban infrastructure, covering metro works, bridges, flyovers, and elevated corridors.; Hydro and Underground, comprising dams, tunnels, and water-related projects; and Oil and Gas, involving offshore and onshore projects in the oil and gas sector.

ICICI Securities Limited, DAM Capital Advisors Limited, Jefferies India Private Limited, Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India) Private Limited, Nuvama Wealth Management Limited, and SBI Capital Markets Limited are book running lead managers, and Link Intime India Private Limited is the registrar of the issue.

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