IPOs in India buck global trend with marginal decline in returns

Global initial public offerings have witnessed a significant slowdown in January, but the average returns on investments from India’s primary market issues, which accounted for 50% of the total primary market gatherings, have fallen marginally.

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2007: A year of big deals

It has been a year of frenzied deal-making. From mega public floats such as the DLF Ltd’s domestic initial public offer (IPO) and and ICICI Bank Ltd’s mega overseas offering, Indian companies raised resources to fund its breakneck pace of growth in 2007. Huge amounts were raised both from the domestic and international bond and equity markets. New avenues such as the qualified institutional placement (QIP) route gained in importance, while convertible offerings were also a hit. The amounts raised in 2007 have been higher than in the preceding years except for domestic bonds, while the number of deals done have also been higher, except for overseas equity offers and domestic bonds. Foreign investment banking firms topped the league tables in five out of six categories, including managing domestic bond issues and QIPs.

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India Inc sells record shares in '07

Indian Companies sold shares worth a record 451.37 billion rupees in 2007 through public issues, with real estate Companies dominating the initial public offer (IPOs) route, a primary market monitoring firm said on Wednesday. The amount raised in 2007 was 83 per cent higher than last year's mobilisation of 246.79 billion rupees, Prime Database said in a statement.

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