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RBL Bank set to file for IPO within a week

Hat Tip: Shivam Bose

(Disclosure:I am market making in the shares of RBL Bank)

RBL Bank Ltd, a privately held lender backed by a clutch of private equity funds, is set to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the markets regulator within a week, said three people familiar with the development.

“The bank is looking to raise Rs.1,450 through its initial public offering (IPO), of which Rs.1,100 crore will be raised to increase the capital adequacy ratio of the bank and the rest to give exit to a few private equity funds,” said the first investment banker mentioned above.

The bank has hired around nine investment banks to run the process. The IPO would help the bank comply with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines issued last year that directed all banks to list within three years of starting business.

Over the last three years, global and local private equity and development funds have invested over Rs.1,400 crore in the bank in three tranches. Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd (HDFC), Norwest Venture Partners, Samara Capital, Beacon Capital, Faering Capital, TVS Shriram, Cartica Capital, Ascent Capital, Aditya Birla Private Equity, IDFC’s Spice Fund and ICICI’s Emerging India Fund are among its shareholders.

The share sale will make RBL the 41st publicly traded bank in India.-from Mint

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