[Ministry of Railways-owned RailTel will launch its IPO on February 16 this year. The share sale, which will end on February 18, will be priced at Rs 93 to Rs 94 per equity share. The minimum market lot size for the IPO is 155 shares, where an individual investor can apply for up to 13 lots (2015 shares or Rs 189,410).

RailTel Corporation of India’s Rs 819.24 crore initial public offer is a complete offer for sale of 8,71,53,369 equity shares by the government.

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A Mini Ratna (Category-I) Central Public Sector Enterprise, RailTel was wholly-owned by the Government of India & under the administrative control of the Railways. As per reports, the IPO was oversubscribed by 42 times and the equity shares were listed on the stock exchanges on February 26, 2021.

J Sagar Associates advised ICICI Securities, IDBI Capital Markets & Securities and SBI Capital Markets led by a team of partner Lead principal associate Arka Mookerjee Pracheta Bhattacharya, associates Krupa Brahmbhatt, Ananth Balaji, Kinjal Shah and Sourav Modi.

Crawford Bayley advised RailTel and the selling shareholder as to Indian law.

US law firm Squire Patton Boggs Singapore LLP acted as the international legal counsel to RailTel.

2021-03-11

Deal value: INR 8,192.42 million (USD 110 million approx)

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