Glenmark Life Sciences Limited Initial Public Offer to open on July 27, 2021

 Price Band fixed at ₹695 to ₹720 per equity share of Glenmark Life Sciences Limited

Offer to remain open from Tuesday, July 27, 2021 to Thursday, July 29, 2021

 

Wednesday, July 21, 2021: Glenmark Life Sciences Limited (‘GLS’ or the ‘Company’), a leading developer and manufacturer of select high value, non-commoditized active pharmaceutical ingredients (“APIs”) in chronic therapeutic areas, plans to open its Initial Public Offering (“Offer”) on July 27, 2021.

 

The Price Band of the Offer has been fixed at ₹695 to ₹720 per Equity Share. Bids can be made for a minimum of 20 Equity Shares and in multiples of 20 Equity Shares thereafter.

 

The Offer consists of equity shares of face value of ₹2 each of Glenmark Life Sciences Limited (“Equity Shares”) comprising a fresh issue of Equity Shares aggregating to ₹10,600 million (the “Fresh Issue”) and an offer for sale of up to 6,300,000 Equity Shares by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited (“Promoter” or “Promoter Selling Shareholder”).

 

This Offer is being made through a Book Building Process and in terms of Rule 19(2)(b) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, as amended (“SCRR”) read with Regulation 31 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018, as amended (the “SEBI ICDR Regulations”) and in accordance with Regulation 6(1) of the SEBI ICDR Regulations wherein not more than 50% of the Offer shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Qualified Institutional Buyers (“QIBs”, and such portion, the “QIB Portion”). The Company and the Promoter Selling Shareholder may, in consultation with the Lead Managers, allocate up to 60% of the QIB Portion to Anchor Investors on a discretionary basis in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations (“Anchor Investor Portion”), out of which one-third shall be available for allocation to domestic Mutual Funds only, subject to valid Bids being received from the domestic Mutual Funds at or above the Anchor Investor Allocation Price. Further, 5% of the QIB Portion (excluding the Anchor Investor Portion) shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Mutual Funds only, and the remainder of the QIB Portion shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to all QIB Bidders including Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price. However, if the aggregate demand from Mutual Funds is less than 5% of the QIB Portion, the balance Equity Shares available for allocation in the Mutual Fund Portion will be added to the remaining QIB Portion for proportionate allocation to QIBs.

 

Further, not less than 15% of the Offer shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Non-Institutional Bidders and not less than 35% of the Offer shall be available for allocation to Retail Individual Bidders in accordance with SEBI ICDR Regulations, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price. All potential Bidders, other than Anchor Investors, are required to mandatorily utilise the Application Supported by Blocked Amount (“ASBA”) process by providing details of their respective bank account (including UPI ID (defined hereinafter) in case of Retail Individual Bidder(s) in which the corresponding Bid Amounts will be blocked by the SCSBs or under the UPI mechanism, as applicable, to participate in the Offer. Anchor Investors are not permitted to participate in the Offer through the ASBA process.

 

The Company proposes to utilise the Net Proceeds from the Fresh Issue towards (i) Payment of outstanding purchase consideration to the Promoter for the spin-off of the API business from the Promoter into the Company pursuant to the Business Purchase Agreement dated October 9, 2018; (ii) Funding the capital expenditure requirements; and (iii) General corporate purposes.

 

Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, BofA Securities India Limited and Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Limited are the Global Co-ordinators and Book Running Lead Managers to the Offer. DAM Capital Advisors Limited (Formerly known as IDFC Securities Limited), BOB Capital Markets Limited and SBI Capital Markets Limited are the Book Running Lead Managers to the Offer.

 

The Equity Shares to be offered through the Red Herring Prospectus are proposed to be listed on BSE and NSE.