Adani FPO: What saved the issue on the last day of bidding?
Live MintJust about a week ago, the Street was awaiting India's largest follow-on-public offer which was about to be floated by one of the India's biggest conglomerates. Investors - retail and institutional - were waiting for the issue to open to buy shares of Adani Enterprises at a bit of a discount from the market price. On January 25, the company raised ₹5,984.9 crore for the anchor investor portion from 33 foreign and domestic institutional investors including the likes of Singapore based Maybank Securities Pte Ltd, insurance behemoth LIC, SBI Employees Pension Fund, SBI Life Insurance Co, HDFC Life Insurance Co, Abu-Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund ADIA, Goldman Sachs Investment and Morgan Stanley Asia. Read all Adani-related stories here At the end of the third and final day of bidding, the retail investors were missing as they could easily buy the company's shares at much cheaper rate. The demand on first two days of bidding for the FPO was nearly nil, but the turning point for the FPO was Abu Dhabi's International Holding Company on Monday announced that will invest $400 million in Adani Enterprises' ₹20,000-crore follow-on public offer via its subsidiary Green Transmission Investment Holding RSC.