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Glencore May Get $61 Billion Value in London, Hong Kong IPO
04.05.2011 14:54 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Glencore International AG, the commodities trader planning the year’s biggest initial public offering, said the share sale in London and Hong Kong this month may value the company at about $61 billion.
Glencore plans to sell shares at 480 pence ($7.90) to 580 pence each, the Baar, Switzerland-based company said today in a statement. The mid-point of the range indicates a market value of $61 billion upon listing, with final pricing due about May 19. Glencore expects the shares to trade in London on May 24.
The company, ending more than three decades of operating as a closely held partnership, may raise about $10 billion in the sale, making it the largest IPO since General Motors Co. sold stock in November. So-called cornerstone investors agreed to buy about 31 percent of the shares on offer, Glencore said.
The sale has «one of the largest cornerstone investor participations ever achieved for an IPO,» Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenberg said in the statement.
The price mid-point values Glencore at about $52.5 billion before it receives the IPO proceeds, based on 6 billion shares outstanding before the sale. Four analyst reports last month from banks advising on the offering gave an average valuation range of $52.3 billion to $68.7 billion.
‘Good Deal’
«We might be towards the lower end of the range,» John Meyer, an analyst at Fairfax IS in London, said in an interview with Mark Barton on Bloomberg Television’s «Countdown.» «A lot of these cornerstone funds have been promised a good deal here and if you price at the top of the range you risk maybe messing that up and breaking that promise.»
As much as 13.9 percent of the company will be publicly tradable after the IPO, according to a sale document sent to potential investors and obtained by Bloomberg News.
The IPO was announced April 14, the same week that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. advised a retreat from commodities, saying the risks of investing outweighed potential gains. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Total Return Index of 24 commodities has beaten bonds, stocks and the dollar every month since December, the longest run in at least 14 years.
Glencore’s first-quarter trading performance «continued to benefit from improved market conditions, as also experienced in the final months of 2010,» the company said today.
Expansion, Acquisitions
Glencore, which trades commodities including coal, oil and metals, plans to sell about $7.9 billion of new stock while existing holders may sell an additional $2.1 billion in shares for tax purposes and to repay loans. The company said last month it will use the funds for expansion and acquisitions.
The IPO includes an overallotment option, known as the greenshoe, of 10 percent of the offer. Cornerstone investors are subject to a lock-up period of six months, Glencore said.
General Motors sold $15.8 billion of common shares and an overallotment raising $18.1 billion. Glencore is likely to be included in the FTSE-100 Index on the first day of trading in London, it said last month.
Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG and Morgan Stanley are managing the IPO as global coordinators, along with Bank of America Corp. and BNP Paribas as joint bookrunners. Barclays Plc, Societe Generale SA and UBS AG were appointed co- bookrunners.
Glencore employs 2,000 people at trading units across 40 countries and more than 50,000 people at its industrial operations, its website shows. The name, short for «global energy commodity resources,» was changed from Marc Rich & Co. after management bought out former fugitive U.S. financier Marc Rich in 1994.
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