Ingwa Hydropower Limited has announced the closure of its IPO issuance of 12,68,639 unit shares with a face value of Rs. 100 per share. The issue, which opened on April 13, 2080, is oversubscribed by 8.64 times, with 994,624 applicants applying for a total of 10,964,750 units. The company intends to collect Rs. 12.68 crore from this IPO, with 70% of the shares belonging to promoter shareholders.
Before this issuance, the company had allotted 306,840 units of its 6,00,000 unit shares worth Rs. 6 crores to project-affected locals in Taplejung District, with the remaining 293,160 units added to the 12,00,000 units reserved for the general public. Out of the total 14,93,160 units available to the general public, 120,000 units have already been allotted to Nepalese citizens working abroad, while 5% and 2% have been set aside for mutual funds and employees of the company, respectively. The remaining 12,68,639 units are for the general public, with a minimum application of 10 units and a maximum of 20,000 units.
The IPO issuance is managed by Sunrise Capital Limited, while CARE Ratings Nepal Limited has assigned an issuer rating of ‘CARE-NP BB (Is)’ to Ingwa Hydropower Limited, indicating a moderate risk of default regarding timely servicing of financial obligations in Nepal. The company was incorporated on June 23, 2009, as a private limited company and was later converted into a public limited company on August 25, 2014. The company’s institutional promoters and individual businessmen in Nepal have promoted it to set up a 9.70 MW run-of-river, Upper Ingwa Khola hydroelectric project under the BOOT mechanism in the Panchthar district of Nepal.