Plan IPO through offer for sale route
ICICI Bank and Fairfax Financial Holdings --two principal shareholders in ICICI Lombard General Insurance -- have decided to partially divest their shareholding in the general insurer, taking it public through the offer for sale (OFS) route.
The Board of ICICI Lombard General Insurance ( ICICI Lombard) on Monday approved the 'offer for sale', subject to market conditions and regulatory approvals.
The size and other details of the offer would be determined in due course, a release from ICICI Lombard General Insurance said.
Fairfax Financial Holdings will do the dilution through its affiliate FAL Corporation.
As of end May, ICICI Bank had 63.31 per cent stake and Fairfax had 22.13 per cent stake in ICICI Lombard General Insurance.
It may be recalled that Canada-based investment firm Fairfax Financial Holdings had recently offloaded 12.18 per cent stake in ICICI Lombard General Insurance to a clutch of investors including Warburg Pincus, Tamarind Capital Pte and IIFL Special Opportunities Fund, for Rs 2,473 crore.