ICICI Lombard IPO gets fully subscribed, bidding ends later today

Bidding for the sale closes later on Tuesday

Reuters  |  Mumbai 

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Chanda Kochhar, Chairperson, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, Bhargav Dasgupta, MD & CEO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Kaku Nakhate, DSP Merrill Lynch during the IPO press conference in Mumbai (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)

Indian insurer ICICI Lombard's of to raise as much as 57 billion rupees ($888.40 million) was fully subscribed early on the last day of the sale on Tuesday, data showed.

As of 0515 GMT, the sale had received bids 1.03 times the number of on offer, according to data from the and the National

The company's two main shareholders - Ltd and Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd - are selling a combined 86.2 million shares, or a 19 percent stake, in what is the first Indian by a non-life insurer.

for the sale closes later on Tuesday.

Exchange data showed qualified institutional buyers had bid for 2.37 times the on offer for that category, while retail had bid 0.62 times, shareholders bid for 0.58 times and non-institutional bid 0.10 times.

First Published: Tue, September 19 2017. 13:36 IST