The firm will join rivals Avantha Power, Ind-Barath, Sterlite Energy and Jindal Power to mop up about $3.5 billion in 2011 from the Indian primary market where energy and power firms raised $608 million in 2010 through primary share offers, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
“The IPO is likely to be in the range of Rs1,200-1,500 crores,” Rajesh Tulsiani, chief financial officer, said over the telephone on Thursday.
The shares would list in the next financial year and the timing would depend on market conditions, Tulsiani said.
The firm with an operational capacity of 61megawatt also aims to raise about Rs500 crore through a pre-IPO placement to private equity players, he added.
“After the filing of DRHP we will be speaking to PE players,” Tulsiani said.
Enam Securities, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, IDFC Capital, UBS, Axis Bank and SBI Capital Markets will be managers to the issue.
Aiming high
Indian power producers, backed by the government’s ambitious target of adding 62,000 MW of capacity by 2012, are aggressively setting up power projects across the country to serve an electricity-starved country.
Abhijeet Power, which is setting up 1,740 MW thermal power projects in Jharkhand, 2,640 MW projects in Bihar and a 271 MW project at Nagpur, will use IPO proceeds to partly fund the projects, he added.
It plans to invest around Rs15,000 crore through a combination of equity and debt to achieve total capacity of 4,651 MW in the next four-year, while it had already tied up nearly Rs10,500 crore debt for some of its projects, Tulsiani said.
The firm prefers a combination of captive coal mines as well as coal allocation from state-run coal firms to fuel its projects, he added.
“We are not importing any coal...we only set up the plant when there is a assured supply of coal,” Tulsiani said.
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