Power Grid India, a government-owned electric power transmission company, has fired through the capital markets with a US$1.7 billion further public offering.
The offering consisted of 840 million shares of which half were offered by the company and the rest by the Indian government at ₹90 (US$2) per share. The transaction consisted of a public offering in India and a placement to qualified institutional buyers in the US under Rule 144A and outside the US under Regulation S. The offering closed on 24 November.
O’Melveny & Myers served as international counsel to the underwriters: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan India, and SBI Capital Markets. The O’Melveny team was led by members of the firm’s capital markets practice in Singapore. The team included counsel Andrew Hutton and Pooja Sinha, partner David Makarechian and associate Anirudh Rastogi. O’Melveny advised the Indian government on NTPC’s billion dollar offering earlier in 2010.
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