Poland
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Equity capital markets bankers are heralding the success of emerging markets IPOs set to be priced in the coming days and weeks, including the flotations of Russia’s Sovcomflot, Lithuania’s Ignitis, Saudi Arabia’s BinDawood and Kazakhstan’s Kaspi. -
Polish e-commerce firm Allegro has priced its historic IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the largest in its history, to become the most valuable listed Polish company. However, high demand for stock has meant that a substantial slice of investors in the IPO got no shares at all in allocations.
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Allegro, the Polish e-commerce company, will grow the size of its Warsaw IPO to meet investor demand for the deal.
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Allegro, the Polish e-commerce company, covered its Warsaw IPO throughout its range on the first day of bookbuilding on Tuesday as investors rushed into the book. It will be one of the largest IPOs of the year at about $2bn.
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Ignitis Grupe, the state-owned Lithuanian energy and utility company, has opened books on its IPO on the Nasdaq Vilinus and London Stock Exchange. The company’s listing will benefit from a framework agreement signed with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, under which it will participate in the IPO.
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This week’s £1.88bn ($2.43bn) IPO of The Hut Group (THG) in London is leading to hopes that European technology firms will follow in listing on their home markets rather than in the US.
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Allegro, the Polish e-commerce company, launched its long-awaited Warsaw IPO on Monday. The transaction could be one of the largest of the year, according to sources close to the deal.
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The Republic of Poland, the first European country to issue a Panda bond in August 2016, has finished the documentation process for its second onshore renminbi offering, GlobalCapital China understands.
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Domestic lenders across central and eastern Europe, often government owned, have stepped up during the coronavirus pandemic to provide substantially more funding than ever before. But international bankers still see plenty of syndicated lending opportunities in the region.
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Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer PKN Orlen has raised a revolving credit facility. The Polish corporate is in the process of acquiring two fellow Polish energy corporates, as bankers predicted an uptick in M&A activity.
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Investors are growing increasingly excited about the IPO of Allegro, the Polish e-commerce platform, and the sources working on the deal are hoping to use this momentum to launch the deal early in the autumn.
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