Ahead of IPO, Enviro Infra Engineers mobilises Rs 195 cr from anchor investors

Enviro Infra Engineers, which is involved in the development of turnkey projects of sewage treatment plants and sewerage system, on Thursday collected around Rs 195 crore from anchor investors, a day before its initial share sale opening for public subscription. Quant Mutual Fund, Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund, LIC Mutual Fund, Abakkus Diversified Alpha Fund-2, Singularity Equity Fund I and Meru Investment Fund PCC Cell 1 are among the anchor investors, according to a circular uploaded on BSE’s website.

As per the circular, Enviro Infra Engineers has allotted over 1.31 crore equity shares to 22 funds at Rs 148 apiece, which is also the upper end of the price band. This aggregates the transaction size to Rs 194.68 crore.

The Rs 650-crore initial share sale will open for public subscription on November 22 and conclude on November 26. Shares will be available in the price range of Rs 140 to Rs 148 apiece.

The city-based company’s proposed IPO is a combination of a fresh issue of 3.87 crore equity shares and an offer for sale (OFS) component of 52.68 lakh shares by promoters.

Currently, promoters hold over 93 per cent stake in Enviro Infra Engineers.

At the higher end of the price band, the IPO is valued at Rs 650 crore, placing the company’s market capitalisation at approximately Rs 2,600 crore. Proceeds from the fresh issue to the tune of Rs 181 crore will be used to meet the working capital requirements, Rs 100 crore will be used for payment of debt, Rs 30 crore will be infused into the company’s subsidiary, EIEL Mathura Infra Engineers, to build 60 million litres per day Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Besides, a portion will be used for general corporate purposes. Half of the issue size has been reserved for qualified institutional buyers, 35 per cent for retail investors and the remaining 15 per cent for non-institutional investors.

Enviro Infra Engineers is engaged in designing, construction, operation and maintenance of water and wastewater treatment plants and water supply scheme projects for government authorities/bodies. The treatment process installed by the company at most of the STPs is zero liquid discharge-compliant and the treated water can be used for horticulture, washing, refrigeration and other process industries.

Hem Securities is the sole book-running lead manager of the public issue.

The equity shares of the company are expected to be listed on the BSE and NSE on November 29.

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