Indian Digital Payments Firm Seeks Valuation Of $20B -$22B

  • Digital payments and financial firm Paytm are readying up for a pre-Diwali initial public offering (IPO) launch, CNBC reports
  • Investors including ANT, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABASoftBank Group Corp SFTBY SFTBF,  Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B), Elevation Capital, and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma will sell shares through the offer for sale (OFS). The DRHP also mentions RNT Associates of Ratan Tata as a selling shareholder.
  • Paytm filed its share sale prospectus in July for a ₹16,600 crore IPO, with a sale of fresh stock and offer for sale (OFS) by shareholders, each worth ₹8,300 crores, Moneycontrol reports.
  • Paytm seeks to raise $2.2 billion, receiving demand from sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and foreign institutional investors (FIIs), valuing it about $20 billion - $22 billion.
  • An SWF has offered to buy over $500 million of shares in the IPO.
  • Paytm is aiming for a pre-Diwali IPO launch. It is awaiting approval from market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), likely this week.
  • Price Action: BABA shares traded lower by 1.62% at $141.87 in the premarket session on the last check Monday.
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