ASK Automotive Limited Announced its Initial Public Offer (IPO) to open on November 07, 2023, Sets Price Band fixed at ₹ 268 to ₹ 282 per Equity Share of face value of ₹ 2 each

Mumbai, 02nd November 2023 (GNI): L-R Mr. Ashwani Khare (Executive Director, ICICI Securities Limited), Mr. Devan Kampani (Deputy CEO, JM Financial Limited), Mr. Aman Rathee (Whole-Time Director, ASK Automotive Limited), Mr. Kuldip Singh Rathee (Chairman and Managing Director, ASK Automotive Limited), Mr. Prashant Rathee (Whole-Time Director, ASK Automotive Limited), Mr. Naresh Kumar (Chief Financial Officer, ASK Automotive Limited), Mr. Ashish Nigam (Executive Director – Investment Banking, Axis Capital Limited) and Mr. Pinkesh Soni (Senior Vice President, IIFL Securities Limited) at the IPO press conference of CMD, ASK Automotive Ltd. in Mumbai – Photo by Sumant Gajinkar GNI

ASK Automotive Limited: Initial Public Offer to open on November 07, 2023

·         Price Band fixed at ₹ 268 to ₹ 282 per Equity Share of face value of ₹ 2 each (“Equity Share”);

·         Bid /Offer will open on Tuesday, November 07, 2023 and close on Thursday, November 09, 2023. The Anchor Investor Bidding Data Shall be Monday, November 06, 2023

·          Bids can be made for a minimum of 53 Equity Shares and in multiples of 53 Equity Shares thereafter

National, November 02, 2023 (GNI): ASK Automotive Limited (“ASK” or the “Company”), shall open its Bid / Offer in relation to its initial public offer of Equity Shares on Tuesday, November 07, 2023.

Mumbai, 02nd November 2033 (GNI): L to R: Mr. Aman Rathee (Wholetime Director, ASK Automotive Ltd.), Mr. Kuldip Singh Rathee (CMD, ASK Automotive Ltd.) and Mr. Prashant Rathee (Wholetime Director, ASK Automotive Ltd.) at the IPO press conference of CMD, ASK Automotive Ltd. in Mumbai – photo by Sumant Gajinkar GNI

The Anchor Investor Bidding Date shall be Monday, November 06, 2023.  The Bid/Offer will open on Tuesday, November 07, 2023 for subscription and will close on Thursday, November 09, 2023.

The Price Band of the Offer has been fixed at₹ 268 to ₹ 282 Per Equity Share. Bids can be made for a minimum of 53 Equity Shares and in multiples of 53 Equity Shares thereafter.

The total offer size of up to 29,571,390 Equity Shares of face value ₹ 2 each comprises of up to 20,699,973 equity shares by Kuldip Singh Rathee and up to 8,871,417 equity shares by Vijay Rathee (“promoter selling shareholders”) (the “offer for sale” or the “offer”).

This Equity Shares are being offered through the red herring prospectus of the Company dated October 30, 2023 filed with Registrar of Companies, Delhi and Haryana at New Delhi (the “RHP”) and are proposed to be listed on the BSE Limited (“BSE”) and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (“NSE”).

The Offer is being made in terms of Rule 19(2)(b) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, as amended (the “SCRR”), read with Regulation 31 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018, as amended (“SEBI ICDR Regulations”). The Offer is being made through the Book Building Process in accordance with Regulation 6(1) of the SEBI ICDR Regulations wherein not more than 50% of the Offer shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Qualified Institutional Buyers (“QIBs”) (the “QIB Portion”), provided that our Company and the Promoter Selling Shareholders, in consultation with the BRLMs, may allocate up to 60% of the QIB Portion to Anchor Investors and the basis of such allocation will be on a discretionary basis by our Company and the Promoter Selling Shareholders, in consultation with the BRLMs, in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations (the “Anchor Investor Portion”), of which one-third shall be reserved for domestic Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received from the domestic Mutual Funds at or above the price at which allocation is made to Anchor Investors (“Anchor Investor Allocation Price”).

Further, 5% of the Net QIB Portion shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis only to Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price, and the remainder of the Net QIB Portion shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to all QIBs (other than Anchor Investors), including Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price.

Further, not less than 15% of the Offer shall be available for allocation to Non-Institutional Investors (“Non-Institutional Category”) of which one-third of the Non-Institutional Category shall be available for allocation to Bidders with an application size of more than ₹ 200,000 and up to ₹ 1,000,000 and two-thirds of the Non-Institutional Category shall be available for allocation to Bidders with an application size of more than ₹ 1,000,000 and under-subscription in either of these two subcategories of Non-Institutional Category may be allocated to Bidders in the other sub-category of Non-Institutional Category in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price.

Further, not less than 35% of the Offer shall be available for allocation to Retail Individual Investors (“Retail Category”), in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations, subject to valid Bids being received from them at or above the Offer Price.

All Bidders (except Anchor Investors) shall mandatorily participate in this Offer only through the Application Supported by Blocked Amount (“ASBA”) process and shall provide details of their respective bank account (including UPI ID in case of UPI Bidders) in which the Bid Amount will be blocked by the Self Certified Syndicate Banks (“SCSBs”) or the Sponsor Banks, as the case may be. Anchor Investors are not permitted to participate in the Anchor Investor Portion through the ASBA process. For details, see “Offer Procedure” beginning on page 450 of the RHP.

JM Financial Limited, Axis Capital Limited, ICICI Securities Limited and IIFL Securities Limited are the Book Running Lead Managers to the offer.

All capitalised terms used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning as ascribed to them in the RHP.

The RHP shall be available on the website of the Company at www.askbrake.com/inspection-material-document1, the website of the SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in, websites of the book running lead managers JM Financial Limited at www.jmfl.com, Axis Capital Limited at www.axiscapital.co.in, ICICI Securities Limited at www.icicisecurities.com, IIFL Securities Limited at www.iiflcap.com and websites of the Stock Exchanges i.e. BSE and NSE at www.bseindia.com and www.nseindia.com, respectively, ends GNI SG