Adani’s $2.5 billion share offering faces critical final day
Tuesday marks a critical day for Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani as his flagship firm closes books on a Rs 200-billion ($2.5 billion) share sale amidst the turmoil triggered by short-seller Hindenburg Research.
Shares of Adani Enterprises Ltd. have plunged about 7% below the floor price set for the follow-on equity sale owing to a broad three-day selloff that’s erased more than $68 billion of market value from Adani Group companies. Overall subscription for the offer, India’s largest follow-on equity sale, stood at just 3% as of end Monday.
That’s caused some analysts following the share sale to be skeptical about whether there will be enough demand under the current terms. Adani though will be hoping that the funding from Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Co.
