Asian Hydropower Closing 697,200 Units IPO Shares Issue from Today; IPO Oversubscribed by 21.05 Times So Far

Asian Hydropower Limited is closing the issue of 6,97,200 unit shares of Rs 100 face value today i.e. on 3rd Falgun. The issue opened on 27th Magh and was supposed to close on 2nd Falgun but since the government of Nepal decided to announce Falgun 1 as People's War Day, a public holiday, the issue was extended till today.

Out of the total 840,000 units; 10% i.e. 84,000 units have already been issued and allotted to Nepalese citizens working abroad, whereas 2% i.e 16,800 units have been set aside for the employees of the company and 5% of the total offered shares i.e. 42,000 units have been set aside for the mutual funds. The remaining 6,97,200 units are for the general public. The paid-up capital of the company will reach Rs. 34 Crores after the IPO issuance. The company intends to collect Rs 6.97 crore from this IPO.

Earlier, the company had issued 3,40,000 unit shares worth Rs. 3.4 crores to the project-affected locals and 84,000 units shares to Nepalese citizens working abroad. Overall, 65.29% of shares are of the promoter shareholders in the company.

NMB Capital Limited is appointed as the issue manager for the IPO issuance. Applications can be placed for a minimum of 10 units and a maximum of 20,000 units.

According to CDSC, 13,18,798 applicants have applied for a total of 14,681,020 units. Thus, the issue is already oversubscribed by 21.05 times so far.

CARE Ratings Nepal Limited (CRNL) has reaffirmed the issuer rating of ‘CARE-NP BB (Is)’ assigned to Asian Hydropower Limited. Issuers with this rating are considered to have a moderate risk of default regarding the timely servicing of financial obligations in Nepal.

Asian Hydropower Ltd. was incorporated as a private limited company on May 05, 2016, and later on, July 10, 2019, converted into a public limited company. It is promoted by individual promoters from different backgrounds and institutional investors for setting up a 6.2 MW run-of-river, Lower Jogmai Hydropower Project (LJHP) in the “BOOT” (Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer) model and is located at Illam district of Nepal. The project started commercial operations on November 01, 2021. The power project utilizes available heads and flows from Jogmai Khola (river). The project has a 132.2 km2 catchment area and 5.70m3/s design discharge at 40% exceedance flow.

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