Investcom LLC
06 October 2005
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INVESTCOM FINALISES IPO
Final Price of $12.35 per Global Depositary Share
Offer size of $741 million
London, 6 October 2005 - Investcom, the international mobile telecommunications
operator, today announced the final details of its IPO.
• The offering was priced at US$12.35 per Global Depositary Shares
(GDSs) with each GDS representing 5 ordinary shares of Investcom.
• The Company and selling shareholders are offering 59,995,428 GDSs to
be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Dubai International
Financial Exchange (DIFX)
• The offering represents 22.6% of Investcom's outstanding share capital
at IPO
• The underwriters have also been granted an over-allotment option of 5%
of the offer
• Conditional trading of GDSs commences on the London Stock Exchange
today, 6 October, 2005, subject to admission becoming effective on or about
October 11, 2005
• Citigroup acted as Global Co-ordinator and Joint Bookrunner on this
IPO. HSBC was Joint Bookrunner
Based on the offer price, Investcom's market capitalisation is approximately
US$3.3 billion.
Azmi Mikati, Chief Executive of Investcom, today said, 'We are delighted to have
completed this IPO so successfully. We look forward to continuing to implement
our strategy and develop our business as a publicly listed company.'
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About Investcom
Investcom (www.investcomholding.com) is an international provider of mobile
telecommunications services with operations in eight countries in the Middle
East, Africa and Europe. As of June 2005, Investcom had a total of approximately
3.3 million managed customers. The company operates GSM networks, mostly under
the AreebaTM brand, in Syria, Ghana, Yemen, Benin, Liberia, Cyprus,
Guinea-Bissau and Sudan. Investcom has also recently been awarded GSM licenses
to build and operate mobile networks in Afghanistan and Guinea, expanding its
operations to ten countries and boosting its combined population under license
to approx. 147 million.
The company also provides international carrier services, principally through
its operations in Monaco, fixed telephony services in the United Kingdom and
telecommunications engineering and consulting services.
For more information please contact:
Capital MS&L for the Company
Neil Doyle on +44 20 7307 5335 or +44 777 1978 220 or on
[email protected]
Claire Maloney on +44 20 7307 5341 or +44 777 0958 479 or on
[email protected]
Citigroup
Jeremy Hughes on +44 20 7986 5607 or +44 7747 603 117 or on
[email protected]
HSBC
Malcolm Wallis on +44 20 7991 3876 or +44 7774 556 416 or on
[email protected]
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