The financial services sector is an important constituent of the financial system and plays a significant role in the realm of economic development of a country. Merchant Banking is a prominent component of the financial sector of our country.
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Trang 2• Merchant Banking
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Overview
• The financial services sector is an
important constituent of the financial
system and plays a significant role in the realm of economic development of a
country
• Merchant Banking is a prominent
component of the financial sector of our
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Overview
• In the U.S., investment bankers cater to
the needs of business enterprises carrying out merchant banking functions The main functions of merchant banking are the
following;
1. Corporate counselling
2. Project counselling
3. Pre-investment studies
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Overview
4 Capital restructuring
5 Credit syndication and project finance
6 Issue management and underwriting
7 Portfolio management
8 Working capital finance
9 Acceptance creat and bill discounting
10 Mergers, Amalgamations and takeovers
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Overview
11 Venture capital
12 Lease financing
13 Foreign currency finance
14 Fixed deposit broking
15 Mutual funds
16 Relief to sick industries
17 Project appraisal
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Trang 8Public Issue Management
• Corporate enterprise use several sources for raising funds from the capital market
• Issue of securities constitutes an important mode of raising such finances
• Security issues takes the following forms;
1. Public issue
2. Right issue
Private placement 8
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Public issue of securities:
• When capital funds are raised through the issue of a prospectus, it is called ‘public
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Public issue of securities:
• The prospectus has to disclose all the
essential facts about the company to the prospective purchasers of the shares
• SECP insists on the adequacy of
disclosure of information that should serve
as the basis for investors to make a
decision about the investment of their
money
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Right issue:
• When shares are issued to the existing
shareholding of a company on a privileged basis, it is called as ‘Rights Issue’
• The existing shareholders have a
pre-emptive right to subscribe to the new issue
of shares
• Rights shares are offered as additional
issues by corporates to mop up further
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• In this case, no prospectus is issued, since
it is presumed that the investors have
sufficient knowledge and experience and are capable of evaluating the risks of the investment 12
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Public issue of securities:
• Private placement covers shares,
preference shares and debentures
• The role of financial intermediary, such as merchant bankers and lead managers,
assumes greater significance in private
placement
• They involve themselves in the task of
preparing an offer memorandum and
negotiating with investors 13
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• Issue Manager
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Issue Manager (Requirements)
The Issue manager needs to satisfy the
following requirements before being allowed
by the SECP to carry out various issue
management activities;
1. Adequate and necessary infrastructure
such as adequate office space,
equipments and manpower to effectively discharge activities
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Issue Manager (Requirements)
2 Minimum number of two persons
needed, who are professionally qualified
in Law, Finance or Banking management and have the experience to conduct the business of the merchant banker
3 Fulfilling the capital adequacy
requirements, i.e a minimum net worth of
Rs 5 crores
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Categories of Issue managers
• SECP has classified Issue managers into four categories as follows;
1 Merchant banker who is authorized to act
as issue manager, advisor, consultant,
underwriter and portfolio manager
2 Merchant banker who is authorized to act only as advisor, consultant, underwriter and portfolio manager
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Categories of Issue managers
3 Merchant banker who is authorized to act
as underwriter, advisor to an issue
4 Merchant banker who is authorized to act only as advisor or consultant to an issue
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• Role of Issue manager
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Role of Issue manager
The merchant banker as an issue
manager is helpful is the following ways;
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Activities involved in public issue
management:
• The various activities involved in raising funds from the capital markets are the following;
Pre-issue Activities:
1. Signing of MoU
2. Obtaining appraisal note
3. Optimum capital structure 23
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Activities involved in public issue
management:
4 Convening meeting
5 Appointment of financial intermediary
6 Preparing documents
7 Due diligence certificate
8 Submission of offer document
9 Finalization of collection centres
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Activities involved in public issue
management:
10 Filing with RoC
11 Launching the issue
12 Promoter’s contribution
13 Issue closure
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issues
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Methods of marketing securities:
• Following are the various methods being adopted by corporate entities for
marketing the securities in the New Issues Market;
1. Pure prospectus method
2. Offer for sale method
3. Private placement method
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Methods of marketing securities:
4 Initial public offers (IPOs) method
5 Right issue method
6 Bonus issue method
7 Book-building method
8 Stock option method
9 Bought-out deals method
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Pure prospectus method:
• The method whereby a corporate
enterprise mops up capital funds from the general public by means of an issue of a prospectus, is called ‘pure prospectus
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Pure prospectus method:
Advantages:
• The pure prospectus method of marketing the securities serves as an excellent mode
of disclosure of all the information
pertaining to the issue The method
promotes confidence of investors through transparency and non-discriminatory basis
of allotment
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Pure prospectus method:
Drawbacks:
1. High issue costs
2. Time consuming
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Offer for Sale method:
• Where the marketing of securities takes place through intermediaries, such as
issue houses, stockbrokers and others, it
is a case of ‘Offer for Sale Method’
• Under this method, the sale of securities takes place in two stages
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Offer for Sale method:
• First stage, the issuer company makes an en-block sale of securities to
intermediaries such as the issue houses and share brokers at an agreed price
• Second stage, the securities are re-sold to ultimate investors at a market-related
price The difference between the
purchase price and the issue price
constitutes ‘profit’ for the intermediaries.33
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Offer for Sale method:
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Private Placement Method:
• A method of marketing of securities
whereby the issuer makes the offer of sale
to individuals and institutions privately
without the issue of a prospectus is known
as ‘Private Placement Method’
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Private Placement Method:
Advantages:
1. Less expensive as various types of costs
associated with the issue are borne by
the issue houses and other
intermediaries
2. Placement of securities suits the
requirements of small companies
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Private Placement Method:
Disadvantages:
1. Concentration of securities in a few
hands
2. Depriving the common investors of an
opportunity to subscribe to the issue, thus affecting their confidence level
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Initial Public Offer (IPO) Method:
• The public issue made by a corporate
entity for the first time in its life is called
‘Initial Public Offer’ (IPO)
• Under this method of marketing, securities are issued to successful applicants on the basis of the orders placed by them,
through their brokers
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Initial Public Offer (IPO) Method:
• The job of selling the stock is entrusted to
a popular intermediary, the underwriter
Advantage:
The biggest advantage of this method of
marketing of securities is that there is no
need for the investors to part with the money even before the shares are allotted in his
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Right Issue Method:
• Where the shares of an existing company are offered to its existing shareholders, it takes the form of ‘rights issue’
• Under this method, the existing company issues shares to its existing shareholders
in proportion to the number of shares
already held by them
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Right Issue Method:
Advantages:
• Economy: Rights issue constitutes the
most economical method of raising fresh capital, as it involves no underwriting and brokerage costs
• Further, the expenses by way of
advertisement and administration, etc are
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Right Issue Method:
Drawbacks:
Restrictive: The facility of rights issue is
available only to existing companies and not
to new companies
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Bonus Issues method:
• Where the accumulated reserves and
surplus of profits of a company are
converted into paid up capital, it takes the form of issue of ‘bonus shares’
• It merely implies capitalization of existing reserves and surplus of a company
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Bonus Issues method:
• Advantage:
1. It saves the company enormously of the
hassles of capital issue
2. The issue is free
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Book-building Method:
A method of marketing the shares of a
company whereby the quantum and the price of the securities to be issued will be decided on the basis of the ‘bids’ received from the prospective shareholders by the lead merchant bankers is known as ‘book-building method’
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Book-building Method:
• Under the book-building method, share
prices are determined on the basis of real demand for the shares at various price
levels in the market
• For discovering the price at which issue should be made, bids are invited from
prospectus investors from which the
demand at various price level is noted
The merchant bankers undertake full
responsibility for the issue
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Book-building Method:
Advantages:
1. Reduction in the duration between
allotment and listing
2. Reliable allotment procedure
3. Quick listing in stock exchange possible
4. No price manipulation as the price is
determined on the basis of the bids
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Stock Option or Employee Stock Option Scheme (ESOP):
• A method of marketing the securities of a company whereby its employees are
encouraged to take up shares and
subscribe to it is known as ‘stock option
• It is a voluntary scheme on the part of the company to encourage employees
participation in the company
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Stock Option or Employee Stock Option Scheme (ESOP):
• The scheme also offers an incentive to the employees to stay in the company
• The scheme is particularly useful in the
case of companies whose business
activity is dominantly based on the talent
of the employees, as in the case of
software industry
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Bought-out Deals:
A method of marketing of securities of a
body corporate whereby the promoters of an unlisted company make an outright sale of a chunk of equity shares to a single sponsor
or the lead sponsor is known as ‘bought-out deals’
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Bought-out Deals: Features:
1. Parties:
•. There are three parties involved in the
bought-out deals They are promoters of the company, sponsors and co-sponsors who are generally merchant bankers and investors
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Bought-out Deals: Features:
2 Outright sale:
• Under this arrangement, there is an
outright sale of a chunk of equity shares to
a single sponsor or lead sponsor
3 Sale price:
• The sale price is finalized through
negotiations between the issuing company and the purchaser, the sale being
influenced by such factors as project
evaluation, promoters image and
reputation, current market sentiments,
prospects of off-loading these shares at a future date, etc
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Bought-out Deals: Features:
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Bought-out Deals: Features:
5 Listing:
• The investor- sponsor make a profit, when
at future date, the shares get listed and
higher prices prevail Listing generally
takes place at a time when the company is performing well in terms of higher profits
and larger cash generations from projects