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Dangote Refinery Gets $4.1 Billion Share Bids in Top Africa IPO
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EXCLUSIVE Dangote Refinery Gets $4.1 Billion Share Bids in Top Africa IPO Africa’s biggest refinery attracted about 5.85 trillion naira ($4.1 billion) of applications for shares in the continent’s largest public offering to date, almost three times the amount it sought to raise, according to people familiar with the matter. Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE, which aimed to garner at least $1.6 billion in the IPO, received about $1.9 billion in inquiries from investors in its...
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Dangote Refinery Gets $4.1 Billion Share Bids in Top Africa IPO
Africa’s biggest refinery attracted about 5.85 trillion naira ($4.1 billion) of applications for shares in the continent’s largest public offering to date, almost three times the amount it sought to raise, according to people familiar with the matter.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE, which aimed to garner at least $1.6 billion in the IPO, received about $1.9 billion in inquiries from investors in its home country of Nigeria and a further $2.1 billion from prospective international buyers, said the people who declined to be identified because the information is private.