Arab Finance: EFG Holding has wrapped up an advisory on the $315 million initial public offering (IPO) of Dubai Taxi Company (DTC) on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), as per an emailed press release on December 7th.
Under the IPO, the firm sold 624.750 million existing shares at AED 1.85 ($0.50) per share for a total of 24.99% of its total issued share capital, implying a market capitalization of AED 4.6 billion ($1.26 billion).
Local, regional, and foreign investors showed strong demand for shares in the IPO, with a total book covered of about 130x for AED 150 billion ($41 billion).
EFG Holding served as a joint bookrunner on the transaction.