Gerresheimer to Float in Biggest IPO to Date in 2007
- Share offering at 40 euros per share
- Offer volume around 1 billion euros
- Free-float after IPO of 80.6 percent (incl. Greenshoe Option)
Düsseldorf, 8 June 2007 – Gerresheimer AG, a world-leading specialist manufacturer of high quality glass and plastics for the pharma and life science industry, and the selling shareholder BCP Murano II S.à r.l. (BCP Murano), an indirect subsidiary of The Blackstone Group International Limited, together with the joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, today set the offer price for Gerresheimer’s Initial Public Offering at 40 euros per share. The shares are valued at the middle of the pricing range of 37 to 45 euros.
A total of 25.3 million shares were placed in the offer. Of these shares, 11.4 million shares were from a capital increase, 10.6 million shares were offered by BCP Murano and a further 3.3 million shares were offered by BCP Murano to the consortium banks to cover a potential over-allotment (Greenshoe-Option). The placement value therefore amounts to around 1 billion euros (including the over-allotment), making Gerresheimer the biggest IPO to date on the German stock market in 2007. The company will generate gross proceeds of around 456 million euros from the capital increase. Gerresheimer intends to use the proceeds to reduce its financial obligations, thereby enabling it to make future targeted acquisitions and to accelerate its growth rate.
“We are very pleased with the IPO and see the great interest of investors as a confirmation of our growth strategy,” said Dr. Axel Herberg, CEO of Gerresheimer AG. “We want to strengthen our position as one of the world’s leading producers and partners for the pharmaceutical and life science industry.”
The free-float of the company amounts to 80.6 percent, assuming a full exercise of the Greenshoe Option. BCP Murano and the management of Gerresheimer AG have agreed on a lock-up provision according to which they will not sell their remaining shares on the open market during a period of six and 12 months, respectively. The company has also undertaken not to announce, implement or propose at its shareholders meeting a capital increase of authorised capital during this six-month period. These restrictions apply to the distribution of convertible and option debenture bonds as well as to other similar financial measures.
Of the 25.3 million shares, about 95.7 percent will be placed with institutional investors and about 4.3 percent with private investors. The allocation to private investors was carried out according to the Stock Market Commission of Experts’ Principles for the Allocation of Share Issues to Private Investors as published on 7 June 2000 by the German Ministry of Finance. Allocations were made according to uniform criteria for all underwriting banks. Every third order up to an allocation of 50 shares receives full allocation. All orders above this allocation will be allocated with 60 percent.
The shares of Gerresheimer AG have been admitted to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and will be traded for the first time in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 11 June 2007 in the Prime Standard market. The shares are entitled to full dividend for the financial year beginning on 1 December 2006. The company’s shares will be listed under the symbol “GXI”, the ISIN is DE000A0LD6E6.
About Gerresheimer
Gerresheimer currently employs around 9,000 people in 31 locations in Europe, America and Asia. The product range comprises medicine bottles made of glass and plastic as well as complex drug delivery systems. The latter include for example pre-fillable sterile syringes, inhalers and other system solutions for safe dosage and application of medications. The Gerresheimer Group has a leading position in a market characterised by technical and regulatory entry barriers as Gerresheimer’s products must meet the highest quality requirements of international pharmaceutical supervisory authorities.
The Gerresheimer Group generated sales of around EUR 893 million in 2006 on a pro-forma basis, of which around EUR 247 million was attributable to the recently acquired Wilden AG, a European market and technology leader for innovative plastic systems. Pro-forma adjusted EBITDA for the Gerresheimer Group in 2006 totalled around EUR 151 million. In the financial year 2007, sales for the – traditionally weakest – first quarter were around EUR 226 million, and pro-forma adjusted EBITDA was around EUR 40 million.
This publication serves information purposes and constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy securities of Gerresheimer AG. The securities have already been sold.
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