INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Westbridge AIF I offloaded 1.30 crore shares, amounting to a 1.75 per cent stake in AU Small Finance Bank
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Private equity firm WestBridge Capital divested on Wednesday
a 1.7 per cent stake in the AU Small Finance Bank for Rs 845 crore through an open market transaction.
WestBridge Capital, through its
affiliate Westbridge AIF I, sold shares of the Jaipur-based AU Small Finance Bank through a bulk deal on the National Stock Exchange
(NSE).
As per data available, Westbridge AIF I offloaded 1.30 crore shares, amounting to a 1.75 per cent stake in AU Small Finance
Bank.
After the stake sale, the shareholding of WestBridge Capital in the AU Small Finance Bank has declined to 2.07 per cent from 3.82 per
cent.
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs Investments Mauritius I picked up 43.34 lakh shares of the AU Small Finance Bank at an average price of Rs
This took the deal value to Rs 281.71 crore.
Details of other buyers of the AU Small Finance Bank shares could not be ascertained.
Shares
of the AU Small Finance Bank fell 1.25 per cent to close at Rs 656.20 apiece on the NSE.(Only the headline and picture of this report may
have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Jun 20
