Aramco hires 25 underwriters for its prospective IPO

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) has issued, on Sunday Nov 10, its prospectus for the initial public offering (IPO) of a part of its shares. 

The company named 25 underwriters to cover its IPO as follows: 

1) Citigroup Saudi Arabia

2) Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd. 

3) Goldman Sachs International

4) HSBC Saudi Arabia

5) JP Morgan Securities PLC. 

6) Merrill Lynch Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

7) Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc 

8) NCBC 

9) Samba Capital

10) Al Rajhi Capital

11) Banco Santander SA. 

12) BNP Paribas

13) BOCI Asia Ltd. 

14) Credit Agricole CIB 

15) Deutsche Securities Saudi Arabia

16) EFG Herms Saudi Arabia

17) First Abu Dhabi Bank

18) GIB Capital 

19) Mizuho International PLC.  

20) RBC Europe Ltd. 

21) Riyad Capital

22) Saudi Fransi Capital

23) SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited

24) Société Générale

25) UBS AG London Branch

Saudi Aramco previously announced appointing financial advisors, international coordinators and local and international IPO managers.  

The terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement and the coordination agreement include: 

- Based on the terms and conditions of the offering, selling shareholders undertake to the underwriters to sell the shares of the offering and allot them to: 
  
1) Subscribed institutions participating in the book building process according to the allotment specified by the company, the selling shareholder and the main coordinators. 
  
2) Subscribed retail investors whose subscription requests are accepted from receiving entities. 

- Underwriters and selling shareholders undertake, based on the terms and conditions of the offering, to buy selling shareholders’ shares of the offering that were not part of the subscription of institutions and retail investors in accordance with the offering, and pay the offer price in accordance with the coverage ratios. 
  
The company and selling shareholders undertook to abide by all the provisions of the underwriting agreement covering the offering, whereas the company undertook to abide by all the provisions of the coordination agreement. 
  
Aramco’s IPO underwriting agreement states that selling shareholders should pay the underwriters a fee proportional with the sold shares or on the total value of the offering, in addition to the expenses and costs associated with the offering. 

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