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Dangote revives 8-year-old interest in London Stock Exchange IPO seeking $1bn for DangCem

February 16, 2018927 views0 comments

Dangote Cement Plc might have revived plan to raise fresh capital of $1 billion through the London Stock Exchange.

An ally of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, who does not want to be named, is reported by the Bloomberg news service as saying Dangote has approached investment bankers to discuss a potential U.K. listing.

Once banks have been appointed, it will probably take at least five months to complete the process, one of the people said.

The cement maker is also considering issuing a debut Eurobond, according to two different people familiar with the matter.

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Discussions are ongoing and a listing of Africa’s biggest cement maker may not go ahead, the people said.

“We have not, to the best of my knowledge, taken such a decision,” Anthony Chiejina, Dangote Cement’s told Bloomberg although he did not comment on the talks with bankers.

Fresh capital would enable Dangote Cement to fund expansion plans in sub-Saharan Africa and broaden its base of investors.

It sees London as a more favourable place to attract about $1 billion than in its home base of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, where no company has raised more in an initial public offering than Starcomms Plc’s $796 million in 2008.

Dangote Cement has a free float in Lagos of 14.9 percent and a market valuation of $12.3 billion. It mulled raising equity in London in 2010. At the time, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Morgan Stanley helped it prepare a sale that could have raised as much as $5 billion before the move was abandoned.

The revival of the plan comes as Dangote Cement shares climb to near records as the Nigerian economy recovers from a downturn caused by the 2014 slump in oil prices. The economy of Africa’s most populous nation went into recession in 2016 as government revenue plunged.

Nigerian stocks are up 11 percent this year in dollar terms, the sixth best performance globally according to Bloomberg’s data.

Aliko Dangote has a net worth of $13.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His Dangote Industries Ltd. conglomerate has interests in sugar, flour, and packaged food as well as controlling the cement company. The 60-year-old has repeatedly expressed a desire to bid for London’s Arsenal Football Club and is building a 650,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery near Lagos, which will cost more than $10 billion.

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